From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Filters

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Add a Bokeh effect

Add a Bokeh effect - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Filters

Start my 1-month free trial

Add a Bokeh effect

“

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how we can add bokeh to an image. These are discs of transparent light that work on the specular highlights. If we take a look at the starting state of the image, it looks like this. It already has some of that going on in the background, which makes a good candidate for this effect, and I want to accentuate that, and I'm doing that with a combination of filters, the field blur and oil paint, and you'll see why we need both. I'll now come to the starting image, and let's begin by converting the background layer to a smart object, right click to the right of the layer name, convert to smart object. Then, let me just show you what happens without the application of the oil paint filter and why we need it. I'll come to blur gallery. The first time I tried this, I tried it with iris blur, which allows us to maintain the focus of the poppy in the foreground, and then blur just the background. Actually, I got a better result by going to…

Contents