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Tilt Shift, Iris, and Field Blur effects

Tilt Shift, Iris, and Field Blur effects - Photoshop Tutorial

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Tilt Shift, Iris, and Field Blur effects

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- [Instructor] Photoshop has a number of different ways to add creative blurs or selective focus to your image. First, I'm going to convert this to a Smart Object by right clicking on the background layer and choosing Convert to Smart Object. That way when I select Filter, and then Blur Gallery, Field Blur, Photoshop will add this as a Smart Filter. Photoshop puts a default pin in the center of the image. You can click in order to move that pin, and you can change the blur amount either using the on screen display or using the slider on the right-hand side. But using a single Field Blur isn't that interesting. I'll move this over to the right and then click on this house in order to add a second blur. With this blur, I'll remove the blur so that we have a sharp, in focus area here. Then I'll click again in the garden to add another Field Blur, and I can dial in the amount of blur that I want there. We can always drag…

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