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🌈 A glowing ring 🧫 A clear zone
haloing

haloing

7.8
A bright or colored ring that appears around objects in a photo after editing
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : halo
  • Many photographers strive to achieve soft haloing around lights to add warmth to their images.

Examples

  • Both color and contrast are affected, but it's the banding and the Halos around bright objects because of the local dimming that are truly distracting.

  • So the one thing that I'm going to say to, you know, some Pixel people at this point is the haloing from point light sources.

  • In the photograph, the sunset created a beautiful haloing effect around the mountain's peak.

  • The artist enhanced the image with a haloing technique, giving the subjects a glowing appearance.

Synonyms

bloom
vshaloing
  • Specialized
1 7.9

A soft glow around the bright parts of a picture

is a sharper colored ring around an object rather than a soft light bleed

Surface Forms

haloing singular
haloings plural

Morphology

haloing = halo (transparent) = halo + ing

Formed by the productive gerund/participle suffix '-ing' added to the verb 'halo', with meaning directly derived as the act or process of producing a halo.

Etymology

Haloing comes from halo, a word for a 'ring' or 'circle' of light you can see around the sun or around a saint's head. So haloing describes that bright ring or glow appearing around objects in photos when editing or optical effects create it.