How To Use Photoshop DEPTH MAPS to BLUR the Background (Shallow Depth of Field Effect)

In today's Photoshop tutorial I'm going to show you a useful technique for adding a realistic shallow depth of field effect to your photos. We'll use a Photoshop Depth Map to indicate which areas need to be blurred and by how much. This method gives you complete control over the effect, which makes it ideal for all kinds of photographs, no matter the perspective, or complexity of the background. By defining the sections of the image in grayscale tones, you can blur some areas more than others.



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[ArchyDolder]

Great tutorial! Thank you for your hard work sharing and explaining these techniques. That goes for all of your awesome lessons! Cheers!

[veteranJUGGERNAUT]

just successfully edited a pic using this, thanks a lot!

love from Nigeria!

[Tahar]

Nice tutorial, thank you so much for sharing it with us!.

[leon.sm]

wow im seriously impressed. works very well!

[fernandovazquezdjmanitas]

Hi, do you have any tutorial on matching color and lighting between two different images? Could you leave me the link in the comments? Thank you very much and merry christmas

[olegpogorelov]

Thank you for making your wonderful tutorials 😊 Happy New Year! All the best for 2020!

[Siabalix]

Thanks, that was really nice trick. I hope it will be nice :) for watching.

[mobilefreelancer]

I shall be checking this out also happy new year everyone

[akl]

Happy New Year Everyone!
Hope you have a fabulous 2020! 🤝

[lorddevy]

Thank you for this video. I have tried using this technique on a portrait photo where the subject is closer but the edges on the subject are too rough when applying blur. Could you please share how would you smoothen the selection edges for a smoother transition?

[sammylane]

What about cartoon images? How does this look on them?

[maximify]

Im on the german version and i don’t have the Lens blur, online it say that it’s supposed to be Tiefenschärfe abmildern, but I don’t have That option either, only the Gaussian blur etc

[Hareset]

So you're telling me i actually don't need a £1500 1.4 lens to do this? 😂 nice one.

[antoniocavalli]

Very cool video, but its easier for me to buy a lens