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5.32 SOFT SKIN EFFECT
Menu Position MENU  7  Soft Skin Effect

What it Does Removes wrinkles and blemishes under certain circumstances.

Recommended Setting: It depends on the age of your subject. 

Constraints You cannot be in a continuous shooting mode; not available in
RAW

This feature is designed to give your subject smoother skin when in fact
they have “wrinkles and blemishes”. It’s hard to see its effects unless you
happen to have a blemish-ridden subject, but it does to a pretty good job of
getting rid of zits without requiring Photoshop.
When enabling the function, you can use the Left and Right cursor keys to
choose between Lo, Mid, and Hi intensity.
I had a hard time finding a subject on which this feature made a difference.
According to Sony’s press release, the effect “removes or reduces
blemishes and smooths skin texture. It also maintains sharpness in higher
contrast areas, like eyes and mouth.” Figure 5-74 shows an example (you
may have to zoom in a little to see the differences, but they are there!)

TIP: Like many of the processing-intensive features of this camera, the Soft
Skin mode can’t be used when in any kind of continuous shooting mode or
bracketing mode, movie mode, panorama mode, etc. Only modes which take
one picture at a time. (It doesn’t work in RAW mode, either.)