Good morning, everyone! We have something super-special lined up for you today. A quick and easy lesson in making and managing Photoshop selections. In the video below, I’ll take you through how to make a clean, hard-edged selection for use with specific bokeh effects inside of Exposure.
Gotta give Robert Lounsberry props for the shot!
Making a selection like this controls Exposure’s blurring from the Bokeh panel. This is how we can make a realistic-looking shallow depth of field. Once your selection is complete–I use the Quick Selection Tool (W) in the video–save that sucker! There’s nothing worse than losing a selection that took you painstakingly long hours to make. Sure it only takes a few minutes in the video, but you get the idea. You’d certainly save a rough draft of an email, so you may as well get in the habit of saving your Photoshop selections, too.
This video was recorded in a new format with our fancy new setup in the recording booth. Let me know what you think of it.
-jimmy out
*drop the mic*
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Where’s the second part, video?
Still working on that one, Van. Should be done soon.
Nice work, Jimmy, but even more interesting is your editing booth…! How about discussing how you set that up? BTW: you missed a little bit of his nose… =:o)
Thanks,
Jerry
Hey Jerry!
Oh man, that booth was a beast in itself. It took a lot of elbow grease to setup and even more to move. We picked it up from http://www.whisperroom.com/ ;-)
where is the second video
We’re working on it right now, Norman. Thanks for your interest.
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Hello. I have now Bokeh 2 but I don’t want circles and elipse to use and to make focus and the rest bokeh. I want to do as I did until now, I select the part of the picture that I want do become bokeh to bring something in attention , after I select I went to bokeh choose the type and it became bokeh ( the background ) how can I do this with Bokeh 2?
Kind Regards,
Sabin Albei
You can use a selection in Photoshop to drive the focus effects in Bokeh 2 just like you described.