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[Colin Southern]

Just trying out some new processing techniques ... what do you think?

[Donald]

Just trying out some new processing techniques ... what do you think?

Works for me. There's a lovely clarity in the image.

What is it that you're doing that's new?

[Colin Southern]

Thanks Donald,

Basically it's a technique that varies the softening depending on the tone, but with "manual over-ride" for areas that need to be sharp (like eyes etc).

[Steve S]

I think it looks very good colin. The skin looks soft yet plenty of detail. The lighting is excellent as well. Care to explain the technique in a little more detail ?

[Colin Southern]

I think it looks very good colin. The skin looks soft yet plenty of detail. The lighting is excellent as well. Care to explain the technique in a little more detail ?

Thanks Steve,

The "crux" of it is ...

- Select entire image

- Copy to clipboard

- Duplicate the layer

- Add mask to top layer

- Paste image into mask

- Load mask as selection

- Apply gaussean blur

- Reduce Opacity of blurred layer

- Deselect

- Erase portions of image that should be sharp (eyes, brows, lips etc)