Creating the Depth Of Field to Eleminate Background

Depth of field to eliminate the background.

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create the depth of field to eliminate the background and make the butterfly and the flower stand out.
Step1: Load your file, by clicking on file>open

Step2: We’re going to edit the photo in quick-mask mode. Do this by clicking on the quick-mask mode button in your pallete

Edit in quick-mask mode.

Choose “selected areas” and change the opacity to 50%

Step3: Click your brush tool, choose black as your foreground color, change the brush size with the one that you’re most suitable with..In this case, I chose 100 pixel

Click brush tool, Change brush size.

Step4: Start using your brush to ‘mask’ your butterfly & flower.

Using brush to ‘mask’.

Step5: You’re going to need to change your brush size to mask every detail in the butterfly and the flower.

Change brush size to mask.

After mask.

Step6: When you’re finish with masking work, change the masking mode to standard mode by clicking the edit in standard mode button in your pallete