PRE|SETS
Equatorial air is thick with water. Short wavelengths scatter, the sky goes milky, and distance loses its contrast. Most presets fight that with dehaze and end up with a sky that never happened. These do the opposite. Humid Glare desaturates the blue band to say what the air did, Milky Sky lifts the toe and accepts the flattened distance, Vapour Wall keeps the haze when the haze is the picture.
The day runs in three legs. Morning is sky: Vapour Light firms contrast only a little, Steam Air lets the curve toe account for the raised black point, Lagoon Haze takes still water pale rather than blue. Midday is sun: Overhead Sun and Vertical Sun open the short shadows a zenith sun leaves, Palm Shade grades the high-frequency light through leaves with texture instead of clarity, Leaf Sweat and Leaf Gloss pull the highlights hard so a wet leaf stays a specular sheet.
Afternoon is shade. Canopy Damp pushes the tint toward magenta because light through a closed canopy is green. Leaf Sap keeps the extra saturation of wet vegetation in the green band alone. Fern Shade turns the aqua hue so the shade never goes cyan. Forest Damp and Mangrove Light sit the grading wheels in the green arc for the floor and the tidal forest. Humid Shade is for a subject lit by nothing but scattered green.
Apply one and let the weather stay. The sliders are all there if you change your mind.
