Depth of Field is What You Need – Basix
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Depth of Field is What You Need – Basix

on May 11th 2011 with 27 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 6 Minutes

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This entry is part 20 of 29 in the Photoshop Basix Session
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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 20: Depth of Field is What You Need – Basix will explain Gaussian blur as a smart filter to simulate shallow focus. Let’s get started!

 
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  • Jam

    Thanks for your wonderful tutorials… all of them are easily understood by a noob like me (who happens to be scared of using photoshop ‘coz there are lots of buttons/icons and i might damage/destroy my pictures). But with your tutorial, everything seems to be so easy.

    two thumbs up for you and five stars.. =)

    thanks again!

  • Christian

    Really helpful! Thanks for sharing… :-)

  • Nick

    The Photoshop Basix tutorials are really great. I’ve used Photoshop for a really long time but still learn a lot from these videos. Keep up the great work. I’ve passed the link to these videos on to friends learning Photoshop. Wonderful resource/starting point.

  • http://slayyou2.deviantart.com/ emmanuel umukoro

    lol you might want to use the lens filter since your trying to approximate a photographic technique :D

    • 7

      I was going to mention this as well, however the lens blur filter cannot be applied to a smart object (not to my knowledge, at least. I’d test it in CS5 at home, but here at work we’re still in the stone ages with CS3).

      • http://www.amyvitale.com Amy

        You are able to select a layer, go to Filter > Convert for Smart Filters and it changes the rules.

        Thanks to David Cross I learned all about smart objects.

  • http://manuelrocha.co/ Manuel

    Absolutely amazing effect, and it’s so easy to do! – thanks for sharing! / Btw, i think the blur effect can be less intense, maybe to make it more realistic… :)

  • Steve

    Another great tutorial. Great insight into using Smart objects. I’d always done this by cutting the object I wanted to have in focus and pasting to a new layer then blurring the original layer. This way is much better and more flexible.

    Can’t wait for the next tutorial. Cutting out flyaway hair is a real bugbear of mine.

  • Vitres teintées

    Clear tutorial, many thanks :)

  • http://www.wkndphotos.com/ Noushad

    Thnx a lot :)

  • http://www.nichterdesign.com Ed

    Thanks, good stuff!

  • http://www.lembryk.pl lembryk.pl

    Thx.

  • nialfo

    thanks for the tutorial, very clear, in the right mood and speed… Perfect!

  • http://de.fotolia.com/p/206566/partner/206566 Koka Kola

    Your english sounds so cool … I Like it :)

  • http://bonuspakarbisnesprinting.com/ Zulhilmi Zainudin

    Very great video! The explanation is really nice n easy to understand. I’m happy to watch it again n again :)

  • http://www.mundocaco.com MundoCaco

    I Love your tutorials, very easy to follow, very effective. :D

  • Trevor

    Another great Tut. thanks and keep them coming.

  • http://www.knightcreative.co.uk Danny

    Absolutely brilliant! And I never comment on anything…

  • Yimi

    Amazing, thank you very much from Peru!

  • http://codendesign.blogspot.com nXqd

    Thanks for great tut :)

  • http://cargocollective.com/jeffspades Jeff Spades

    Indeed a nice little tutorial to show how to use smart objects.

    The problem in this particular example is that when you want to blur a picture to emphasize some part of it, the gaussian blur is not the proper way to do it! Especially when you use gradients in the mask (like for the tilt-shift simulation technique): you can see the sharp edges of the original picture overlayed by the blurred one, which gives this weird glow effect…

    What you should use is the Lense blur, after having made your gradient selection with the quick mask for example.

    I’ve made an example to show the difference: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/gaussianvslense.jpg/

    Just try it out on a picture!

  • http://www.facebook.com/innocentk1 Innocent Khan

    Its a Nice tutorial … Thank you so much ,,,,, hope to see ur tuts on Lightroom 3 :)

  • http://2000ah.blogspot.com/ Edward

    Another fantastic tutorial.

  • http://maverickblair.net Maverick

    Where did you get the photo of the railroad bridge?

  • x

    Thanks for nice tut..

  • http://www.poese.org xblogger

    thanks for the video. really easy to imitate

  • http://www.ilordz.tk Kandeel

    I want this picture please