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I love the NX20 but....

Started Dec 14, 2014 | Discussions thread
OP Kaziklu Senior Member • Posts: 1,301
Re: I love the NX20 but....

dgrogers wrote:

Cool shot.

How did you enhance the background separation?

Photoshop magic.

I do a quick magic selection of the foreground elements and cut them and paste them on a new layer. with and the original uncut image in the back ground so you end up with three layers.

Original/background only/foreground only.

Then I do a Lens Blur enhance and then further blur it with an Iris Blur to pop the bokeh a bit more. Then I give the background layer a mask and with a soft brush on about 10-25% I edge it to clear out any bleed blur effect around the edges. You can go much further if you want to take the time. but for a quick image for the web it works great.

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