Hello, can I use photoscape to digitally blur the background of a photo?
why dun use your lens to achieve the background blur effect (aka bokeh)?
shooting at wide aperture (google or search this forum what i means) to achieve this.
your lenses especially 50mm f1.8 is more then capable enough to do it.
Noticed that you asked specifically about Photoscape and not Photoshop, I don't use it often but i have it in my office computer so i fiddled around a little.
Try this:
Hope this solves your problem!
- Open your photo in photoscape
- Select Filter > Region (out of focus) (you have to click on the triangle beside "Filter")
- Choose between types Radial, Horizontal, vertical etc (on the top tabs)
- Click on the area you want to retain in focus (position the crosshair)
- Use the sliders for Levels, Size and Feather to adjust the effect
- If your image is complicated, you can do this in many repeated steps, i.e. slowly get different regions out of focus until you are satisfied
because as a junior employee and a part-time student, i cannot afford photoshop after i bought my camera and dry cab.. hehe.
so i'm using photoscape - free.. hahaha
thanks tortoise bro. i'll try it tonight..
It can be done - duplicate background layer, select via lasso, or what ever means u want, feather to suite how subtle you want the effect, guassian blur amounts to suite your taste. Now the hard part is to make this look believable...
There's this plugin for Photoshop by Alienskin called Bokeh. It does a good job.
The edge of the red sun not properly done.
Gaussian blur is not the way to go. Read this thread carefully. (Also, scroll down for illustrations that show why Gaussian blur doesn't work for blurring a background.)
The edge of the red sun not properly done.
Nice text book example how would this work in real world work
If so, what the devil are you talking about? "Upmanship"????Dude I understand you are pitching here for work, it is better to let your works (quality) speak for you . Upmanship is not a good route to use - people in the industry have long memories.
OK, here's a real world example: a purple lion (very conspicuous 3D dude). The client says: "I want the lion razor sharp and the background really blurry -- and I don't want any purple halos around the lion. Can you do that?"
Let's see what you can do.
Is this directed to me?:
If so, what the devil are you talking about? "Upmanship"????
I'm a photographer not a retoucher so this is unlikely to happen real world for me
It can be done - duplicate background layer, select via lasso, or what ever means u want, feather to suite how subtle you want the effect, guassian blur amounts to suite your taste. Now the hard part is to make this look believable... making it look unrealistic and scream this has been doctored is easy. U can do this in stages and or sections to try to escape detection, and could try different layer with different opacities to blend. There is no real one true way to do this seamlessly but rather the image will drive the method used.