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Adding depth of field with camera lens blur

Adding depth of field with camera lens blur

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Adding depth of field with camera lens blur

We're going to create depth of field now. And in order to do that, I need to bring in another copy of my file. So I'm going to bring it down to the timeline. And when it's down in the timeline, I'm going to go in and put it on Standard (Draft) mode, No Textures/Shader, no precalculation. And then, we're going to go down to Multi-Pass. And I'm going to set the Multi-Pass to Depth. When I do that, I should see the Depth map rendered and it's showing me the depth. If we go back to the beginning, you'll see, remember I set it up in Cinema 4D so the claw would be in focus and everything else would be out of focus. So what I want to do now is use that to blur all the other layers. Now, in order to do that, I'm going to add another adjustment layer. So I go to Layer > New > Adjustment Layer. And, again, I'm going to use a built-in effect. I'm going to use the Lens Blur effect to do this. (SOUND) And Camera Lens Blur is the name of the effect. I'm going to drag that onto the Adjustment layer.…

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