I use a ‘lighten’ blend mode in GIMP/PS etc, for smoothing. Simply smooth/blur a cloned top layer, set it to lighten, and done - the details in a photo stay sharp (enough) and the artifacts/blemishes disappear(ish) in flatter areas.
There are many smoothing options in Shotcut, but using that lighten blend mode on a smoothed track, over the original track, feels like it could be a much simpler option (read: lazier option, and I like lazy!).
I’ve had a solid wander through, but I can’t find anything similar.
I’ve also read the various documentation sets here, but to be honest, I’m simply either not clever enough, or lacking background knowledge enough, to make sense of it enough to apply to what I’m thinking and trying to achieve.
Am I simply missing somthing obvious (that is, is there an equivalent that I’ve missed)?
It’s good - thank you - but loses a bit more detail than the tweaked solution above. Also, my laptop’s pretty wimpy… to say the least… so I’ll stick with the “Probably won’t set my machine on fire” option. Appreciate the help though!
In that case, you can use the filter set included in Shotcut called Glow Intensity
That filter set is made of 4 filters, including Glow and Opacity and you can use it to reduce the intensity of the glow filter without the need of a second track.
Edit the parameters of Glow and Opacity until you get result you want and you can save this as a new custom Filter Set.
