Soft Focus in Photoshop

Since I don't have one of those expensive soft focus lenses, I tried doing it in Photoshop with an Anemone photo I took last spring. Here is the result. Please tell me your opinion on it:

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I like it .... Looks great to me. Help me by telling me where you do that frame?

You can create the frame in Photoshop.

HOW TO DO THE FRAME.

1.In photoshop click on the polygonal lasso tool, then right click on image and click select all.
2.Right click on image again all click on stroke
3.In the box,have the location at inside.Select the colour of the frame and the width size(should be a number followed by px).Choose the blending mode,for a bold colour have it on normal.
DONE

To add another colour inside the first one(i.e white like in that pic)
1.After doing all the stuff for the first frame,select the rectangular marquee tool.
2.Zoom into one of the corners of the frame(i.e top left) and keeping your finger down do a left click then go to the other corner of the frame(i.e bottum right).Doing this will select the inside of the frame on the pic.
3.Now just repeat what you did for the first frame,but make the size smaller.
DONE

HTH

EDIT TO SAY - nice pic

I like it. Not centering the flower in the frame was a good composition choice IMO.

Yes, I agree that the off center composition really makes this image look more than just a flower.

Nice shot.

Alan B wrote:
HOW TO DO THE FRAME.

1.In photoshop click on the polygonal lasso tool, then right click on image and click select all.
2.Right click on image again all click on stroke
3.In the box,have the location at inside.Select the colour of the frame and the width size(should be a number followed by px).Choose the blending mode,for a bold colour have it on normal.
DONE

To add another colour inside the first one(i.e white like in that pic)
1.After doing all the stuff for the first frame,select the rectangular marquee tool.
2.Zoom into one of the corners of the frame(i.e top left) and keeping your finger down do a left click then go to the other corner of the frame(i.e bottum right).Doing this will select the inside of the frame on the pic.
3.Now just repeat what you did for the first frame,but make the size smaller.
DONE

HTH

Yes, that's one way and maybe the easiest, but since I'm pretty much self-taught and didn't figure that out at first, I have been making frames by increasing the canvas size by a few pixels, filling in the white with the paint bucket, then increasing it 50 or so more and filling it with black. Either way works.

Yea Haw, Figured a different way before you posted that but i like that way better.

Not to steal your thread, but how is this?

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Very nice! Is is straight from the camera, or did you do any adjustments?

I removed the color to make it BW but that was it. Thanks for posting the frame I learned something today and can stop using cheesy frames....

I really like the flower shot, because of the composition and color. I'd still like it if it had not been softened.