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Create soft-focus and vignette effects

Create soft-focus and vignette effects - Adobe Mobile Apps Tutorial

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Create soft-focus and vignette effects

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- [Male Instructor] Sometimes it's nice to really accentuate a focal area in your image. We have a couple of different tools that can either be used on their own or together to do that. The first one is defocus. What that allows us to do is basically paint in a defocused area. I'm going to tap that icon which is over at the bottom on right hand side almost at the very right edge. If I tap there again I've got some brush controls here. I actually am going to use the largest brush I can. I'm going to change the hardness of the brush. I actually want the really, really soft brush. I like soft transitions for things like this. I'm going to drop the opacity down to about 30. In fact it was there already so that's all good. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to paint in from the edges, starting on the right hand side. Just sort of defocus that hair on the edge. You see that as I do this it gives me a small red overlay. I'll come quite away into the hair. Just wobbling this around. As I…

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