PhotoShop 6 Photo-Retouching Secrets by Scott Kelby suggests this method:
1. Open the image
2. Click and drag the image layer to the new layer icon in the layers
palette, making a duplicate of the original photo.
3. With the new layer selected, go to the filters menu and choose Gaussian
Blur. Try a Radius setting somewhere in the range of 4-10 pixels, depending
on image resolution (lower for lower (72ppi) resolution images, higher for
higher ones)
4. In the layers palette, change the blend mode from "normal" to "lighten",
then adjust layer opacity until the effect is where you'd like it.
Judging by the photos in the book, this gives the kind of "blurry
highlights" effect. No extra filters required.
BTW, this is a great book, full of quick and dirty tricks with Photoshop and
aimed at photographers, rather than graphic artists. And that's *all* it's
got. NO section on "Using Photoshop" which, assuming one has a manual, one
doesn't need.
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Scott Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Williams [mailto:skipwilliamsom@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [OM] Photoshop enquiry
You might want to check Google at
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=photoshop+soft+focus and
http://groups.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&q=photoshop+soft+focus
Skip
>From: John Hudson <jahudson@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Photoshop enquiry
>
>Does anyone know if there is a feature in Photoshop 6 which will apply
>the same effect to a sharp in focus digital image as will a soft focus
>filter on the camera lens to what would otherwise be a sharp and in
>focus negative?
>
>John Hudson
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