 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC tutorial. And this one, I'm going to show you how to add depth of field to a photograph. We're going to do it synthetically. We're not using a camera. We're doing this all in Photoshop. The other way to look at is background blur sometimes called. And we're going to do that really, really simply, really, really quickly. So the first step, if you're following along, is to get any old picture that you want to use with preferably with a person in it or something in the foreground versus the background. Like this guy sitting on the chair is foreground. And then you've got all this stuff in the background, for example. I got this off free pic.com. So this is a free image. If you want to use this image, go ahead and let's just get going. So we drag and dropped it and we've got our picture loaded. Now the next step here, guys, if you're following along, as you want to take this image and create a duplicate copy by dragging and dropping it over this little create layer or new layer option, create a new layer, that's what it's called. And we're going to work on the top layer. So the bottom layer, I am going to turn it off. Top layer, we're in good shape here, guys. The next step is you want to go up to select. Make sure you're clicked on this layer. Go to select and then select subject. And let's see if I can find that select subject. There we go. Guys, boom, Photoshop is going to do a little thinking. And it's going to go ahead and select the subject. Now I'm just going to click off of it. And you're going to see here that it did an OK job, but it didn't do a perfect job. That's OK. I'm not here to I'm not here to go over how to use the selection tool or part of me right here, the quick selection tool. But this is what I would do is I would make sure I'm clicked on the layer and then I would add the pieces that I want to be selected, as you can see here. So I'm just right clicking and sort of scanning over top of them pretty quickly here. I've got a very small brush size selected, and that's very deliberate because this is pretty touch and go type work. It's very easy to select way too much. And yeah, Photoshop is a little bit eager in the quick selection tool. If I'll just put it that way. So something like that I would select here now in a better world. I would take this piece out here and I would then add these legs on, for example, like this, but I'm doing this quickly. Yeah, OK, you know what? We'll just leave the maybe I'll just take the floor out like that. Add that leg back. It's something like that, guys. This is not the point. The point is, is that I just want to show you the technique. You guys should know how to do what I'm doing here. OK, let's see if I can take this out. Yeah, see, every time you do it, you got to be really tricky because it's finicky, so reduce that. OK, that's getting pretty close. Good enough. OK, guys. The next step here is we've got this all selected. Now we've selected him, but we want to blur the background, not him. I'm going to take this piece out here, too, actually, while I got you, because I don't want that light. And then, of course, we've got to add this in and take that out. What an unbelievably picky, finicky program at times. Is it all right? Good enough. Yeah, OK, good enough. So what we want to do here is we want to we've got him selected here. As you can see, he's selected inside of this, but we don't want that. We want the background. So you go to you go up to the top and under select you go inverse. Probably won't see what happened there. But what's happened is is now we've selected the background as opposed to him. Now, the next step is we want to go to filter and we want to go to blur gallery. And in this case, we want to put on a field blur. So I'm going to left click on field blur and you're going to see some cool stuff happen. The background got a little blurrier. As you can see, I'm going to increase the blur substantially because I want to make this effect very, very obvious. This isn't what I would do inside of a real picture or inside of a real Photoshop. But I just want to make sure you guys see the effect that we're going for. I'm going to hit OK on that. And then it's going to apply the field blur effect. And then we're going to deselect everything. And then you're going to see the the top version versus the bottom version. So I'm just going to zoom out a little bit here. I'm going to go to select, deselect. And now we've created the depth of field or the background blur, as you can see here. And then I'm going to turn the bottom one on and turn the top one off. This was the original. This is the background. We did that all inside of Photoshop. That's how you do depth of field. My name is Curtis Blake. I got a ton more tutorials coming up, guys. Thanks for watching. I'll be back soon.