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Soft-Filter Plugin Tutorial

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Soft-Filter photo software and photoshop plugin for editing and restoration

How to master Soft filtering with our photoshop


plugin
Now you can do traditional lens soft-filtering in your favorite photo software with this plugin for photoshop and other
photo and graphic software. The plugin does exactly the same as a traditional lens soft filter. It lets you adjust both
the strength and the softness. Use it for traditional softening or noise filtering.
Power Retouche Photoshop plug-ins are also for Paint Shop Pro, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Fireworks and other
graphic software or photo software for photo editing, retouching and restoration (Mac & Win) see list

Soft Filter plugin


Benefits
of the plugin

Create that intimate soft look of traditional lens soft filters


Filter out noise
Set the filter to any desired strength or effect

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Soft Filter
filter controls

The Soft Filter filter plugin works with these image modes (Windows and Mac)...
8 & 16 bit / channel: RGB, Grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.

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This is the Soft Filter plug-ins control panel. Click on


the photo or the links to see the plug-in at full size.

See Windows plugin


See Mac plugin

The filter has two main controls:


1. Effect % - the intensity of the softening.
2. Spread - the size of the softening.
In addition you can target the softening to lights,
midtones and darks or apply a graduated effect.

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Example The Soft Filter plugin is an


exact digital equivalent of
the classic lens soft filters.

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Soft-Filter photo software and photoshop plugin for editing and restoration

The Soft Filter


Effect

These are the main controls.

Spread

Effect % determines how strong the soft filter should be.


Spread determines the size of the soft haze.
The photo to the right was filtered below at various effect levels, but with the spread size 10
in all cases. A spread of 10 would normally be considered too high for such a small image,
but for the sake of illustration it is fine.
Notice the spread and fade-out of the haze in the effect 100% example. It matches exactly
the fade-out and spread of traditional lens soft-filters.
Like the traditional lens soft filters, you can use this filter to create a romantic and warm
mood in the photo or as a noise filter.

Effect 25
Spread 10

Effect 50
Spread 10

Effect 80
Spread 10

Effect 100
Spread 10

Retouch levels
Retouch levels

The three slider Lights, Midtones and Darks are common to most Powerretouche filters and they adjust the level of
retouching applied to the respective brightness levels. In other words with our soft filter, you can for example soften the
lights more than the shadows.
The following three examples illustrate Effect = 100, Spread = 10, but applied solely to either lights, midtones or darks. Of
course in parctical use one would combine various levels of all three, but for the sake of illustration...

Lights only

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Midtones only

Darks only

Soft-Filter photo software and photoshop plugin for editing and restoration

Graduated effect
These controls are common for many of the Power Retouche
plug-ins. Using graduated effect will cause the filter to apply it's
filtering at full strength in one side of the image and then fade
the effect out towards the other side. You can change direction
by right clicking the preview. Midpoint will shift the balance
between how large an area will be filtered at full strength and
how much will have a faded out effect. Contrast will change the
accelleration and spread of the fade-out.
In this example we applied a graduated effect towards the bottom, setting midpoint low. This retouch created a depth-offield by softening the foregound. To create a look more of blur than softness, as in this case, set the effect high and the
size low.

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