Soft Focus

[essence]

I am trying to use find a way to give my photos a beautiful glow (I am not sure of any actual terminology).

The glow I am trying to achieve, I found in Jodi Frye's Gallery. There is an image of girl (your daughter??) with a caption "...she 'just' turned seven". This image has the glow, as does the one where you used what you called "Jodi's Soft Sepia". I have experimented with several filters and layers, but I can't achieve the look.

I would love some direction.

By the way, Jodi, I absolutely love your work. It is amazing!!

[Wendy]

Hi Tiffany,

... and welcome to the forum

Jodi work is beautiful and she is so talented, she should be along later and I'm sure that she will pick up this thread and help you.


Wendy

[Jodi Frye]

Well it's really all about the look of my daughter...she 'glows' and of course a little elements help

Duplicate image, apply gaussian blur..around 22, set blend mode to overlay. Apply a hue/saturation adjustment layer and reduce saturation to around -10 (you'll have to eyeball this depending on your image ) OR you can choose to select the 'colorize' option as i did with my images to give in a monotoned look. Afterwards apply a levels adjustment layer if need to lighten it up a bit. Just play around. Nothing is ever set in stone when it comes to following other people's steps.

[Wendy]

Jodi ..

I didn't know that one ... just tried it out and it gives a wonderful effect. I have put it in my tips book

Thank you ...

Wendy

[essence]

Thank you very much. I already tried it and it looks fantastic.

This is a great forum!! I am so glad that I stumbled across it today!!

[Jodi Frye]

Hey, glad it worked for you ! Ya it's always fun to play with the gaussian blur...my most favoritist filter of all

[Jodi Frye]

Wendy, it's amazing how many plug-ins are for sale for Photoshop...most of the stuff we can do in Elements !

We should go into business :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Patricia Heere]

Thank you Jodi. I have a couple of old photos I want to try to get that effect on.

Pat

[JennB]

Hi Jodi,

I wish you can do one of the tutorials on the site sometimes! Is there any way we can suggest that to someone? Maybe Dave Cross will come across this thread and make one credited to you...I think that would be the coolest thing!

[Jodi Frye]

Jenn, I would need the screen recording software to do this. At the moment we are trying to figure out how we are going to get fuel oil to heat this house for the winter. :roll: But thanks for the encouragement !