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Auto-blending depths of field - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Auto-blending depths of field
All right. I promised to show you a good use for Auto-Blend Layers, and one of the great uses for Auto-Blend Layers is Photomerge. It's very successful in that context, and I was telling you that Photomerge is really just a combination of Auto-Align Layers and Auto-Blend Layers working together. So we'll see, just how well the feature performs in that context later, but for now, I want to show you another trick that it has up its sleeve, by itself. You can actually blend images with different depths of field. So if you shoot a series of images, all of which have different levels of focus, then you can merge the focused versions of all of those images together fairly automatically. You're going to have to follow up with a little manual layer masking, but most of the work will be done by the Auto-Blend Layers command by itself. So here I am in the Bridge, looking at the contents of this Video awards subfolder, and what we're seeing here is six images all shot by photographer Jacob…
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Artificial intelligence that works1m 22s
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The Auto-Align Layers command7m 25s
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The Auto-Blend Layers command3m 54s
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Masking auto-aligned layers4m 50s
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The Geometric Distortion setting6m 44s
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The Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox4m 8s
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Creating the best possible layer mask9m 18s
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Auto-blending depths of field5m 54s
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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections6m 29s
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Shooting and downsampling panorama images5m 54s
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Introducing the Photomerge command6m 40s
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Evaluating the Layout settings6m 47s
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Loading, aligning, and blending with Photomerge5m 36s
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Tracing and extracting seams7m 18s
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Adding a masked element into a panorama5m 55s
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Simplifying and correcting a panorama5m 58s
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Smart Filters and nondestructive cropping6m 43s
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