Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Cool Stuff / Create Depth of Field
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Now let me show you something here about how to adjust your image to a more focused attention on the subject when you have clutter in the image. This is kind of a cool thing to do; it is very simple and we can achieve what I am talking about, we could focus more attention on the subject by simply cropping. Let us take a look at that, I mean it is an option, I mean if you know that is what you wanted to do, you could do it that way. Okay, so now we have a photograph of two girls playing with a puppy. Right, and we have got a little something back here and we do not know what that is, but that is not important. But we could kind of expand the photo, now it looks very crowded, just does not look right. We could add to the photo, we could add to the story the photo tells by extending up the crop to include some of the background. And now instead of these just two girls playing with a puppy, we have two girls playing with a puppy at a camping trip or some sort of picnic. But yet it is cluttered, there is too much going on around the girls that I think distracts your eye from focusing on the subject. Now one of the ways we could go about taking care of this, is to go up and get our magnetic lasso tool and go all the way around all these edges. Inevitably on that much real estate to travel around, you are going to make a mistake, you'll have to start over. I mean you could spend tons of time trying to do that and even then it probably would not be right because we have a lot of dark areas up here and nothing to adhere too. We have areas down here, we have the tail of the dog back here which is, you know, it is going to be a nightmare to trace this right here. So the easy way to do this is to circumvent all that and just create another layer. And then we take that layer and we fuzz it up. We give it a hardcore Gaussian blur just like that and we create, or actually, what we are doing is creating depth of field. Alright, we let that apply, then we come over and we reach our eraser tool and we expand it and make sure your opacity is a 100%, because we are going to erase the blurred background to reveal the sharp background, background copy rather. Watch what happens. And we can bring out the sharpness and we reduce the size of your brush, so that you can get in tighter around the top of the head, around the edge of what it is that you want to fix. Get the dog's tail out there, out here in the bottom and bring that back. Can see what we have done? What we have done is to effectively create depth of field so that our focus is on the girls and not the clutter. Now we still have those images there, they still contribute to the story of the photograph, but clearly the focus of your eye and the attention is on the girls, which is where it should be. Focusing your subject in the photograph better, get a layer and get it out of focus and then erase the top layer. Works every time.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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