Want to add a truly defining touch to your image? Want to give your image a dreamy or romantic appearance? A diffuse glow can take a good photo and make it into a great photo. The idea is not to blur the entire image, but to add a halo or glow to to a desired range of tones. You can add richness and shape to your shadows or give your highlights a high key effect. "Giving Your Photo a Glow" shows you how to use a combination of blurs, layer blend modes, and blending techniques (in particular, the Blend If sliders) to add a diffuse glow.

An HTML version of the tutorial is available on Michael Reichmann's Luminous-Landscape.com site. If your unfamiliar with Michael Reichmann or his site, he's one of the very best landscape photographers and his site is one of the most popular photography sites on the Web. The very first image in this tutorial is an example of Michael's photographic talent.

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