Softener: the Soft Focus Photoshop plugin

About Softener

Make glamorous photos with smoother skin.

Softener is the soft focus effect used by portrait photographers to smooth skin tones. Adding Softener to a photo gives it a soft, dreamy haze that leaves skin looking as good as a magazine cover model. It's perfect for close-up photos and portraits - any photo where you want a soft, dreamy look.

Like having dozens of soft focus lenses - for a fraction of the price.

To get the same softening effect using your camera, you would need to buy a soft focus camera lens - and they can cost anywhere between $100 and $650. Softener creates the same effect as these lenses, at a fraction of the price. Softener has hundreds of effects combinations, so you can be more creative than with a lens. And because Softener is digital, you won't need to reshoot a photo to change the effect - just click the Undo button in your graphics program and try again. With the Softener preview window you can see the effect as you change it, so you can tweak the settings until you find something that's just right.

Use the same tools as the professionals.

Softener is used by all kinds of photographers, for everything from weddings, baby photos & portraits, through to glamour & sensual photography, corporate photos, and much more. But you don't need to be a photographer to use Softener - our customers include web designers, print media artists, email stationary designers, sig-tag designers, and graphic designers from around the world. Try Softener now, and you can achieve the same results as the many other professionals who use it.

Features

• Supports both RGB and Grayscale modes, saving you time converting greyscale pictures to colour mode just to use the plugin
• Radius setting gives you full control over the soft focus effect
• Opacity control lets you control the intensity of the effect
• Blend control lets you create a variety of special effects, from painter/watercolor-like effects to brilliant flashes of light.
• Luminosity control allows for a more subtle effect
• Presets! Now you can load and save your own Softener preset files, and share them with your friends & colleagues
• Remembers your previous settings on newer plugin hosts (don't lose those settings you spent ages perfecting!)
• New easy to use installer program gets you started quickly and easily

Take a sneak peek at Softener 2...

Softener 2 is coming soon - and if you buy Softener 1.32 now, you'll get a free upgrade to Softener 2 when it is released. Softener 2 runs 10x faster, includes support for 16-bit images (in RGB, CMYK and LaB color modes) when used with Photoshop, has a larger preview window and debuts the brand new Rapid Photo Editor....

The Rapid Photo Editor is designed for those times when you need to quickly view an image or make a quick adjustment. It loads 10 times faster than the big, bloated, brand-name image editors (you know the ones we mean!) It's specially designed to work with namesuppressed Plugins, and we've kept it to the bare essentials, to give you the fastest image editing experience we can. We've been working on this one for a while... we really hope you like it.

The Rapid Photo Editor comes free with Softener 2. Coming soon.

Features coming in Softener 2

• Runs 10x faster than Softener 1.32
• Support for 16-bit image depths
• Larger preview window
• Supports RGB, Greyscale, CMYK and LaB in Photoshop
• Includes the brand new namesuppressed Rapid Photo Editor
• Includes WinSparkle, to optionally check for updates automatically
• Installer program automatically detects and configures compatible programs on your computer
• Improved support for large multi-megapixel images
• Shinier graphics, icons, and much more.

Get Softener 2 for free when you buy Softener 1.32 today.

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System Requirements:

• Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
  or Windows 95/98/ME
• 32MB RAM
• 3MB hard disk space
• Adobe Photoshop or other Photoshop compatible plugin program (see below for details)

Compatible Programs

• Adobe Photoshop v3.04+
• Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 (32-bit versions only)
• Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Computerinsel PhotoLine 32
• Corel Paint Shop Pro X, X2, X3
• Corel Photopaint v8+
• IrfanView
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro
  versions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro Studio
• Megalux Ultimate FX
• Ulead PhotoImpact v4+
• ... and many others.

Awards

Softener Soft Focus Tutorials

• Soft Reflections