How To Use Photoshop To Blur Backgrounds And Add Bokeh
Focus more attention on your foreground subjects by blurring the backgrounds of your images with realistic bokeh fx in Photoshop!
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The Lens Blur Filter in Photoshop – Julianne Kost
Julianne Kost demonstrates the Lens Blur Filter in Photoshop.
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How To Blur Your Images Creatively
Explore ways to use blur in your images creatively.
The Top 5 Reasons To Blur Your Images
Quick & Easy Depth Of Field Effects With Photoshop’s Depth Blur
How To Combine Focussed & Defocussed Images Using Photoshop
A Quick Visual Comparison Of All Of Photoshop’s Blur Filters
A Grand Overview Of Photoshop’s Blur Filters
Control Blur FX In Photoshop With Amazing Precision
Create Sophisticated Motion Blur Effects With Photoshop’s Path Blur Filter
How To Create More Realistic Blur Effects By Adding A Little Noise
3 Color Tweaks To Improve Image Blur’s Depth Of Field
2 Ways To Quickly Add Bokeh Flares To Your Images
Enhance Blur Effects With Selective Sharpening | Coming
How To Achieve Optimum Exposure
Achieve optimum exposures.
Use The Exposure Triangle Creatively | Coming
Setting Your Digital Camera’s File Format
Setting Your Digital Camera’s Color Space
8 Essentials To Achieve Perfectly Focused Exposures
13 Essential Tips For Low Light & Night Photography
Test Camera – Dust | Coming
Test Camera – ISO | Coming
Test Lens – Sharpest Aperture | Coming
Get Better Exposures Using Hyper-Focal Distance | Coming
How To Hold Your Camera Steady | Coming
What To Do When You Don’t Have A Tripod | Coming
Shoot In Bursts To Reduce Camera Shake | Coming
Use Camera Motion Creatively | Coming
Multi-Shot Techniques
Multi-Shot – Extending Format – Panorama
Multi-Shot – Extending Depth Of Field – Focus Stacking
Multi-Shot – Extending Resolution – 3 Ways Increase Resolution
Multi-Shot – Extending Bit Depth – 32 Bit Tone Mapping
Multi-Shot – Extending Dynamic Range – HDR
Multi-Shot – Remove Or Multiply Moving Objects
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Create Sophisticated Motion Effects With Powerful Photoshop’s Path Blur Filter
Photoshop CC's recent addition to its Blur Gallery, Path Blur offers a creative and flexible way to add directional motion to your images in postproduction.
Controlling Blur FX With Photoshop
Photographers use blur (or bokeh) for a variety of reasons: to enhance space through depth of field; to add interesting visual artifacts; to simplify them; to change the quality of their expression. In the past, blur was controlled almost entirely through exposure; now it can also be controlled during post-processing, giving photographers an unprecedented array of options and ways to customize the look and feel of their images. Knowing what you can do, how far you can go, and when you can do it may change the way you shoot, one time, sometimes, or all the time.
There are many blur filters in Photoshop; Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, Gaussian Blur, Lens Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Shape Blur, Smart Blur, Surface Blur (in order of appearance in the Filter: Blur drop down menu. The choices are extensive and it pays to familiarize yourself with your options by experimenting with them; you’ll find you have an extraordinary set of options that you can modify and combine creatively. If you only use the filters Gaussian Blur and Lens Blur, you’ll still have game-changing control at your fingertips, once you learn how to extend and modify them.
There are several important non-destructive strategies you can use to gain more control over all filter effects that will enable you to go further in your explorations and generate more sophisticated and compelling results Try one or all of the moves in this classic progression. Apply a filter to a duplicate layer and then modify its Opacity, Blend Mode, Blend If Sliders, and add a layer mask …
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Combining Sharpen & Blur Tools In Photoshop – Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington demonstrates the power of combining detail enhancement and reduction in Photoshop.
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Exploring Photoshop Blur Tools Combinations – Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington demonstrates how the Blur Gallery filters can be combined. You can adjust how the transition zones, and the Field, Tilt Shift and Iris blurs interact.
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