I'll try that. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like >> the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too >> busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the >> background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like >> this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? >> >> >> http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS > > Steve, I think that came out fairly well, but there's a light hazy white > halo around that flower that looks out of place and rather gives away the > photoshopping. But that's not too hard to fix. > > When you cut out the flower to isolate it off the layer you're going to > blur, you probably left a transparent cutout where the flower was. When you > blur the layer, the transparent hole acts like white and mixes in with the > green shades to lighten them near the flower. > > So, after you cutout the flower, use the clone brush to duplicate some of > the green background surrounding the cutout into the cutout area; basically > create more background *behind* where the flower was. Then blur that whole > layer and superimpose the flower back over it. > > The other thing you can do is use layer effects to darken the edges of the > flower a little. > > I think it's worth another pass to improve on the effect to make it more > real. > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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