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Pre-simplifying a photo with the Smart Blur filter - Painter Tutorial
From the course: Painter 2019 Essential Training
Pre-simplifying a photo with the Smart Blur filter
- [Instructor] This chapter focuses on San Francisco and its famous cable cars. I often refer to image detail as high-frequency information. In this video, we'll start with a photo, and begin to simplify it by using the smart blur filter to remove the high-frequency detail. Here we go. We'll begin with this photograph, this is a shot I took in San Francisco a few years back, and the first thing we want to do, as I mentioned, is get rid of this high-frequency detail. So a lot of the little details, even in the background here, you can see almost individual leaves within these clusters. Or at least the clusters of leaves themselves. That's high-frequency detail and then it even gets more high-frequency when you get into all these little folds on the shirt, the details in the faces, that's all high-frequency. And what we'll do with this filter is get rid of a lot of that. And you'll see here, right now, just what I'm talking about. So first thing we'll do here is, I'm going to make a…
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