Week 30

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Have you wanted to soften a photo, but get frustrated at losing the detail?

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It has the ability to be applied in batch, and you can always edit and tweak the results after you run it.

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The one on the left is from Skocko's tweet. He wanted me to try out my command on something more geometric. The one on the right is the result of it! I could tweak it more if I wanted, considering it is all smart filters.

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Skocko also said to try it out on stock imagery, so here is one of the first ones I'm testing the command on.

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This one didn't work so well, I'm thinking from the high contrast in luminescence.

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This turned out the best so far. Completely worked with this photo!

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I did edit the blur strength and boosted the saturation in this one, but it was a very fast edit, because the command got me in the ballpark of what I had imagined a soft version of the photo to look like.

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Testing it on faces was important. It made me realize that eyecolour will be lost with this type of softening. The blue eyes have been turned to a sepia. I might need to find out a way to correct this, possibly with a mask, so I can include it in the instructions file of my action.

Fixed! I just used a low opacity, soft brush to paint on the filter mask, stopping the path blur from affecting the eye colour.

A new effect! This action's working title is called Cyx. The Cyx effect smoothes surfaces.

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The original is on top and the new version is beneath. I also am making some new presentation commands, this is an idea that I am going to automate.

Here is a slider showing off my change. I found a great site called Juxtapose, and it is super awesome! I hosted my images on my old (dead) blogger site.

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I tried out a smooth command I made to go along with the Cyx effect.