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Defocusing Background in Photoshop


At times you like some element or person to stand out from rest of the elements in a photograph. This can be achieved by defocusing unwanted or less important elements in the background.

We'll start by opening a flower shot. In this image we'd like our pink flower to stand out. We'll defocus the leaves and others flowers to achieve the required effect.

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Use lasso tool (L) to create a rough selection surrounding the pink flower.

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You can smooth out the selections by applying feather (Ctrl + Alt +D)

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From select menu click inverse ( Ctrl + Shift + I ). This will invert the selection.

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From filter >> blur>>gaussian blur.

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Use radius setting to achieve the proper amount of defocusing.

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The background is defocused now making our pink flower to stand out.

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Add your company logo and use it for your flyers, calendars or website home page.

Defocusing Background in Photoshop



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