Photo Effects 16 May 2006 03:33 pm
Sunflower blur focus
I will teach you here how to use the Gaussian Blur filter obtaining a nice focus effect.
Start by saving this picture to your computer and opening it with Adobe Photoshop.
Using the Lasso Tool try making a contour of the centered flower like in the picture.
Then go to Select>Inverse.
You will obtain this.
Now go to Filet>Blur>Gaussian Blur.
There set this value.
And this is your effect using the gaussian blur.
on 06 Jun 2006 at 8:43 am 1.aman said …
Thanks for this
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thanks
on 06 Jun 2006 at 12:35 pm 2.Bob said …
The selection’s too large …. The Gaussian’s too “blurry” … Not the best i’ve seen ..
on 08 Jun 2006 at 11:42 am 3.Andra said …
WOW…super coll ! Thanks I didn`t now how to do that. I`m a beginner.
on 08 Jun 2006 at 11:57 pm 4.Wendy said …
Wow!
So easy! It needs a little bit of precision around the center flower, it was so easy and fast!
on 15 Jun 2006 at 1:52 pm 5.Chaoslight said …
Hey, some cool tuts you have here :p Only thing I can say is try and go into detail around the flower. It looks a bit out of place. Its pretty easy to do, just make a few selections with the magic wand tool, and is worth it in the end, for a better effect, otherwise a pretty good tut for beginners.
on 16 Jun 2006 at 10:27 am 6.nfox said …
try whit feahter when you have your selection .:)
but nice tut good and fast work nice you ! ^^
on 20 Jun 2006 at 6:35 am 7.Nate said …
You explain it well but prehaps it would look better if you did one of two things, Lighten up on the Gaussian Blur or usre a Lens Blur instead
on 21 Jun 2006 at 11:59 pm 8.pici said …
anyway……….thank you for your photoshop
on 24 Jun 2006 at 4:29 am 9.Kamlesh Jejure said …
Hello Sir,
Thanks for the great guidence me. I am the begginner to learn the photoshop. Your tutorial is the best guidence point for me.
So please give me basic tutorials for more parctice.
Thanks
As per Regards
Kamlesh Jejure
Graphics Designer
on 06 Sep 2006 at 2:04 pm 10.Monish said …
Fantastic…absolutely amazing and super cool!!
on 17 Sep 2006 at 4:00 pm 11.Vegard said …
A little feather and a little less blur and it would’ve been better
on 02 Nov 2006 at 11:05 am 12.Grafix said …
Please understand these tuts are for newbies I would like to see you create something COMPLICATED so I can see your level of expertise
on 27 Nov 2006 at 2:56 am 13.Kacper said …
Yeah… this is obviously for newbies. This tutorial leaves you with a picture that looks horrible.
Try this to make it look good:
1. Select with a PEN tool for a perfet selection.
2. Copy the selection onto a new layer
3. Go to the original layer and blur the whole thing with gaussian blur
4. Flatten image.
You get the “shallow DOF blur” that looks good, not like in this example where you have stray sharp pixels around the sunflower.
on 09 Jan 2007 at 6:20 pm 14.Jessica said …
Wow Thanks!