Photoshop help
Photoshop help
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Faking depth of field?
Not a one-click thing but a relatively easy way is just to duplicate the base layer and blur it a lot. apply a bottom-top gradient as a mask (black to white) so you get the in focus bit roughly as you want it. Then paint over the mask where the object blurs when it shouldn't.
One flaw with the result is that the edges get blurred (dreamlike).
With a tablet this gets very quick to do. For a magazine e.t.c the result isn't good enough (which is why they have the photographers do this in the first place) but for a family wedding sort of a thing most people see it as impressive.
This example doesn't look great, but that's partly because it took around about 5 minutes to do from opening the file to saving it.
