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Why dplicate the layer? Why not just se a layer mask?

Very helpful for begginers (like me)

Rabbidog, I duplicate the layer for a couple of reasons. 1) you need 2 layers, 1 with the original in focus, and the second with the modifications you've made, thus, when you layer mask, you'll see through to the original, and 2) because working on a duplicate means that you can always undo back to the original quickly with a quick delete and duplicate of layers.

ppd, thanks. Each to there own opinion, and everybodies opinion is welcomed!

GOOD Work!!

Wounderful body! by this way you have a great control on the focused picture as well as your work flow - if you can make a mistake you can easily correct it.
Well, for the blurring a background, I apply the principal of the lence. You have to blue the detail as a lence do. Keep your point of interest in focus and go through different appartures; put on the the depth-of-field button and you will find that at different apparture, the blurr of the foreground and background is different.
Well, if you keep in mind the same principal of the lence for the depth-of-field; the correction with the software will be more realistic!
Select the different area of foreground and background during the process and blurr them with the different degree or let me say as a lence on camera blurr at open aparture! You may use the blurr button on the photoshop tool bar if you have really small area to blurr!
I do not have that much time otherwise I can put such blurring in same image illustrated image.
You can see some example to my web-site (http://PixelToPixel.com)
to this links :
http://www.pixeltopixel.com/ToPutSelectiveItemInFo- cus.html



http://www.pixeltopixel.com/BluringBackgroundDetai- ls.html

sorry for some word mistakes in my writing; I really forget to correct them.

In short, I just want to make it clear that even with the software, do as a camera lence do to your resulting image. Then your correction with the software will be more photo-realistic improvement.
Thank!

loving it. but i cant quite work out how to do it for photoshop. its all very similar until you want to create the mask. would you know??

thanks!

in photoshop you use layer->add fusion mask->show all

or just click on the bottom of layer window looking like a half-filled circle.

photoshop would be easier and better

But more expensive! :-)

Nice Trick

Yeah not a bad way to do this - but it seems quite lengthy?

i would have just used a feathered lasoo tool, to select the subject, inverted the selection and applied to blur.

Same effect with less steps.

which software n which version is used???

Nice tip, but for this picture I would have gradiently blurred the ground so it would look like something you can acchieve with aperture too.

to mojoq: That is another way to do it, but you only get one shot. By doing the blur on a different layer, you can adjust and improve until you have the perfect result.

Nice work.

cool, thanks for the tip.

Thx for the Front Page! My webspace creaked 15Gigs this month!

@Saljo, Gimp 2.2!
Also, was not trying for Depth of field effect so much as highlighting the common tool of layers to acheive the powerful and startling effects. I'll leave the real work up to those who know what they are talking about with Depth of Field etc...!

Thanks all!

Very good tutorial for beginners indeed. 'grats!

Very useful thanks!

very easy, tks

nice but the final result couldhave been beteer

The blurring is good, of course, but why the horizon line is not horizontal? :)

I was merely showing one technique, that others can build into their repertoire. There is probably a few things I could have done with the image, but for the sake of brevity and sticking to the subject, I dealt only with the blurring of the background.

Besides, who's to say that the sea wasn't on a slant that day :-p

I loved the B/W one!

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The end result turned out so bad - in no way does this look realistic. Nice try, though.

And to gokercy61, who liked the B&W one: you're an idiot.


Idiot.

IT would be easier to use the eraser tool than to create a layer mask and the paintbrush...(well...For me it is...)

I agree with those of you who can't understand why you'd add more steps to some action when the same could be done with the tools such as lasso or eraser.

You have to understand that there's a "class" difference, if you will, in graphic design. Once you reach a certain level of expertise you're expected to stop destroying images using tools that permanently alter images, and start using masks and layers to create the same effect.

As to the tutorial, it's a nice basic tutorial, but I'd have to agree with those who didn't like the final product, because I'd definitely make quite a few more adjustments after this blurring before I'd want to show it off. But taking the tutorial in the spirit it was given (showing people how to do one effect on a photo), I give you a thumbs up :)

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