GCM 738 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dialog Box, Workflow, Face Detection

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Graphic Communications
• Course: GCM 738
• Professor: Richard Adams

Document Summary

How to add dreamy blur and bokeh effects to your photos. Bokeh, in combination with field blur, creates stunning depth of field in photographs. Field blur produces a generalized blurring of background elements, but bokeh is especially popular for its characteristic circles of confusion, or renderings of unfocused light. These diffused light aberrations make any photograph look magical. Field blur and bokeh can be achieved using certain camera lenses, or with a few simple steps in photoshop. Field blur can be added to any image, but it looks best on images that already have depth of field with a distinct foreground and background. Once you choose your image, open it in photoshop, right-click the background area, and select convert to smart object. This will allow you to edit the image even after effects are applied. Select filter > blur gallery > field blur to open the field blur panel.