Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Six:
By the way, in case you missed the Tilt-
Shift project earlier in the chapter, here
are some shortcuts that you'll find handy:
press-and-hold the letter
M
on your key-
board to see the mask of your blur (you
can see a capture of what the mask looks
like back in the Tilt-Shift project), press
P
to hide the blur (press it again to bring it
back), and press-and-hold
H
to hide your
round pin thingy and any lines or dots
from view. Also, check Step Seven from
that same project for more Blur Gallery
tips. Okay, on to Field Blur. Open a new
image and choose
Field Blur
from the
Filter menu, under Blur. It places a pin in
the center of your photo that totally blurs
it entirely. Well, it's a start. For this image,
drag the pin over onto the roses.
Step Seven:
Next, click on the rings. Still blurry? Yup.
Luckily, you can control these two pins
separately, so either click-and-drag on
that gray-and-white ring around the pin
on the rings, or go to the Blur Tools panel
and drag the Blur slider all the way to the
left to 0 (zero; as shown here), and now
the rings are in sharp focus, but the roses
are still blurry. That's the way Field Blur
works—you place points and decide if the
area where you placed them will be sharp
or blurry, and if you choose blurry, you
get to choose just how blurry.
