Equivalent to 'Clarity' in PS ACR?

Hi again

In the past months, I have migrated a large part of my basic image adjustment tasks in Bridge/ACR with very good and reproducible results. But sometimes I still need PS for more difficult work. When I return to Photoshop one Tools CAB that I miss the most is the setting of clarity. How we would try to reproduce this tool in Photoshop?

I think clarity of ACR as a medium tone adjustment contrast via light sharpening.  (It is really more than that in the cab, of course, but this approach offers a starting point for what you could try in PS).  Simulate in PS would mean to help strengthening of contrast (or decrease) tools and by limiting their effect to the midtones.  You could try just the Unsharp mask with a small amount and a high RADIUS: duplicate your layer, apply the usm for the duplicate layer (try 15% amount and RADIUS 100) then compel sharpening midtones, use of layers so mix option.   You can take this further by using overlay combining mode and setting the high pass filter with mixture so to produce a midtone contrast boost.

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