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Smoothing with High Pass

Smoothing with High Pass - Photoshop Tutorial

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Smoothing with High Pass

I've saved my changes as the GBlur elf. psd and as you may recall we've got this GBlur layer, named for Gaussian Blur that where it turned on as it is now, it not only smooths over the surface details inside the image, but it also elevates the saturation levels and it tends to fill in shadows and result in overly bright highlights as well. So I was telling you that a friend of mine passed along a technique, which I'm going to pass along to you, because it's really great. The friend in question is Katrin Eismann, who is a well-known Photoshop expert out there and she was on my weekly audio podcast called Martini Hour, that you can get to at deke.com if you're so inclined, and we were doing a little bit of a tips and tricks show and she came out with this one and I tell you, it's an absolutely great trick, and the idea is you can fill in these skin imperfections essentially, so smooth over the surface details without modifying either the saturation levels or the ultimate level of…

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