[Lombi]

15: Using The Lens Blur Filter



This free video tutorial will teach you how to mimic depth of field effects using Photoshop CS's new filter called Lens Blur. You will be learning the usage of the lens blur filter, creating alpha channels with the quick channel 101, drawing inside the alpha channels, selecting and filling color in the alpha channels, ... This is the second in the series of Lombergar.com tutorials that teach you the new features of Photoshop CS.

http://www.lombergar.com/tutorials.php
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Looking for surreal art prints or some surreal art?

[Mikko K]

Do you also have 'using the lens flare filter' tutorial?

[Lombi]

No, I don't have that, mate.
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Looking for surreal art prints or some surreal art?

[Impaler]

Just out of curiosity, why put your tutorials in a video form?

It seems that 75kb worth of text and jpg's would tax your server and the connections of dial-up users slightly less than giant Quicktime movies.
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QED, sort of.

[Lombi]

Well i can answer that with another question ... why go watch any of the three Lord of the Rings movies when you can read all of them in books?
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Looking for surreal art prints or some surreal art?

[jr]

thanks for the tutorial lombi, it was very neat and helpful.
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[DJorgensen]

Hmmm... then why read books at all? Why not use our own imagination and...

I am personally on Dial-up. Not much fun either (nor is it by choice).

Not that it really matters though. If you wanted to make the horizon of a photograph (or single layer image) more blurry to epmhasize depth, just a simple lasso, maybe feather and gaussian blur (or possibly mothin blur) at a couple of different 'distances' would likely be sufficient. If you needed help with this look at Pierre's works.
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[Mikko K]

To clarify my first post, I was only making a point about depth of field blur being as overused as lens flares. Paintings do not need them, they're both just simple camera effects..

[Ian Jones]

DJorgensen: Lens blur in photoshop is a bit more complex than that. It's essentially a 'compound blur' that is a blur based upon a greyscale image indicating varying amounts of blur. This is of course very useful in particular for post production of 3D still images. Render out a z-depth channel and use the lens blur in photoshop as a quick and dirty way of reduciing render times and allowing flexibility.

[Drew]

[Mikko K]

But I HAVE seen them

[Drew]

[Mikko K]

Haha, I was kidding of course.

[Czar]

Hey lombi, great stuff you got there, or should I say, ima� jako dobre stvari tamo
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hmmmm

[jfrancis]

From what I understand about the Photoshop CS lens blur, the point is that it is a an attempt to capture true camera blur, complete with bokeh apparent in pinpoint highlights, and not just the gaussian blur people usually use.



Here's a picture of a light I have. In one case, I blurred a sharp photo of it using gaussian blur. In the other case, I photographed it out of focus. Is that what this filter does -- mimic the true camera out-of-focus look?

[Meaty Ogre]

wow, that's a big differance.