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17 Gaussian Blur
Select your portrait base photograph and one other and complete the
tutorial below for each!
Targets:
Complete the tutorial for:
Portrait
One other photo
Make a composite before and after for each manipulation
Post both on your website
In this tutorial, I'll show you, in simple, easy steps, one of my favorite
techniques- one that I think looks incredible on almost any photo.
Step 3. Click the little black and white circle at the bottom of the Layers
Palette. A box will pop up. Click on "Channel Mixer." This adds an
adjustment layer to your copied layer, which will allow you to change some
settings on it.
Step 5. Right click the adjustment layer in the Layers Palette, then select
"Merge Down." This will apply the adjustments that we made on the
adjustments layer to the copy of the background image that we created
earlier, making a single layer.
Step 8. Now, use the "Radius" setting on the dialogue box that appears to
make the picture undesirably blurry, then click "OK." The picture should be
a little bit "too" blurry, but not unrecognizable. Here's the setting I used:
Notice the dreamy texture that is now present (the difference is a good deal
more noticeable at larger sizes. Sorry).
At this point you have a very nice photo, that simulates the effects of
infrared photography. However, we want to have a dreamy, color photo. So
let's continue.
Step 10. Now, we want the color to show through. To do this, we have to
make our "Background Copy" layer invisible, which is done by clicking the
eyeball next to its name in the Layer Palette.
This effect looks spectacular on every photo that I've applied it to. Here are
some other examples!
Mr. Maves