Open your photo in Camera Raw.
Last updated on
31 August 2026
Add Glow to your photos
Use Glow to add a soft, luminous quality to your photos by diffusing highlights, blooming light sources, and creating dreamy, atmospheric, or nostalgic looks directly in the Effects panel.
Select Edit > Effects.
Drag the Glow slider to the right to increase the effect. As you raise the value, light blooms outward from the highlights in your photo.
Tip
Select the Eye icon to toggle the effect on and off and compare the before and after.
Select a look from the Style dropdown menu:
- Diffusion: A hazy, film-like softening that spreads across the frame. Great for dreamy landscapes and sunsets.
- Bloom: A soft, even glow across highlights. Ideal for soft, ethereal images such as waterfalls and misty scenes.
- Halation: A colored, retro halo around bright edges and light sources. Suited to neon signs, night scenes, and vintage looks.
Use the sliders to fine-tune the Glow adjustments:
- Range: Sets the tone where Glow is applied, from the brightest highlights to broader tonal ranges.
- Spread: Controls how far the glow radiates from bright areas. Higher values create a wider, softer effect.
- Warmth: Shifts the glow's color toward warmer or cooler tones, letting you match the effect to your scene's lighting. For the Diffusion and Bloom styles, Warmth applies a cool-to-warm range, whereas for Halation, it applies a yellow-to-red range.
Note
You can also add Glow to specific parts of your photo using the Masking tool. The Style, Range, Spread, and Warmth settings are global and shared across all masks, while the Glow amount can be set independently for each mask.
Simulate film grain
The Grain section of the Effects panel has controls for simulating film grain for a stylistic effect reminiscent of particular film stocks. You can also use the Grain effect to mask enlargement artifacts when making large prints.
Together, the Size and Roughness controls determine the character of the grain. Check grain at varying zoom levels to ensure that the character appears as desired.
Amount
Controls the amount of grain applied to the image. Drag to the right to increase the amount. Set to zero to disable grain.
Size
Controls grain particle size. Specifying a value of 25% or higher can cause some image blurring.
Roughness
Controls the regularity of the grain. Drag to the left to make the grain more uniform; drag to the right to make the grain more uneven.
Apply a postcrop vignette
To apply a vignette to a cropped image for artistic effect, use the Post Crop Vignetting feature.
Crop your image. See Crop images.
In the Post Crop Vignetting area of the Effects panel, choose a Style.
Highlight Priority
Applies the postcrop vignette while protecting highlight contrast but can lead to color shifts in darkened areas of an image. Appropriate for images with important highlight areas.
Color Priority
Applies the postcrop vignette while preserving color hues but can lead to loss of detail in bright highlights.
Paint Overlay
Applies the postcrop vignette by blending original image colors with black or white. Appropriate when a soft effect is desired but can reduce highlight contrast.
Refine the effect by adjusting any of the following sliders:
Amount
Positive values lighten the corners, negative values darken them.
Midpoint
Higher values restrict the adjustment to the area closer to the corners, lower values apply the adjustment to a larger area away from the corners.
Roundness
Positive values make the effect more circular, negative values make the effect more oval.
Feather
Higher values increase the softening between the effect and its surrounding pixels, lower values reduce the softening between the effect and its surrounding pixels.
Highlights
(Available for a Highlight Priority or Color Priority effect when Amount is a negative value) Controls the degree of highlight “punch” in bright areas of an image, such as in the glow of a streetlight or other bright light source.
Dehaze
Adobe Camera Raw allows you to easily decrease or increase the amount of haze or fog in a photograph. Click 
in the Adjustment panel on the right to view the Basic panel and adjust the Dehaze slider control.
Amount
Controls the amount of haze in a photograph. Drag to the right to remove haze; drag to the left to add haze.
Radial Filter
Radial filters in Adobe Camera Raw direct attention to specific portions of the image. To know more, see Radial Filter in Camera Raw.
Note: Dehaze is now available as a local adjustment. While working with the Radial Filter, Graduated Filter, or the Adjustment Brush, adjust the Dehaze slider control. For more information, see Make local adjustments in Camera Raw.
