Photoshop: Background Blur

[pookiewood]

Thanks! A different way of doing it that looks better. I usually use gaussian but I like the look of this better. The only thing is that I have the Halo effect and when I follow your step to get rid of it it ends up deleting the whole layer. It's still selected as if I'm selecting part of the gradiant.

[Celestisun33]

THANK YOU! I knew there had to be a way to do this. I tried looking for a "progressive blur" and just couldn't find what I was looking for until I stumbled across your video. This tool will be invaluable to me.

[ciaramc29]

thank you this really helped me

[Lubunya555]

I am happy that this guy is not a teacher otherwise he would create  army of nerds .

[erinhir]

When I load my selection and click on delete, my blurred layer is deleted. Using cs4. Anyone?

[jeanlucpepin]

Excellent. Just a bit quick. What kind of feather value is needed for the selection ? and I do not understand what reloading the selection and hitting the delete key does to remove the halo.

[Hamzah41081]

Use low aperture value in your camera settings. Like f/1.8 or 2 for example.

No photoshop needed.

[Mystro71187]

Thanks!

[locababy2]

We were supposed to save the selection? Oh no!! I can't remove the halo now!! >.< Well, everything was understandable and perfectly clear!! Thanks for the tutorial!! Us noobs would be lost without you generosity and kindness ^_^

[littlebui91]

how can you copy and paste to the alph?

[tanzy7]

Awesome I can do the same with Gaussianblur..just what I needed. Great tutorial :D

[SuperCrazyKillah]

what did u press to get new layer?

[waffle1997]

@SuperCrazyKillah CTRL + j

[SuperCrazyKillah]

@waffle1997 ok thx

[mneEddie]

Good tutorial, but there is a much simpler way

[ultraphoennix]

THnaks alot subcribe 

[mozhiyath]

thnks... super

[ArabicaBill]

It took me a couple of attempts, but I got good results - thanks!

[kevinonaroar]

This is a really long way to do this.

[mraboobad]

thx man this is nice !

[TechShowON]

Checkout easier tutorial at my channel!

[TomxLx93]

This is an incredibly difficult method.

[sharagim1]

@TomxLx93 yeh it"s very difficult method to learning, but i love your portreit retouching tutorial.

thanks anyway



[PHGenxKobayashi]

It's very helpful. THANKS A LOT! WOOO.

[mlamiller025]

very helpful

I eventually will use photoshop, currently i have lightroom 2, but having a hard time finding how to do it with that.

[kingyemen300]

You make it hard ...!!!!!!!!

[geckie112009]

The stupid difference won't work for mine.

[willieofroanoke]

Of course you can get much more creative, depending on what filters you use. Like radial blur which will make it look like who's ever in the foreground is coming out of a vortex. Try combining filters, while the background is still selected after you blured the background using radial blur next add filter/texture/stained glass. The choices are unlimited!

[willieofroanoke]

After I stopped laughing over how needlessly complex this guy made it, I offer a much simpler way.

Use the lasso tool to select your foreground subject, then invert to select background, then Filter, pick blur, Gaussian, adjust slider riight to adjust for desired amouunt of blur. You're Done.

[EdwardsNH]

@willieofroanoke Yes, your quicker method will work, but it will not look 1/10th as good. The method he is showing here will do a great job of producing that shallow depth of field effect, whereas your method will just blur the background.

[Mickster6988240]

Yeah, but the extra steps this guy is going through give the appearance of less blur near the focal area and more at the near and far extremes.

[danielodors]

@willieofroanoke - After I stopped laughing over how needlessly complex you made it, I offer a much simpler way.

Blur it with the lens on your camera when you take the picture. You're done.

I'm just making the case that you are mixing apples with oranges. Yes, you offered a simple way to blur things, unfortunately, it is not relevant to the kind of results this fellow is offering. Gaussian blur gives super shitty results, photographically speaking. Gaussian blur doesn't even replicate bokeh.

[Hammersmith80]

@willieofroanoke I couldn't stop laughing at how laughably pathetic and ignorant your comments are. Using the lasso tool is fine for simple selections with high contrast however it doesn't work for the majority of shots and really using the lasso tool just goes to show your level of knowledge. It didn't occurr to you to create an accurate alpha channel using dodge and burn which gives you far more control and accuracy than the lasso tool. Thick know-nothing pricks like you are all over the web.

[willieofroanoke]

@Hammersmith80 Really? I can't stop laughing at some asshole like you that needs to try to pump up his ego by replying to a comment I made a YEAR ago. Damn, you're a special kind of fuckwit I guess. There's dozens of ways to do what amounts to the same thing. Now I suggest you try hard to pull your dumb fat head out of it's current position, shoved up your shit encrusted ass. You rate ***** on the asshole scale.

[Hammersmith80]

@willieofroanoke Posts the angry insecure little boy.

Pumping ego is something you do on a regular basis

judging from the absolute fucking shit you write in

these threads. You "offer" nothing. A bag of scum

like you should be removed from the gene pool.

Go thump a wall you ridiculous irrelevant small minded ceptic little cunt.

[willieofroanoke]

@Hammersmith80 Anger? No, your obvious grandstanding trying to make a big deal out of what a total stranger said a year ago. Wow, doesn't the term "get a life" have any meaning to you? Maybe somebody pissed in your oatmeal? What's your problem, Bubba?

Oh, btw, I chew up and spit out assholes like you every day. Its a hobby. What can I say. Now run along, or flap your gums some more if that's what turns you on, I'll just be laughing at you.

[Overclocked92]

When I load selection and press the delete key for removing "heilo?" it deletes my whole blured background on that layer.What's the problem ? :)

[varun47]

Wow, that's a lot more complicated than I thought.

[harrygamer]

That would be kl with linear gradient

[harrygamer]

LOL you left out her foot

[funniq]

Greet tut ... is this also possible with Elements???

[speye57]

Great tutorial but I'm having trouble with the haloing, I followed your instructions but when I hit the delete key or the backspace button it erases the selected portion of my image.

[cpcregion]

@speye57 Try loading the selection, then inverse the selection. You want the object/person in the middle, not the background selected.

[StandOutSocialMedia]

Thank you! Great lesson!

[GaolisVideoLog]

Each step is very easy to perform. It's the sheer number of steps that makes this program so difficult.

[beckymb1]

what is commander control J?

[p3rs0n42]

@beckymb1 command J or control J

[tacomanfan344]

Mac has a Command key, lol (i would know)

[diegotvmx]

Cant get rid of the halo or glow whatever u call it... help please.

[Marshall274]

@diegotvmx he said, select your layer and then just press delete a few times. worked for me

[diegotvmx]

@Marshall274 Thats not working for me, is there any other way to get rid of the glow?

[Marshall274]

@diegotvmx have you tried pulling the layer that isnt blured ontop of the layer that is? that should then make the halo go because the unblured image is ontop of the blurred image.

[annsophie187]

CTRL+Y for mac and for win?

[ahyolmu]

Very neat trick indeed

[InvictusV1]

It doesnt place the background it places the thing a circled

[useurcamera]

a little complicated but its good o_0

[chrismostert0]

good video, a'ight!

[razorzv8]

Hi, I have adobe photoshop 7.0 but I don't have lense blur on gaussian. Is there somewhere I can download it? Thank you

[fashiondegaine]

I cant get rid of the halo at the end, any help?

[fashiondegaine]

I cant get rid of that halo at the end...

[Mauchka1]

Good Job

[akanou77]

I didn't quite understand how you got rid of the glow... any more help? Thanks

[fritzmiguelrigonan]

i can't copy it....when i go to edit copy can not be selected...did i go wrong..if yes where?

[h4z4Rd3r]

i'm sorry, english isn't my native language, so i couldn't understand what is said about removing halo. "...and then all we have to do on this layer right here is just hit the..." can you please write it. thank you

[j0epayne]

He says to load the selection you had before, select it and then just hit the delete key.

[j0epayne]

Also, he says you may need to hit delete a number of times for it to work.

[Overclocked92]

@j0epayne I have done that. But when I press delete key it deletes my whole selected blured background. Not only hailos...

[Overclocked92]

@h4z4Rd3r Load selection and than press the "delete" key a couple of times. :)

[tanwk123]

hi mind teaching me how to do some blur reduction for my pics? cos i am using low quality camera that why my photos came out very blur i wan to make it look more better can u teach me ways to improve my pic away from those blurs?

[pansy1231]

I learned a lot from this video. thanks.

[undien717]

Nice tutorial.

[cheeselover]

gaussian blur looks like five times better when i do it than the lens blur you just used. wow.

[memiegoo]

thanks.. i like the video

[Pistagen]

Really good video!, Thanks alot mate.

[Kavaltheone]

very nice