Post Your Photoshopped Before and After Images

not my images, i just got them off google to practice on

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I generally hate "fake blur" and prefer to get real DoF blur in camera with a wide open lens. (fake blur all too often just looks .... fake ... especially around the edges)

HOWEVER, one plug-in that I sometimes like to use is Nik's Bokeh 2. This image isn't meant to show off any spectacular editing or anything ... I primarily want to show off Bokeh 2 (with some other little touch-ups here and there).

Before:

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your before image isnt showing for me

OneEyedJack wrote in post #11615293
your before image isnt showing for me

How about now?

yup, looks good now!

dwterry wrote in post #11615233
I generally hate "fake blur" and prefer to get real DoF blur in camera with a wide open lens. (fake blur all too often just looks .... fake ... especially around the edges)

If you are having trouble with a realistic blur try this:
-Duplicate Photo Layer
-Gaussian Blurr this layer to your satisfaction
-Transparency mask the layer with a gradient (this erases some parts of the blurred layer to help keep your detail where you want it underneath that layer)
-Adjust opacity as needed

Generally bokeh acts like a gradient and starts slightly blurry and moves towards a much bigger blur. The gradient creates a similar effect while adjusting opacity keeps you in control of how strong your blurr is.

DanielFotografie wrote in post #11617356
If you are having trouble with a realistic blur try this:
-Duplicate Photo Layer
-Gaussian Blurr this layer to your satisfaction
-Transparency mask the layer with a gradient (this erases some parts of the blurred layer to help keep your detail where you want it underneath that layer)
-Adjust opacity as needed

Generally bokeh acts like a gradient and starts slightly blurry and moves towards a much bigger blur. The gradient creates a similar effect while adjusting opacity keeps you in control of how strong your blurr is.

The reason I generally don't like fake blur is that it never looks real around the edges of the subject. If you have an image where there is a sense of distance (foreground, subject, background) and the subject is standing up (meaning the top of the subject is further from the background than his feet are) then the edges of the subject tend to look all wrong. The background near the subject's head should be more blurry than the background at his feet. And fake blur tends to either ignore this fact, or if it attempts to compensate (by using a gradient) then the areas where the subject and the background meet (talking pixels here) tend to look wrong. (sorry, I don't have any images to show, but hopefully you get the idea)

Bokeh 2 does a nice job .... but in many images, still too fake to fool the eye.

WOW!

New one from tonight! I love doing these. lol

Here is the before

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^^^Love the snow blowing shot! I wish we had snow, I'd love to try it!

Another with a 'new' hand. lol

Grendizer wrote in post #11613499

How does one due these tones ?

LisaJH wrote in post #11653061
^^^Love the snow blowing shot! I wish we had snow, I'd love to try it!

Another with a 'new' hand. lol

thats good work

lisa- teach me your ways! that hand thing is awesome! never done a swap before!

love the snow one too! that isn't real snow is it?

amytug wrote in post #11659000
lisa- teach me your ways! that hand thing is awesome! never done a swap before!

love the snow one too! that isn't real snow is it?

Not to answer for Lisa, but one way to do it, if you have two very similar images is to use layers. Layer the two images and use a layer mask to combine them.

And in my image, if it's the one you are talking about with the "snow", no, it's blue and silver glitter.