Haze Removal

[Egmont]

I took some rather nice pictures in and of Bavaria, but with it came some annoying mountain haze. Is there a program, plug-in etc. designed that addresses this problem or does anyone know of a tutorial link?

TIA
Egmont

[Roger_Cavanagh]

I came across this the other day:

http://www.lonestardigital.com/photoshop_quicktips.htm

Basically, the technique is apply USM with large radius:

low strength: 20%, 30, 4
hi strength: 20%, 60, 4

It certainly had an effect on some of my images, although much more noticeable in the near and middle distance than mountain haze. Let us know how it works.

Regards,

Roger

[Egmont]

Roger,

Thanks for the reply. It works as far as sharpness is concerned, but does little for the haze/fog. I had some success with contrast/brightness, but like to have it cleaner.

Regards,
Egmont

[ThiTran]

Check out the Retinex technology at http://dragon.larc.nasa.gov/retinex/pao/news/. There're a couple pictures that they reduced smoke and fog from them.

You can find the company that will market the program at http://www.truview.com/

Thi

[Egmont]

Thi,

Thanks, I was looking for that company, having seen these pictures some time ago.

Thanks again

Egmont

[sasc]

If you have Photoshop try the auto contrast. It can often improve haze drastically. somewhere I read about this and that it doesnt really just do a contrast change.