Creating a "bounce" with Gaussian Blur

In the next few movies, we're going to further enhance the impact…of this image using a combination of Gaussian Blur and High Pass.…And while these steps don't have anything to do specifically with the shadows…highlights command, they will further impact…the shadows and highlights inside the image.…And you'll get a sense of how to work…with multiple smart filters along with a filter mask.…Here inside Photoshop.…So let's try things off with a very traditional Gaussian blur effect.…I'm going to go up to the filter menu, choose blur and then choose Gaussian…blur or if you loaded D key, so you can use my keyboard shortcut shift F6.…

And I'm going to take that Gaussian blur value up very…high to 15 pixels and essentially what I'm trying to do.…Is blur away pretty much all of the edges, inside of this image.…Then go ahead and click OK, in order to apply that effect.…Now so far, we're not…doing much to increase the impact of the image at all, in fact…we're just making the image appear as if We've taken off our glasses.…