{"id":576,"date":"2020-06-18T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitecosmoslog.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:57:59","slug":"have-all-the-controls-blurring-the-background-of-your-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitecosmoslog.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Have all the controls blurring the background of your image."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life would be very easy if we could make all things happen in one tap action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we don&#8217;t always have that option, fortunately, we have the option to <strong>work hard<\/strong> to achieve a successful result in any particular subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I talk about this image above, I learned to blur the background of it in Photoshop, which allowed a lot of options. Many apps have blur options, but they don&#8217;t let all access. Well, again you can find mistakes here and there in this photo because we can&#8217;t make things <strong>All Perfect<\/strong>, but what I&#8217;m trying to share &#8211; if you want to have complete control to work on a Photo, you have the option! &amp; an effort is all you need, also with some tricks we can deliver Beautiful works.. oh, &amp; did I mention Imagine? because Disney said &#8211;  If you can imagine it, you can do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now first let&#8217;s see if we only want to make the background blur, without destroying the foreground or, let&#8217;s just say the foreground should be entirely focused and we shall make the background blurry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do so &#8211; First I Opened up my Photoshop, Opened up this image &amp; made &#8211;<strong>Two copies of the image<\/strong> &#8211; That&#8217;s ctrl J two times. and I named one copy background &amp; another one foreground. First I disabled Background &amp; Background Copy &amp; enabled foreground Layer, then I selected the quick selection tool and clicked on the select subject ( this way Photoshop automatically selects the subject ) but it didn&#8217;t make the selection perfect, so I had to complete the selection by clicking alt( In windows) and drag it to make a selection. when the selection was completed I clicked on the layer mask and with the layer mask selected I clicked ctrl to bring back the selection, then I disabled the foreground layer and enabled the background layer. I had to make the selection expended, so I clicked on <strong>Select<\/strong> from the menu &#8211; <strong>Modify<\/strong> &#8211;<strong> Expend<\/strong>. then I made the subject disappear by clicking <strong>Fill <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>Content-aware<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I enabled the foreground layer, then selected the background layer &amp; converted the layer into a smart object. then I added a filter to the background layer by clicking Filter &#8211; Blur gallery &#8211; Field blur.  and there I found Tilt-Shift. and I actually worked with the <strong>Tilt-Shift<\/strong> slider alone to design this image, where you can see the top &amp; bottom of the image are blurry &amp; the subject is focused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2764<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Life would be very easy if we could make all things happen in one tap action. 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