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[CS6]
Hi, and welcome.
My name is Julieanne Kost, and we're going to take a look at the new ways
that you can selectively blur your images in Photoshop CS6.
Let's start with this image, and I'll go under the Filter menu.
I have assigned a keyboard shortcut to Field Blur,
but selecting any one of these, either Field, Iris or Tilt-Shift
will bring up these onscreen controls.
You'll see over here on the right-hand side here's my blur tools.
It automatically chose Field Blur, but we can toggle that off for a moment
and instead go over to the Tilt-Shift option.
Now, we get an overlay on top of the image,
and we can reposition this Tilt-Shift blur
by dragging in the center point.
We can also make the blur greater or less
by dragging the wheel here, or of course,
you can move over to the panel and change the Blur slider.
We can also rotate the blur either by clicking on
one of these circles, or you can actually click anywhere
outside of this area and drag in order to rotate this.
Now, if I just click, I'm going to actually add
a second Tilt-Shift blur, so I don't want to do that.
I'll hit the Delete key, and that will get rid of that one,
and we'll come back to our original pin that we laid down,
and I'll just reposition that on top of this flower.
Now you can see that I can change the width
of area that I either want to be unaffected,
to not have the blur, and in this area right here
is going to be the transitional area between what's not affected
and what is completely affected by whatever value
I put in the Blur slider here.
Let's go ahead and just rearrange these a little bit.
I'm going to scoot this one out so that the flower
is not blurred here, and then I'm going to make this a little bit shorter
so that it quickly blurs the rest of the image.
If I want to see what this looks like without the interface,
I can tap the H key to temporarily hide it.
If I want to add the bokeh effect,
I can use my Blur Effects panel down here
and move the Light Bokeh slider over to the right.
Now, I want to make sure that I have a lot of blur applied
so that we can see this effect.
As I scoot it over further and further,
you'll start to see the circles appearing in my image.
If I wanted to add a little bit more color to those,
I could use the Color slider underneath.
I can also tell Photoshop exactly what the range is
where it should start making this effect.
I'll go ahead and keep it right around 200 there.
I can also tap the P key to turn the preview on and off.
As soon as I'm satisfied we'll hit Return,
and Photoshop will go ahead and apply that filter.
As we can see, there was the before, and there's after,
and you can see that by blurring all of those distracting elements,
we're really able to focus more on the primary subject of the image.
Okay, let's go ahead and move over to this next image here.
I'll use the customized keyboard shortcut, the Command B
that I assigned, and again, I'm going to switch from Field Blur,
but this time I'm going to go down to the Iris Blur option.
Now, let's go ahead and turn up the blur
so that it's really heavy so we can see what's going on.
Similar to the Tilt-Shift, we have the pin in the middle
where we can move around the center, and that would be the area
that's not blurred.
We've got the wheel, so we can dial in how much blur we want.
And then we can make the larger circle out here
as large or as small as we want to obviously encompass
more or less area in the image.
These small pins determine the transitional area,
so you can see when I move them into the center
there's kind of a slower transition between what is not blurred
and what becomes blurred.
As I move them out to the edge, it becomes a little bit more abrupt.
But one of the great things that you can do is hold down the Option
or the Alt key, and then as you drag the pins
they move independently.
This enables me to reposition them a little bit better.
In addition, I can change this outer shape
and make it more rectangular by clicking on this
square icon here.
Then if I position my cursor outside of it,
I can click and drag in order to rotate it.
Again, be careful because if you simply click,
you'll add a second iris blur.
I don't want that, so I'll tap the Delete key,
and then I'll click on the initial blur in order to activate it again.
Now I'll hold down the Option key, and I'll just scoot in
these 2 dots and maybe the bottom one as well,
but I'll go ahead and elongate the one up here
so that it covers the ear.
Again, I need to click and rotate just a little bit to position that,
and then we can tap the H key to hide it
and the H key to bring it back.
Obviously we've overdone it a little bit here,
so I'll just bring back the amount of blur.
Now by tapping the P key we can turn on and off
the preview, so there's before, and there's after.
That might be a little too subtle, so let's increase the blur.
There's before, and there's after.
You can see this is a really quick way to add
a blur with kind of a little bit more control maybe
than the Tilt-Shift, but let's delete this for a minute
and go up to the Field Blur because the Field Blur is actually the blur
that you're going to have the most control over.
Just like the other blurs, you can set down as many pins as you want.
Let's start here in the upper left.
I know I want this area to be very blurry,
so I'll go ahead and dial that in.
Then the lower right I probably want about the same amount,
so let's dial that in as well.
But obviously over the bunny I don't want it to be blurred,
so I'll remove the blur from that pin,
and I'll click in the upper right.
We'll go ahead and blur that, and the lower right,
and we'll blur that as well.
Now I think probably this one is a little too blurred,
so we can back off, and this one too.
You can see how adjustable these are, and in fact,
if you tap the M key, you can actually see the mask
that's being drawn, so in this area where the mask is black,
we are protecting that area, so there's no blur being applied.
Where the mask is white, it's absolutely being blurred,
and as we reposition these pins--
let me just move one really close for a moment, tap the M key again--
you can see that Photoshop has automatically changed the mask,
so it's interactively making the transition between
the different amounts of blur that are being applied to each one of the pins.
Obviously, this one is a little bit too close, so let's go ahead and move that
back away, and I'm also losing the blur right here
on his little whiskers, so let's add another pin,
remove the blur there.
We'll add another pin up here to the ear
and remove the blur there, and without spending too much time
doing this, I think you guys can see what's happening.
Again, if I tap the M key, we can see that mask.
Tap the M key and it goes away, and of course,
I'm kind of overdoing it here because each one of these pins
has such a significant blur applied to it
you would probably be a lot more subtle in your work,
but let's go ahead and just tap Enter or Return to apply that
so that we can see the before and after.
You can see I really added probably way too much blur,
but I just wanted to make sure that you could see
how extreme you could take this effect.
There's a quick view of the Iris, the Tilt-Shift,
and the Field Blur in Photoshop CS6.
My name is Julieanne Kost. Thanks for watching.
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