PhixitDehaze a photo
Distant mountains, city views and shots through glass often look milky. Dehaze estimates the haze from the photo itself and removes it, bringing back depth and color.
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How to dehaze a photo
- Choose or drop a photo. It opens with Dehaze set to 40.
- Raise Dehaze until the haze lifts; lower it if shadows turn too dark.
- Add Clarity for extra mid-tone punch, then save from Export.
Good to know
- Negative Dehaze adds haze instead, for a soft, atmospheric look.
- Dehaze darkens shadows a little; raise Shadows to compensate.
- Negative Clarity softens skin and gives a dreamy look.
Questions
How does dehaze work?
Haze adds a veil of one color, usually the sky. Phixit measures that color in the photo and subtracts it, more strongly where the haze is thickest.
What is clarity?
Contrast applied to medium-sized details such as textures and edges, rather than to the overall brightness range.
Will it fix a photo taken through a dirty window?
It reduces the milky veil. It cannot remove spots or reflections; the Heal brush helps with spots.
Related tools
- Adjust contrastAdd punch to flat photos or soften harsh ones with a contrast control that protects highlights and shadows.
- Sharpen an imageMake soft photos crisper with an unsharp mask that boosts edges without adding halos.
- Color correctionCorrect exposure, contrast, white balance and saturation with the same controls photographers use.
- Shadows and highlightsLift dark faces against a bright sky and recover bright clouds without flattening the photo.