From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day
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Creating fake depth of field in Magic Bullet Looks
From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day
Creating fake depth of field in Magic Bullet Looks
One of the nice thing about Magic Bullet Looks is it's extra tools that allow you to do fake depth of field. So, I'm going to choose the Magic Bullet Looks sequence here, and apply it to this clip. I'll just grab the Looks from the set of effects filters and I'll click Edit Look to bring up the Looks builder. Over in the Lens section, we've got a vignette tool. And the Vignette tool with its screen controls, lowers the luma values of the edge of the image to allow us to focus on the subject in the center. Here's the before and after. But next to it, there is also in the Lens section, an Edge Softness tool. The Edge Softness tool is used in a very similar way as the Vignette. You can change the aspect, and you can move it around the screen. And everything inside the center area of this tool, is not blurred, and everything outside is blurred according to the blur quality amount in the settings. I've always found that the blur size of three is a little too much for this effect, so I tend…
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