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Defocusing backdrops in Photoshop
From the course: Adobe Green-Screen Workflow
Defocusing backdrops in Photoshop
- While you have the ability to apply a simple Gaussian blur inside of Premiere Pro After Effects, it doesn't really give you selective control, but if you're working with a still background, it's very easy to do this inside of Photoshop. In this case, I've opened up a backdrop, and I'm just going to duplicate the layer. I can do this by right-clicking on the layer and choose Duplicate Layer, and let's just call this BLURRED. Now, I'll select a tool here for blurring. It's located within this well and I'll just choose the Blur tool. If you use a right bracket key, it'll make a bigger brush, and the left bracket key is smaller. Just make sure you don't have the Caps Lock key depressed. Otherwise, the brush preview is hidden. Additionally, you can use shift + right bracket for a harder brush, and shift + left bracket for a softer brush. You'll notice that that's adjusting the controls here for hardness and size. This means that it's very easy to dial things in. So for example, using a…
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