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Photoshop Photo Effects : Manipulating Focus, Adding Motion and Drama

Tutorials and techniques to manipulate the focus in a photo. Learn how to simulate soft focus, add motion effects, create drama, and focus attention on the subject of a photo.
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.
Midnight Filter Effect
Explore a dreamy sort of effect that rescues an otherwise poor photo. Beginner level for Adobe Photoshop.
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.

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