RE: Soft Focus Filter in PS ?

[herschel <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A good imitation is got by duplicating the layer, Gaussian-blurring it a lot and then changing the blending mode to  “SCREEN”  You can then reduce the layer opacity and make more copies of the layer… play a bit.

Experiment with how much blur and how many  very thin layers.

 

herschel

 

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From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lea Murphy
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:12 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: Soft Focus Filter in PS ?

 

Mark,

 

I'm not sure how to ping you but I'd like to have the action.

 

Mind sending it along to 

 

lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

?

 

Thanks so much,

Lea

 

On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:58 AM, mlent@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I wrote an action that's on the Adobe web site that makes a soft focus automatically. I'd be happy to give it to anyone here for a soft focus and a softened edge for an image. It's been downloaded more than 200k times on Adobe, so I feel like it works pretty well. ANyway, ping me if you want a copy and I'll e-mail it to you.

 

Cordially,

 

Mark Lent

 

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From: Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
For soft focus one thing you can do is duplicate your layer and apply a gaussian blur to your liking then erase away what you want to have in sharp focus.

 

For arm and facial hair I recommend waxing before the shoot. Ha.

 

I use the portraiture filter from here:

 

http://www.imagenomic.com/

 

It's not free ($169.95 usd) but it is amazingly good.

 

Good luck.

 

Lea

 

On Nov 30, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Kostas Papakotas wrote:

Hello all!

I will be needing your contribution on 2 photoshop tips.

1. How do emulate the Soft Focus Filter effect in PS? Select and use Blur? Any special adjustments?

2. How do deal with facial and arm hair on ladies? I have tried both levels and selective color (varying the intensity of black) but the way I did it was not selective and delicate enough, affecting the skin too. Any “nip tuck” magic here?

And you’ve guess it. I have shoot a relative’s engagement ceremony.

thanks, Kostas

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