Is intense Lightroom cheating

[robgo2]

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I never use the clarity slider, neither in Lightroom nor in Capture One, I don't even think about it.

I have always felt that Clarity in LR/ACR is weak and poorly implemented. C1's is much better and can enhance images when used judiciously.

[Phil4369]

I have always felt that Clarity in LR/ACR is weak and poorly implemented. C1's is much better and can enhance images when used judiciously.

 

You're probably right. I'm fairly new to C1, used LR for a long time and came to hate this slider! Thanks.

[Sandbites]

Thank you everyone for the replies and encouragement, i agree that as they are my pic then I can edit them however i want to, specially since i take them for myself and not for business or for reportage.  

Every time i post-edit my raw pictures I fight the urge to excessively use Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation. I guess i just have to fight the urge some more.

[Bart van Hofwegen]

If you crank up saturation and contrast and look at that for a minute or so, you get used to it. So much so that dialing down those things can make the picture look "dull" in comparison. A good advice Dan Margulis once wrote was to back off, do not look at the picture for a while and then come back to it at a later moment. You may be surprised how "over the top" it may then look, and that is the moment to dial down.