Depth of field to eliminate the 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.

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.

Click brush tool, Change brush size.

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

Using brush to ‘mask’.

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.

Change brush size to mask.

After 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

Change the masking mode.

Change the masking mode.

Step7: Duplicate your layer,

Duplicate layer.

Duplicate layer.

Duplicate layer.

Duplicate layer.

change the layer name to ‘blur’
Step8: Apply ‘gaussian filter’ or ‘lens blur’ to your blur layer.

Apply ‘gaussian filter’.

Apply ‘gaussian filter’.

Play with the radius for better result.

Play with the radius.

Play with the radius.

Here’s mine as you’ve seen it at the top page of this tutorial..

Final Image.

Final Image.

Any design and graphics help please visit Clippingimages.com.

-Credits: DPHOTOJOURNAL.com