How to Make Glowy Skin on PhotoFiltre

You can give your subjects a healthy glow with PhotoFiltre.

PhotoFiltre is an image editing program, very similar to professional versions such as Photoshop, which offers many of the same features for a lower price. In addition to including many of the tools of more advanced programs, PhotoFiltre also includes many of the same filters, allowing you to add a number of interesting effects to your images. If you plan to use PhotoFiltre to edit photos of people, you can add a filter effect to give their skin a healthy glow.

Things You'll Need

• Image file

Instructions

1. Open PhotoFiltre and click "File" in the top toolbar. Choose "Open" and navigate to the location of your image file, then double-click it to open the file for editing.

2. Click "Layer" in the toolbar at the top of the screen and choose "Duplicate" to create a duplicate layer. A new layer will appear in the Layers bar. Click the duplicate layer to select it.

3. Click "Filter" in the top toolbar and choose "Optical Effect," then "Gaussian Blur." Set the radius setting to "10" and click "OK."

4. Click the "Rules of Fusion" box at the bottom of the Tools palette and choose "Overlay." This setting controls the blending mode between the two modes. The image should now have a glow effect.

5. Repeat the steps to add an additional layer and add a Gaussian filter to it if you would like to increase the glow effect.

6. Click "File" and choose "Save as." Choose a file name and location for your image and click "Save" to save the file as a copy. This prevents overwriting the original image.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment with higher and lower Gaussian filter radius settings to increase or decrease the effect until you have the result you want.

References

• PhotoFiltre Manual: Advanced Operations on Layers
• PhotoFiltre Manual: Basic Operations on Layers
• PhotoFiltre Manual: Apply Filters
• Celestial Star: Glowing Skin - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial