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| Someone asked me if I could show how to blur the background without using the quick mask method. I most certainly can and I thought I would sneak it in on the tail of the photoshop series instead of putting it somewhere else, so today is a rare Sunday post. I am sharing this technique using PSE today, it can be done in any photoshop program, and possibly even GIMP (the free PS type program) although I haven’t tried it in GIMP. So I started with this picture above. The background is a little blurred but we can blur it more. |
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| Start by selecting new layer, but this time you are going to duplicate layer. |
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| See the two layers open on the right hand side? I make the bottom layer (original pic) hidden by clicking the little eye next to the picture. Then with the eraser tool I erase what I want to stay in focus. So in this case my daughter, and I include the bubble wand in her hand. Since the bottom layer is hidden you will see it erase to nothing. |
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| Then I make the bottom layer visible again and while the top layer is still selected I select, “filter” then “blur” then “gaussian blur” then blur the background to your liking. |
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| Then flatten the image and you can tweak anything else you want with your now blurred background. Easy right? Now go get fancy with your photos! Enjoy! |
Amy
Yea! My first blurred background. <br />Thanks!
Missy
Thank you so much for showing the other way. I can actually do a blurred background now. I appreciate the bonus post.
Jennifer V.
I am curious, are the tips you give for PS and a lot fothe actions I see for sale applicable to PSE or just the big PS program?<br />[email protected]