A tutorial on using Photoshop to quickly add a blur effect to the background of a character's photos

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1, open the material picture, the background layer to copy a layer, with lasso or pen tool to pull out the characters, get the figure shown in the selection.

2, open the "Adjust Edge" panel, from the following style to choose black and white, so that better preview the details of the edge changes, radius value in accordance with the specific situation of the film, here I choose 1.8 to smooth edge, reduce sawtooth.

3, then press CTRL + Shift + I to select the selection, press Q to enter the quick mask.

4, then select the "Gradient tool", the mode is set to "linear deepening", the other parameters by default, the gradient tool from the bottom of the photo gradient, how long the gradient, to see the photo needs to blur the scope of how large.

5, press the letter key "Q" Exit quick mask, the selection will naturally select the need to blur the background.

6, the last choice of "blur" filter, the Gaussian blur filter looks too fake, will make the effect become ugly, so choose the lens blur, create more like the lens produced by the Blur effect. This can avoid the complex background of the photos affect the overall effect of the photo, you can let the focus of the photo focused on the characters, in addition to the use of large aperture effect, fuzzy background in highlighting the characters at the same time can also create a particularly good picture atmosphere.

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