From the course: Photoshop for Video Editors: Core Skills
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The Lens Blur effect in Photoshop
From the course: Photoshop for Video Editors: Core Skills
The Lens Blur effect in Photoshop
- Sometimes when you're working with an image, you'd like to adjust the depth of field. Now, depth of field generally refers to the amount of area that's going to be focus in a photograph and when we say something has a shallow depth of field, it means that the background or objects that are further away tend to fall out of focus. This could be very attractive so that you draw the attention to the primary subject. But sometimes, this is really hard to do because of lighting conditions or other technical limitations. Fortunately, Photoshop has a versatile lens blur effect that allows you to tweak this. Let me show you when it works on stills and then we'll move into After Effects where we can apply it to video. We'll navigate here to folder 9A and open up these two Lens Blur options. Let's just bring those right into Photoshop. Let's start here with the first image. Now, this was taken at the Smithsonian at an…
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