From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
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Adding a snowflake bokeh on the lens - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
Adding a snowflake bokeh on the lens
- [Instructor] All right, now we're gonna wrap things up with this bokeh effect right here, these blurred circles that are intended to look like snow flakes that have landed and melted on the lens. All right, so notice that I have this folder right here, called, on lens, I'm gonna twirl it open, and you can see that we've got two layers, on lens one and on lens two. And I want you to see, if I go ahead and select on lens one, it contains three circles that I painted just using a circular brush, and if I were to switch to the move tool and grab this guy, for example, you can see that he's altogether whole, as is the other one over here. So I basically painted the circles, and moved them into different positions, so that they're larger than the canvas. All right, I'll go ahead and undo that move, and I'm gonna turn off on lens two for the moment. Now I want to blur these circles but I want to do so entirely non destructively, without resorting to yet another smart object. And so the way…
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The power of compositing2m 7s
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Smooth edges and color fringing5m 6s
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Assigning a shortcut to Refine Edge3m 23s
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Correcting wispy edges with Refine Mask4m 10s
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Bolstering hair or fur with a blended layer4m 20s
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Combining your refined layer masks5m 17s
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Dressing up a bad background4m 35s
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Masking a background image5m 59s
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From alpha channel to filter mask2m 28s
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Darkening a sky with Gradient Overlay2m 33s
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Creating a synthetic snow effect4m 41s
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Enhancing your snowflakes4m 32s
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Adding a snowflake bokeh on the lens3m 42s
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