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Soft Portrait Effect?
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Hey All
This may be a rather stupid question, but has anyone got a technique to make the soft portrait effect you see in studios and stuff?
Let me know and show examples if you have them.
~Josh
Posted at 12:23PM, 3 October 2007 PDT
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I like to achieve that when shooting through the camera, some people seem to use radial blur on photoshop 4 it...
You can purchage a soft focus filter where you attach it to the lens, using vaseline, 1 of those plastic shower caps where oyu get from hotels, transparent plastic bags, breathing on the lens... works too =) i use this methods for that effect lol Now you need a better photoshop user if you want to know how o do it on the desktop
Posted 57 months ago.
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I find the effect somewhat schmaltzy - it's not to my tastes - but if I ever am required to do it, I do the following: duplicate the entire photograph as a layer in Photoshop, and then use Gaussian blur on it. Then blend the blurred layer with the original layer to the extent that you wish the effect to be visible. Hope this helps!
Posted 57 months ago.
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also, make sure you mask the eyes and lips obviously.
Posted 57 months ago.
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There are many different ways of accomplishing that look. Here is a site that has some directions on one way of doing it in PP (link). Another way is by doing an Orton type effect (you can find that by doing a search). Here is an example of one that my wife (Lauren) did a couple months ago of my sister and her fiance.
Ben
Posted 57 months ago.
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Those effects are great for spice and diversity. Just don't make it a trade mark. Ppl get jaded over it rather quickly.
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