SUMMARY
Gary McIntyre presents a repeatable editing technique in Camera Raw designed to add spatial depth to flat landscape raw files. Instead of using contrast or saturation sliders, the method involves dividing the image into foreground, midground, and background zones. Each zone is then adjusted separately using linear and radial gradients to reconstruct the scene's natural dimension. This zonal approach, focusing on building depth rather than fixing flatness, can be applied to various compositions and conditions.
TAKEAWAYS
A Camera Raw technique addresses flat landscape photos by adding spatial depth.
The method involves editing foreground, midground, and background zones separately.
Layered linear and radial gradients are used to adjust color and light for each zone.
This approach reconstructs dimension without relying on plugins.