On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll try that. > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >>> >>> I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like >>> the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too >>> busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the >>> background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like >>> this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? >>> >>> >>> http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS >> >> Steve, I think that came out fairly well, but there's a light hazy white >> halo around that flower that looks out of place and rather gives away the >> photoshopping. But that's not too hard to fix. >> >> When you cut out the flower to isolate it off the layer you're going to >> blur, you probably left a transparent cutout where the flower was. When you >> blur the layer, the transparent hole acts like white and mixes in with the >> green shades to lighten them near the flower. >> >> So, after you cutout the flower, use the clone brush to duplicate some of >> the green background surrounding the cutout into the cutout area; basically >> create more background *behind* where the flower was. Then blur that whole >> layer and superimpose the flower back over it. >> >> The other thing you can do is use layer effects to darken the edges of the >> flower a little. >> >> I think it's worth another pass to improve on the effect to make it more >> real. >> >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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