PHOTOSHOP QUICK TIP: A Simplified Approach to Removing Light and Dark Halos

Today I'll be sharing a simple technique to remove those annoying halos in your edited images. Follow along as I guide you through the process step by step to make your photos look professional and polished. Even though it may not work on every image, it has been successful in many cases.

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[mariolombardi]

Thank Dave - also appreciate you showing the reason why halos are created.

[keithpinn]

Thanks Dave for sharing this quick & easy tip.!

[pauloricardoferreira]

Those were precious tips. Thanls for that, Mr. Kelly.
Best regards from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.

[StephenEhrlichPhotos]

This is an easy technique to follow. Time consuming of course. But results are worth the effort. Thanks Dave!

[gbdr_ps_fan]

Dave, that was to the point and very simple. Thanks.

[chepo]

Nice video Dave! That little trick with the blend mode of the tool is a gem. This technique really showed me how clean an image can be if you pay attention to those little details like halos; especially if you do lots of print work. The other technique using the edge masks you did a couple of videos back is another nice one also. Thanks again.

[halstewart]

Good Tip. Thank you. I enjoy your videos.

[marlajulien]

Outstanding, this tip will be very handy indeed thanks Dave

[pifpif]

Thank you Dave for this great tip, it's very useful!

[stevenrobinsonpictures]

Good tutorial, I already use this method and it is great.

[perrysmithphotography]

Thanks for posting this video/tutorial Dave...This is a huge time saver and it will go a long way in reducing my periods and liberal usage of colorful adjectives when having to rid these halos from my edited files!

[Raf.Coutinho]

@The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly, I personnally really prefer to work on a blank layer everytime it is possible. That's why with this kind of method I keep the stamp tool in normal blend mode and set the blank layer to the desired blend mode instead. Sure, this way you can't work with only one layer for both darks & lights halos ; but having two separate ones is great to work back an forth without having to change the blend mode for the tool. This also helps keeping project file size smaller.
Thank you for the videos and keep on the great work :)

[ptenner]

Thank you so much Mr Kelly. This is by far the best video I have ever come across for cleaning up halos. Up until now, I have strictly used Lightroom Classic as my photo editor, but your video makes this a straightforward enough process that I feel confident to push photos from Lightroom to Photoshop to work on halos. Your video is quite timely as I just got back from a winter trip to Yellowstone.

[donaldbernhardt]

Another fabulous video! I have many older photos taken with inexpensive cameras. The files are jpgs and the cameras probably over sharpened and compressed the photos. Your technique removes halos like magic!

[thomastuorto]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I'm a AP user & it worked exactly the same. I understand how the halos got there but am surprised with todays AI & Selections that they are there in at all. Good to see you have to work a little at something since I enjoy the process of doing so when in the mood.
Signed, the lightweight post processor.

[josdenis]

Great tip indeed! I often use the minimum technique (filters, other, minimize).

[micheldominique]

Hi Dave Method very effective to delete halos. Thanks.

[geoffreykingston]

Great tip - and oddly, this is my preferred method of removing halos. Less convoluted and gives plenty of control. As mentioned, not always perfect and time intensive but I find it by far the easiest solution. Never thought about dak halos. Something to look out for in future.

[stanleyjacobson]

Hi Dave, I might give a bit of a word of caution I learned the hard way. There is a "darken" and a "darken color" mode for cloning. "Darken Color" is the one you want to remove light halos. I used the Darken Color mode to great satisfaction a time or two. Then there was a long period of time where I did not have to remove halos. All I remembered was "darken" and it did not work. Diddled around with it to no avail. Then by pure chance I stumbled on "Darken Color" a bit lower on the drop down and I was back in business. Thanks again for your video. Once again I learned a little no idea there were dark halos. All the best.