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Masking a Blur Gallery effect

Masking a Blur Gallery effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking a Blur Gallery effect

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to add some depth to the dinosaur itself, once again using the Field Blur filter. But this time, combined with a highly accurate mask. So, notice here that his tail is out of focus, as is his left arm, to a lesser extent, and his left haunches, whereas his face and forward arm remain in sharp focus. And so, the first step is to switch over to our image in progress, and merge all of the visible layers onto a new one. Now, I'm a stickler for getting rid of filter masks when I don't need them, and it's going to become apparent why in just a moment. But, for now, I'm going to right-click on this white filter mask associated with the trees layer, and choose Delete Filter Mask. Or, if you loaded dekeKeys, you can press that keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + Alt + Q, or Cmd + Option + Q on the Mac. We don't really need this background, either, so I'll just press the Backspace key or the Delete key to get rid of it. And then, I'll click on the top layer in…

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