cara menghilangkan jerawat

di tutorial photoshop yang saya sudah buat cara menghaluskan wajah yang judulnya menghilangkan kerutan di wajah.. di tutorial itu saya pake cara healing brush tool.. Sekarang saya mau coba dengan cara lain menghilangkan jerawat atau menghaluskan muka tanpa meng clone ataupun healing.. tapi dengan blur filter.
Buka foto yang mau dihaluskan wajahnya..

duplikat layer background atau layer gambar dengan menekan ctrl + J
ubah layer style menjadi vivid light.

Klik Image > adjustment > Invert atau tekan CTRL + I

Klik filter > blur > gaussian blur
Nilai radius tergantung gambar.. usahakan hasil blur nya sama yaa dengan yang digambar

Klik filter > other > high pass .. sekali lagi nilai radius tergantung besar gambar nya.. jadi dikira-kira aja wajahnya udah mulus apa belom..  .. kalo ada perubahan pada mata.. biarin aja.. nanti dimasking kok..

Kalo udah keliatan halus muka nya.. klik  Add layer mask ..
warna foreground harus hitam..

Klik brush TooL .. warnai bagian-bagian yang harusnya tajem.. seperti alis, mata, bibir, hidung, rambut, baju… kecuali daerah yang ada jerawarnya.. jangan di masking.

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Sidoarjo survivors return home

Indra Harsaputra and Wahjoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post, Sidoarjo | Sat, 08/14/2010 10:37 AM | The Archipelago

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With no real solution or compensation in sight, some Sidoarjo mudflow victims have decided to go back to their villages in Porong, East Java.

Former Kedungbendo subdistrict head Hasan has returned to his home and started to cultivate a garden, which is covered with thick dried mud. He determined to breed ducks and cat fish.

“I decided to breed ducks and catfish since it will be difficult to plant rice on this infertile land,” he told The Jakarta Post.

Before the mudflow started in 2006, Hasan was also a property developer who was involved in the development of the Tanggulangin Sejahtera housing complex, which has been deserted since 2007 due to the disaster.

“Back then, I was successfully developing 500 units of houses,” he said.

“Now I just feed ducks and catfish. I could serve you a meal and drinks before. Now I can only serve you iced tea.”

Tanggulangin Sejahtera home owners have all received compensation, allowing them to move to new homes.

However, many Kedungbendo residents said that they have yet to receive compensation because they lacked land ownership certificates.

Hasan is currently trying to rebuild the subdistrict office and elevate the road as an evacuation access should there be damage in the mudflow area.

He said 50 families have decided to go back to their villages, despite the thick dried mud that has covered their homes.

None of the families have received any compensation, he said.

“I will ask others to come back to the village and not to sell their land to Lapindo Brantas Inc,” he said, referring to the company many allege was responsible for creating the disaster.

The mudflow, which the Supreme Court previously said could not be blamed on Lapindo, has displaced more than 40,000 Sidoarjo residents.

Researchers from the Surabaya-based 10 Nopember Institute of Technology warned the government to evacuate all survivors from areas affected by the mudflow, saying that the area was over capacity and there was a threat of land subsidence.

The Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS) said it would rehabilitate the area, following its collapse over the weekend.

East Java Governor Soekarwo continued to prepare Rp 273 billion (US$30.30 million) to develop an 83-hectare geological tourism site near Sidoarjo.

Another survivor, Zainul Arifin, said he and hundreds of others would continue staging rallies and demanding that the government and Lapindo address mudflow-related problems, including compensation.

“Due to the company’s financial problems, we’re okay with getting 80 percent compensation paid in installments of Rp 15 million a month. But now Lapindo has failed to meet its promises. It has stopped paying the installments for the last five months,” said Zainul at a rally at the Sidoarjo Legislative Council building this week.

Zainul said the government had yet to come up with a good solution, despite repeated statements of empathy.

“Some of us have lost homes and jobs. Late payments really influence their lives, especially ahead of Ramadan when food prices increase significantly,” said Zainul.

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Green Watch: Company protects mangrove forests: Lungs of the seas

Green Watch: Company protects mangrove forests: Lungs of the seas
Jonathan Wootliff | Tue, 10/05/2010 11:43 AM | Environment
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Living life on the edge is tough. As if straddling both land and sea, exposed to unremitting tides and currents, scorching temperatures, choking mud and high salt concentrations isn’t enough.

Mangrove forests are facing far more perilous manmade threats from clearance for shrimp farming, conversion to agriculture and illegal logging activity.

A recent study commissioned by the UN Environmental Program reports that as much as 20 percent of the world’s mangroves have disappeared since 1980.

Indonesia harbors by far the largest mangrove cover in the world, accounting for over a fifth of these magical forests. Experts fear that any further loss will cause untold financial and economic havoc to the nation’s coastal communities and beyond.

Yes. Mangroves are magical places where forests rise above the ocean, representing among the most productive and biologically complex ecosystems on our planet.  These botanical amphibians are home to a plethora of nature that survives under the most extraordinary conditions.

Some of the most fascinating creatures can be found, including the mangrove Rivulus, which lives in the foul water of crab burrows and putrid mangrove pools. When the tide is low, the Rivulus can be seen jumping along the mud beds. It can apparently survive outside of water for months, bringing a whole new meaning to the expression, “fish out of water”.

The shoreline forests, with their protruding root structures, provide nursery grounds for fish, a food source for monkeys and many other mammals, as well as a nectar source for bats and insects. Birds roost in the canopy, shellfish attach themselves to the roots, and snakes can be seen swimming between tree trunks.

Indonesia’s mangrove forest cover is a “coast guard” against natural threats including littoral erosion, tsunamis and the impacts of rising sea levels caused by climate change.

With the alarming rate of attrition of the mangroves of East Java, I was delighted to discover that some encouraging remedial action is underway.

H.M. Sampoerna, one of Indonesia’s largest tobacco companies, has teamed up with the Nature and Conservation and Education Foundation, Yayasan Pendidikan dan Konservasi Alam (YAPEKA) and the local government, to protect and restore a large swathe of endangered mangrove on the east coast of Surabaya.

Started in December 2009, the initiative is helping the local community to develop sustainable activities that will enable the 30,000 inhabitants to prosper without compromising the ecological integrity of Surabaya’s precious mangrove oceanfront.

Key to the success of this work will be to educate those living in the area to respect their surrounding nature, understand its value and importance to their future, while benefiting without destroying this ecological gem.

This ambitious private-public partnership encourages mangrove conservation and includes replanting activity with the goal of expanding forest cover by six percent.

The project is targeting some 870 hectares of the area known as Pamurbaya, which is on the eastern outskirts of the country’s second most populated city. It is focusing on three villages, Gunung Anyar, Medokan Ayu, and Wonorejo, where the community is dependent on fishing and other mangrove-related sources of income.

Local people are being taught how to live with and not against the mangroves.

Also known as Purbaya, this massive area of mangrove stretches across more than 25 square kilometers along the Javanese side of the Madura Strait. Satellite mapping has revealed an astonishing loss of approximately one third of this oceanic forest expanse over the past 40 years.

As if the mangroves were not facing enough threats, mud dumped into the sea from the infamous Lapindo mudflow is likely to have adverse impacts on coastal ecosystems along the eastern Surabaya coastline.

YAPEKA is currently undertaking a study to gauge the true effects of this catastrophe, the site of which is less than 30 kilometers away.

As one of the largest employers in Surabaya, Sampoerna has a vested interest in helping the community where it operates. Its production facilities in the area include a factory where hundreds of skilled staff hand-roll Indonesia’s famous Kretek Tangan cigarettes.

A subsidiary of the global tobacco giant Philip Morris, the company supports a range of sustainability initiatives designed to help people to enhance their own livelihoods while conserving the environment. It collaborates with local NGOs including Bina Swadaya, Mitra Indonesia Sempurna and Primakelola in running an agricultural training center for around 1,000 people each year.

And it has recently completed a reforestation project with local inhabitants on nearby Mount Arjuno to prevent soil erosion with the aim of protecting the source of the Brantas River on which some 20 million people in the region depend for their water supply.

While cigarettes may be harmful to human health, it is pleasing to see a tobacco business helping the protect the health of Planet Earth.

YAPEKA is now developing a detailed conservation plan with the cigarette company, which it plans to deliver to the Surabaya government next February. It is expected that the area will be designated as a so-called Management Information Center, with the local authorities using the plan as a blueprint for long-term conservation.

This project provides a world-class example of an effective collaboration between a company and not-for-profit organizations. With limited public resources, it is essential that business plays a role protecting Indonesia’s invaluable environmental resources.

The Municipality of Surabaya has been supportive of this important project to date. Now we must wait and see whether they can execute the plan and curb the depletion of our invaluable mangrove forests.

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