Clarity & Structure in PS

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Is it possible to get the clarity and structure look in Photoshop CC without using ACR or plug ins? Just curious.
 
You can push up midtone contrast using unsharp mask sharpening. Use a low radius and a high amount. Any particular reason why you don't want to use ACR?
 
As said in orig post, I'm just curious. I do use clarity in LR and ACR plus structure in Tonality Pro and SEP2. I have never seen any reference to getting the same effect just using PS.
 
I've got PS CC 2014, sorry to sound dim, but what is ACR and which plugs ins (and how do you get them)?
I tend to use the unsharp mask for clarity.

Also, what does the radius do in the unsharp mask? Radius is obviously all over PS, and I just wonder what it means.

(Sorry, I don't wish to sound like I'm trying to hijack the thread).
 
ACR is the built in raw editor in photoshop, it's refered to as a plug-in but it is built in. You can add other plug-ins to do all kinds of things, think of them as a filter (thats where they usually show up)
ACR can be used for editing jpegs and tiffs as well as raw file.
Radius is essentially how many pixles are "sharpened" each side of an edge. Amount is how much "sharpening" is applied.
 
swanseamale47 said:
ACR is the built in raw editor in photoshop, it's refered to as a plug-in but it is built in. You can add other plug-ins to do all kinds of things, think of them as a filter (thats where they usually show up)
ACR can be used for editing jpegs and tiffs as well as raw file.
Radius is essentially how many pixles are "sharpened" each side of an edge. Amount is how much "sharpening" is applied.
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Thank you, Wayne. (y)
 
"HiraLoam" (High Radius Low Amount) in the Unsharp Mask will give a vague analog to Clarity as indicated by Swanseamale.

Structure is a little trickier, and involves both local and tonal range applied contrast. It's doable using the same approach as above but on masked layers restricted to either Lower/Middle/Upper contrast ranges or the 4 quartertones. There are a bunch of ways to generate masks for tone ranges, there's a good explanation and provided action for you dissect here though: http://www.cookseytalbottgallery.com/photo_blog_article.php?blRecordNumber=38

Once you've got the image masks, you can use them to apply any effect you care to any particular luminance band in the image.
 
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