# Cool effect
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-effect/189704
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 5, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-effect/189704 "2006-06-05T14:56:15Z")
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### Author:  [@andyryan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andyryan)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-effect/189704/1 "2006-06-05T14:56:15Z")
anybody got any idea how the images are produced on [www.sksantos.com](http://www.sksantos.com) to produce the airbrushed, film like photos. They look almost like paintings cos of the smooth skin, high contrast etc.
any ideas?
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### Author:  [@LunaSolar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LunaSolar)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-effect/189704/2 "2006-06-06T19:25:57Z")
> [@iLikePie](#):
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> nah, not vectors (well at least the ones i looked at).
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> the different photos do have varying effects and the photo you choose to use makes a big difference. The first thing is that this guy knows how to take a good shot - angle, lighting, etc.
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> you can play around with this KIND of effect like this:
> copy the photo onto a second layer.
> blur it a bit (not much, but noticeable).
> play around with the blending mode… you’ll see the brightness jump up or down on certain modes, while not being too harsh (because of the blurring).
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> from there, you’ll need to play with using more layers, and also stuff like isolating (through masking) sections you want to further manipulate, and other filters _can_ work well, but generally the ones that look really obvious aren’t that good, things like contrast can be ok (but NO glowing edges or anything like that :P).
Keep duping the photo, blur it, blend it, and make it mostly transparent…repeat.
Why didn’t I think of this?!!?!?!!?!?!
Now i have to kick myself. This is the exact opposite of the method I use to make photos look “old”.
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### Author:  [@alpha2005](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alpha2005)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-effect/189704/3 "2006-06-07T02:54:54Z")
Wow, that is pretty cool. I will give it a try and see if I can do it too!