Attached Link: http://www.asf.com

Read about this in the July issue of Professional Photographer magazine... so I thought I'd download the demo.... leaves a watermark.... price to register is $99. This is one I think you may be interested in Donald as you do a lot of portraiture work... I tested it out on an image of me at my worst... bare faced and blotchy... :~) So far I like what I see....

And a crop of the two side by side.....

Lot cheaper than botox... but not sure why you would want something like this, 'Chelle?

'chelle - Yea, they sent me a copy of this a while ago but I still haven't gotten around to playing with it yet. It's an offshoot of their Digital GEM technology. They being Kodak (who bought ASF). One day I'll get around to trying it out.

Not bad filter ,but I think it just has that filtered look.See right by your shoulder...the shadow of your face? It seems more realistic in the before-edit.

Attached Link: http://www.foto-freeware.de/cleanskinfx.php

Hi Michelle. Maybe this little FREE program is something for you :-) BTW the program is English and not German. Willem

Hyerborea....Have you tried that yet? Looks like they got the images mixed up in the first demo view.I'd say the left one looked better where it said original than the result one.Might be worth the try though.

Hmm looks interesting Chelle certainly tried the Cleanskin one Willem recommends which is good..

Thanks for the link Willem! I've downloaded and I'm tring it out.... here I've compared the original with the DigitalGem plugin and the free CleanSkin.... Used default settings on both.... no other manipulating.....

And the close up comparison.... the one thing I have noticed is that the Clearskin prog seems to introduce a bit of grain.....

I still recommend the Guacamole Face Pack...far better than Botox...and, no need to "Download"...You can get it at Your Green Grocer's. You don't need extra RAM either....Baaaaaaaaaaaa!

Thank you for the information.
I tried the Cleanskinfx. It is nice.
It will certainly make girls happy.

Tedzo - Ummm ... I'm not even going to ask you where you got Blue Guacamole. Nope ... not going to do it. I've tried a few of the apps that do skin softening, but tend to not like them too much. I just really don't like the airbrushed Playboy Playmate look all that much. I like to see some texture in the skin. Even when I soften the image a bit I tend to put more texture back than many people I have seen. Above shot is an example of that. -=>Donald

And I would agree with you there Donald.... believe me I don't like the airbrushed stuff either, but I do like how I look without the blotches and uhhh...creases... I had recently taken a pic of my cousin and her new baby at the hospital.... of course they both looked blotchy.... I spent a good hour or so trying to make them both look better.... not sure how this may look on others monitors... left is before, right is after.... I was pleased with the results of the print and so was she... The idea that there is a plugin that could make this easier is nice.... of course it's not something I would need or want to use all the time....

blotches? creases? YOU? No!

I did the above with the technique I describe below. Only difference between left and right is that I added a bit more "warmth" to the right one (personal preferrence). I usually do a simple technique to fix blotchiness. Duplicate the layer. Set the duplicate layer's blend mode to lighten. Apply a Gaussian Blur to the layer - just enough so that the blotchiness evens out. Don't worry about how the rest of it looks. Now, after blurring, add an all black Layer Mask to the duplicate layer. Everything should look as if nothing has been done to the image. Now, using a paintbrush with color set to white, go over the areas of blotchy skin. Depending on the skin type and what I see, I may then add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to reduce redness across the face. Again, I use a layer mask to only reduce it where I want it reduced. In the above, I did add this layer. -=>Donald

Wow.... that does look great.... now in looking at yours I can see how cold my postworked one looks.... really like the one with the added warmth.... I'll have to try those steps you've outlined....

Not so sure Michelle.Your right one above looks pretty "au naturel" to me.Gives a real apperance of being right there.Rather than a generated look of skin tone.Sorry Donald ,but the shadows under the chin don't cut it, in MHO.

This was an example of getting rid of blotchiness, not of doing a complete edit. You would need to go in and burn the shadow tones (and dodge highlights - ie hair - if necessary).