Thanks Bill. I'll try that. I haven't gone that far with it, but this sounds like fun.
William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Stenquist > Subject: Blur layer for portraits in PhotoShop > > > 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. > > Try this: Make a new layer via copy, gaussian blur it ti it is > mush, then reduce the opacity of it till it looks good. Erase > the eyes, flatten and off you go. > > William Robb
