How to blur background
Mar 29, 2013 02:00:42 #
stretch86025
Loc: Holbrook Az
How do you blur backgrounds in Photoshop cs6,Or Photoshop Elements 11.Any help would be welcomed.
Mar 29, 2013 02:07:20 #
stretch86025 wrote:
How do you blur bacgounds in Photoshop cs6,Or Photoshop Elements 11.Any help would be welcomed.
Isolate the background and use Filters>Blur. Best done by selecting foreground and reversing selected area, then use that to create a layer, balancing the full and blurred via opacity and brightness of layer.
Mar 29, 2013 02:41:25 #
Mar 29, 2013 03:50:26 #
stretch86025 wrote:
How do you blur backgrounds in Photoshop cs6,Or Photoshop Elements 11.Any help would be welcomed.
Here is one way to do it.
http://simplykellydesigns.com/blog/2012/05/16/photoshop-elements-10-blur-photo-background/
Mar 29, 2013 04:00:25 #
duplicate layer then select FILTER>BLUR>LENS BLUR. Use radius slider to control blur, click ok. Next, add layer mask, then select brush tool and make sure foreground set to black on white. Next, start to brush on part of image you want to bring back in focus. You can press ALT+CLICK on layer mask in layers pallete to show if brush missed anything and press same again to return to normal view. When the lens blur dialogue box 1st comes up make sure to tick PREVIEW, choose FASTER, SOURCE-none and THRESHHOLD-255. Like anything in photoshop, there are many roads that lead to the same place, this is just one. Have fun.
Mar 30, 2013 06:55:11 #
Mar 30, 2013 07:28:43 #
you got that right.
Grand wrote:
easier doing on the camera, i think.
Mar 30, 2013 07:45:23 #
Grand wrote:
easier doing on the camera, i think.
It's preferable, but depending on the lens and/or the camera it's not always possible.
Mar 30, 2013 09:02:22 #
Always use Gaussian blur in Photoshop, it gives a much more natural de-focus appearance.
If you're familiar with it use the gradient tool in conjunction with the layer mask to gradually blur the background.
If you're familiar with it use the gradient tool in conjunction with the layer mask to gradually blur the background.
Mar 30, 2013 16:32:31 #
stretch86025
Loc: Holbrook Az
I knew a couple ways but never liked the results the way i did,Now i know a couple more ways from reading posts.Thanks i prefer doing it on camera but when I do sports I'm always trying but useally always ends up in sharp for all of the picture.
Mar 30, 2013 22:05:35 #
shirl2sg
Loc: Northern Minnesota
Mogul wrote:
Isolate the background and use Filters>Blur. Best done by selecting foreground and reversing selected area, then use that to create a layer, balancing the full and blurred via opacity and brightness of layer.
Thanks for the info...I'm going to try this out!
Mar 31, 2013 01:29:41 #
In CS6 there is a blur tool. It allows you to blur just what you want to blur. You can also make a duplicate layer then blur the whole thing and mask out the parts you want sharp. I like the blur tool because I can blur in a more selective manner and have it look like I really used a shallow depth of field.
Apr 1, 2013 00:00:28 #
Apr 1, 2013 01:23:57 #
By this time of day every thing is blurry to me. LOL
Not now but in my past life it sure was.
Not now but in my past life it sure was.
Mogul wrote:
Just let me know what the subject is; I can blur ANYTHING!
Apr 1, 2013 01:53:12 #
Harvey wrote:
By this time of day every thing is blurry to me. LOL
Not now but in my past life it sure was.
Not now but in my past life it sure was.
Harvey, that's not blur; that's snow-blindness. 8-)
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