The soft glow or Orton effect has been a popular one for landscape photographers for years. But it was always a pain to add. You needed layers, filters, or panels and even then it wasn’t very good and didn’t have many customizing options. Well, Adobe added a new Glow effect to Camera Raw in version 18.6 (August 2026). It’s got some really solid features and ways to adjust it and we’ll take a look in this week’s video.
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Thanks, I get the feeling a number of the recent feature that are in CR will appearin LRC in October at the usual major update from Adobe. Will you be exspading on of these updtes in the Photoshop Summitt in September?