I've printed this shot a couple of ways. In 8x10 size it's 755 ppi. Cropped tighter and printed at 11x14, it's 400 ppi. What kind of radius, blur percentage, and opacity would you use on the 400ppi version to achieve a general smoothing of skin tones? Paul
Herb Chong wrote: > > Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >While we're thinking digital darkroom, how many PDMLers use a Gaussian > blur layer for portraits? I've just started working with this, and I'm > wondering if others would like to share their numbers. On 150 megabyte > files I've been doing the blur layer at 8 pixels blur radius at 100%. > I'm setting the opacity at 50%. Of course I erase much of the blur > layer. The results print nice; the blur on skin tones is very subtle. > But I'd like to know what others are doing. It seems there are so many > variales here that the best solution might be elusive. That of course is > true of many PhotoShop operations. > Paul< > > the numbers depend heavily on the resolution of your image. the number of > megabytes is a nice number for costing things but it doesn't tell me > anything about resolution. > > Herb....
