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craigster266
Joined: 14 Jul 2008
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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: blurring the background of a photograph |
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Hi, I realise this question has probably been asked a thousand times before, but if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be grateful. My problems is that I have a black and which digital image which has three subjects in the foreground. There are some people standing in the background which I want to blur. Through looking on the web, it appears that the way to do this is to create a new layer of the background via a cut, and then blur this layer. The trouble is that there seems numerous ways to cut around the figures in the foreground. None of which I've found entirely helpful. While I can achieve this reasonably accurately, how do I go around get stuff like hair to silhouette a person accurately? |
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LurkerPatrol
Joined: 19 Jun 2008
Posts: 26
Location: California
PS Version: CS3
OS: XP Professional
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Hey Craig,
I wouldn't bother cutting out the people in the foreground. It might make the process cleaner, but I would just simply take out the blur tool (R) and go nuts on the background. It's probably the more straightforward way of doing it.
If you'd like to cut the people in the foreground out, then I would use the pen tool to carve a path around the people in the foreground. Then Select that path and cut and paste into a new layer. That's one way.
The other way would be to open a quick mask (Q) and use the paintbrush to brush around the foreground people.
But for both, you wouldn't even have to cut out the foreground people. You could just select the people in the background using the above methods or select the people in the foreground and invert that selection (ctrl+shift+I or select > inverse) and the background people would be selected. Then simply go to filter > blur or filter > blur more and repeat the blur as much as seems fit.
Hope that helps
-LP |
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craigster266
Joined: 14 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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thanks, i'll give your methods a try and see how I get on |
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