Quote Originally Posted by Danny
on a side note, that effect can be done usually with a guassian blur, around 3px thick.
and if you create a seperate layer, and vary the opasity of the blur in different spots you can make the image "blur" where you want, thereby softening the areas you want.

if I use gaussian right, i can almost make some of my shots look like they were taken with a half decent digital SLR... but it's not quite the same... :*(