Texture vs Clarity vs Dehaze (Lightroom Mobile Effects Sliders)

Three of Lightroom Mobile's Effects-tab sliders each manipulate a distinct property of a photo, and confusing them leads to muddled edits:

Texture — accentuates or smooths fine edges/lines with no shift in tonal values or color. Safe to push hard (demoed to 60 on a detail-rich photo, 40 on a landscape) since it doesn't affect brightness or saturation.
Clarity — shifts tonal values and adds midtone contrast, giving a 'crispy' feel when increased. Not recommended for portraits (the crispy look is unflattering on skin). Reversible: dragged negative it produces a softer, 'ethereal' look — see Inverse Clarity + Texture Compensation (Ethereal Landscape Technique).
Dehaze — the most compound of the three: affects both tonal contrast/haze and color saturation simultaneously. Pushed too far it looks unnatural; apply subtly (demoed at 5).

All three are bidirectional — the 'correct' direction depends on the image and desired mood, not a fixed intensifying default. One creator's habitual ratio across the three is captured in Diagonal-Line Ordering Heuristic (Texture > Clarity > Dehaze). The Effects tab also includes Vignette as Subliminal (Should-Be-Invisible) Eye Guidance, a fourth slider with a distinct, non-detail purpose (eye-direction rather than edge/tone/color manipulation).

Negative Dehaze for Glow/Bloom

Dehaze is usually pulled positive to cut through haze, but dragged negative inside a local mask it produces a soft glow/bloom rather than added contrast. Used to make a fabricated light source (see Simulated Sun / Light Source via Radial Gradient + Negative Dehaze) look like it's physically bleeding light into the lens — an underused move relative to how often positive dehaze and clarity get reached for.

Из тем: Lightroom Mobile: Masking, Sliders & Simulated Light