How do I blur photos in iPhoto 11?
In the older versions of iPhoto, the sharpness slider default position was in the middle. Slide to the right {+} and the picture sharpened, slide to the left {-} and it blurred. Now that the slider starts from the left, there seems to be no way to decrease the sharpness (I didn't blur often, but it was handy for a few shots).
The weird thing is, is that when you hold the cursor over the Sharpness control, you get conflicting messages :
over the word Sharpness, the tooltip says Sharpen the focus
but over the slider itself, it says Sharpen or soften the focus
The implication is that there is a way to turn the sharpness slider into a soften slider, but neither Control nor Option achieves this.
Does anyone know how to make the Sharpness slider into a Soften slider? (There doesn't seem to be any logical reason why Apple would simply remove one of the features in iPhoto).
I would certainly use Aperture if I shot RAW, but my Lumix FZ38 - though it can shoot RAW - came out in tests as not worth using as 1) it's a very small sensor and 2) its Venus JPEG engine is very good.
I do also have Photoshop CS2, which is the only thing that now makes my ancient Canoscan scanner work (VueScan also, but I'm not prepared to pay $40 when Photoshop does it for free) - also Photoshop supports Action macros and CMYK which Elements doesn't. I once bought Pixelmator too, so I have 'graphics editor' overload!
Having said that, I do 90% of my photo editing in iPhoto, and find '11 is quite capable. It's just an annoyance that they took away the Blur feature. (I had a look at Macphun, but I don't need to pay for yet more editing software ).
Actually, I just remembered I also have Back In Focus, which is special sharpening software - maybe it does the opposite too? I'll have to have a look at that.
Thanks.
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