Check this out:
Lea Cheesecake Pinup
The idea is to create a “bloom” effect. You can try this with Photoshop’s Diffuse Glow, but it’s just not the same. How you accomplish this is by creating a duplicate layer on top of the original, and using Guassian Blur on the duplicate. Then use a composition mode of Overlay or Soft Light.
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