I think this method will give to greater sense of depth but if you go to far it may become slightly sureal.
The bottom layer I would add my blur then I would crop out my subject from the top layer. PhotoPlus is not my tool of choice and I tend to use DrawPlus for everything I do however whatever program I was using I would duplicate my image on to a new layer. but that's probably getting a little bit technical for this thread! lol However, I sometimes start with a selection to create the mask. The problem with using just a selection is that it's really difficult to mimic a real camera lens. I simply tweaked the opacity of the brush before painting on the mask. If you look really closely at the edited version, you'll see that the legs furthest away, and the foxglove at approximately the same distance, have blur but less so than the background. At the same time, the plants were far to sharp to create a pleasing photo. I didn't want to go too shallow (burred) as it would have looked unrealistic.
Out of interest, this was the original pupster photo (before the crop and soft DOF in the background). Ichanged my mind, and applied a transparency square! The grass is a slight problem, so it might be better to use transparency in an ellipse, centre it on the dog, make the centre 100% and add another point on the radius at 100% then allow the picture to fade to 0%. I made a second copy of the picture on top of the first, cut the dog out of the top copy (not very precisely to save time), used the gaussian blur at about 9.5 on the bottom photo, and grouped them together again and exported as one picture. I used craft artist but I could do the same with photplus. I'll give your way a try when I have drawn my Creepie crawlie :>) Thanks for your reply too Sean :)- Nice easy way using the selection tool. I find it indispensable! I've kept it simple but if you want any more info, give me a shout. Mine's a slightly different approach to Sean's but it's worth learning. you may learn a tad more from trying these out!
If you go to our homepage and navigate to the very bottom of the page you will see a blue link typed Useful Links We had a stage of adding various tuts and tips in this section a few years ago. I will learn though, expect to hear from me a lot in the future! I am using Photoplus X4, and am struggling to be patient since I am new to photo editing. I will hopefully post the results here soon. That was extremely helpful thank-you Sean. Seanyriley45 (a group admin) edited this topic ages ago. I see that Caz is on the case whilst I have been doing this effort :>) I am not really all that clued up on PhotoPlus and others may comment further-but this works for me Then go to Effects from the toolbar menu and click on Blur and Blur More a few times till you are happy with the amount that the selection area has changed(blurred) in the example I use I have selected the bird and it's perch only, then when happy that I have done a reasonable job of this I then went to the Select menu of the toolbar and clicked on Invert This then selected everything but the bird and perch (the stuff I wanted to blur. On the other hand if it's quite a contrasting background you would have to use the Selection brush and painstakingly draw/select over either the stuff you want to keep in focus (ie Bird) or if its easier select/draw over the stuff you want to blur. If it's all one colour or very close colours it may be possible to use the magic wand. You can do this a few ways dependant on inspection of what you want to select! You have to select the area you want to blur first. This photo was taken using a fuji finepix and I faked the depth of field using the approach mentioned above.ĭuplicate your original image, so that any changes are on a new layer. I'll try and post a mini tutorial at lunch (uk time). The best thing is that you can easily correct mistakes. It's a really quick approach (5 min or so) and gives good results. I'd probably do this using a gaussian blur layer and a mask.
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Plain and simply, I want to blur the background of one of my bird images, but whenever I adjust something, nothing seems to even happen.Ĭan somebody please give me a very easy step by step approach as to how to blur my background - this is so freaking confusing :s
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