I'm doing mostly touchup work with digital photographs. My camera, an Olympus C2020 has a 1/2 inch CCD and an incredible amount of DOF. In fact, F2 on that camera is approximately like F32 on my 35mm equivalent lens! I typically shoot studio portraits at F8 which means you can see every nose hair and my painted background's brush strokes are evident whereas they look like a soft pastel blur with a normal camera at F8. I use a soft focus filter but that still doesn't do the trick.

What I'm playing around with is a duplicate layer with a fairly large radius gaussian blur along with a series of gradient masks but I have had limited success with this technique. I was just wondering if anyone else has worked with this issue and been more successful.

Thanks,

Jaz

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Jack A. Zucker
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