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Quick Portrait Enhancement - Method 1
This simple technique produces a warm glow, softening details and diminishing noise and artifacts. It works especially well on portraits, but don't hesitate to try it on other types of images.

Quick Portrait Enhancement - Method 2
This technique mimics a diffusion filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines and wrinkles, and intesifying the colors. It's great for portraits and also works well for reducing JPEG artifacts.

Ethereal Effect
A soft blur effect that works especially well on portraits. Beginner level for Adobe Photoshop.

Midnight Filter Effect
Explore a dreamy sort of effect that rescues an otherwise poor photo. Beginner level for Adobe Photoshop.

Soft Focus for Landscapes
"Discussion and tutorial on applying soft focus to landscape images. Photoshop actions for soft focus effects are available for downloading."

Soft Light
Apply a soft, diffused lighting effect to a photographic image in Photoshop 4.0 or higher.

Two Chairs
This tutorial describes how to transform a quite literal image to a mysterious one that suggests the movement of missing actors and a piece of a story.

Wooded Planet
Create a planet with trees on it out of a normal photo using the polar coordinates filter.