Photoshop Resource Center

With a soft focus effect, is highlighting the blurred and diffuse. When creating soft focus in the camera with a soft focus filter or lens, is that whites, highlights that blend in the darker areas.

With the traditional darkroom printing, when a soft focus filter used over the lens, the highlights of the negative are the bright parts of the film. These areas represent clear shadow portions of the image. Thus, with soft focus created in the printing stage, is the portion of the shadow of the image that Blur and spread into areas of the image clearer.

The effect is reversed.
This would be the same movie in color or black and white.

The results can be very different and Photoshop are accomplished in different ways.

1. Open an image, like a portrait.
2. Go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur.
   The image must be blurred at this stage too, so entering a higher value as 30, although this may depend on the resolution of the image.
3. Go to Edit> Fade Gaussian Blur.
4. Change the Normal mode to Lighten.
5. The amount of blur can be controlled here, so reduce the opacity to 90%. OK.
   This is the kind of effect achieved when a soft focus filter used in the camera lens.
6. Open the History palette and click the Create New icon snapshot in the bottom of the palette.
7. Even in the History palette, click the open state, which has the image back to before applying the Gaussian Blur.
8. Use Ctrl + F / Cmd + F to reapply the filter.
9. Go to Edit> Transitional Gaussian Blur.
10. Change the mode to darken.
11. Reduce Opacity to 80%. OK.
    This is the kind of effect achieved when a soft focus filter used on the lens of the enlarger when printing a negative.
12. Open the History palette and click the icon at the bottom to create a snapshot of the image.
13. Toggle between 1 and Snapshot Snapshot 2 for compare the two images.

No images can save their state, while the story is active.
One seems more romantic and one can look in a bad mood or with the right subject may seem sinister.

Different blending modes can really transform an image and produce results interesting, changing the appearance of an image.

Many more special effects Photoshop tips can be found through target = "_blank" title = "pious"> Photoshop in One day

About the Author:

Duncan Wherrett is an experienced professional photographer and Photoshop instructor.

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – How to Make Two Versions of Soft Focus in Photoshop With Quite Different Effects

Photoshop – Dark Art

Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual $25.00 Packed with information, Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual has all the secrets to editing photos and creating superior documents in Photoshop. Author and graphics pro Lesa Snider objectively explains how you can take advantage of all the powerful features, and get the results you want. Praise"I just saw Photoshop World instructor Lesa Snider's new book, Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual, and i...

Pixelmator [Old Version] $14.95 Create Exceptional Photos and Stunning Images Pixelmator is an easy-to-use fast and powerful image editing program that has everything you need to enhance edit and transform your photos. Made for the Mac Pixelmator takes advantage  of built-in iPhoto support and one-click access to iSight . Use layer-based image editing color management filters and special effects to quickly achieve impressiv...