1. After 2. Before Before you get started. Photoshop includes a handful of different options to blur a background, with each option offering a varying level of control — and level of difficulty.

How to blur a background in Photoshop. 1. Create a duplicate of your background layer. 2. Use the Select a Subject tool to highlight the main subject in your image. 3.

Knowing how to blur image backgrounds without affecting the image in Photoshop can be a very practical and useful feature. This feature can be used to enhance the image. When the background is ...

With Photoshop's Blur Tool you can put the focus on the foreground. Getty A photo with a busy background can be distracting and divert attention away from your subject.

The latest Photoshop update has delivered a new beta tool called Depth Blur, which lets you choose different focal points and blur the background of photos after they've been taken. Like a ...

What Can the Lens Blur Tool Really Do? My bare-bones kitbag only contains a 50mm 1.8 STM Canon lens and a 10-18mm Zoom lens. Photoshop's Lens Blur feature, now part of the Camera Raw panel, lets ...

Click "Filter," select "Blur," and then click "Field Blur." Photoshop blurs the image's background and keeps the object you selected in focus. Click "OK" to apply your changes, and then press ...

We all know Photoshop is a powerful tool. In two tutorials, I'll take you through how to use Photoshop CS3's Lens Blur filter to do two things: today, we'll make images look like they were shot ...

Yesterday, I showed you how to simulate a photograph taken with a tilt-shift lens by using Photoshop CS3's Lens Blur tool. Today, we'll do something a bit more practical: clipping out an object ...