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Dreamy Focus Effect for People and Landscapes
This is an effect I get asked about a lot, because I use it a lot. The particular thing I get
asked is, “How do you get that look where your image looks sharp, but soft at the same
time?” Well, it's actually really simple, but don't tell anybody it's this simple, because I'd
prefer that people thought I had to pull off some serious Photoshop magic to make this hap-
pen. LOL!
Step One:
The sharpness of this effect comes from sharpening the image right up front, so I usually
save this effect for when I'm about to save the file (in other words, I usually save the
sharpeningfortheend,butinthiscase,there'sanothermovethathappensafterthesharpen-
ing, so let's start with the sharpening first). Go under the Filter menu, under Sharpen, and
choose
Unsharp Mask
. When the dialog appears, enter 120% for the Amount, set the Ra-
dius to 1.0, and set the Threshold to 3 for some nice punchy sharpening. Click OK.
