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Adjusting focus in the background

Adjusting focus in the background

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Adjusting focus in the background

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Rich Harrington: Let's create some depth in the image and where do you want it to fall off, Abba? Abba Shapiro: Well, I think as we go further back in the parking garage, I want to see that go out of focus. Rich: All right, so a little trick I like to do is select all and choose Copy Merged which copies everything to my clipboard and then paste, and then I get a flattened copy on top, and we're going to call this Depth. Now one of the best things about Photoshop CS6 is the fact that it has a Tilt-Shift Blur, which is kind of cool. Otherwise you could use the Camera Lens Blur, and you could actually go there to Lens Blur, and you could create a Depth Matte which works okay too. So we'll just select that layer, and we'll choose Filter > Blur > Tilt-Shift. Now that's fine and what we want to do here is rotate this, and we're going to position this on the subject, so she's our center point. And there is no need for anything to the right to be blurred, so we'll just set that outside of the…

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