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Path Blur + Smart Objects: How Aaron Nace's Light Effect Technique Changed My Retouching Workflow
I was sitting on a job last month, a cosmetics campaign with a handful of hero shots that needed that polished, high-end glow you see in magazine spreads. The kind of light that feels like it’s moving. My usual approach, stacking a few soft light layers and leaning on Gaussian Blur, was getting me to “pretty good” but not quite to “that.” I knew the gap was in how I was handling directional light.