How to Make Blur Background with Photoshop

Blur Background Making with Photoshop

Many have question that, how to make a beautiful, soft, blurred background for any image. There is a big misunderstanding among new photographers that you need to go out and buy an luxurious lens with a really big aperture to be able to attain such a appear. 

While it is true that a larger aperture will present you a shallower depth of field, there are also two other factors involved that many people haven’t heard before or have forgotten.  In this tutorial i am going to give you easy some steps to creating the lovely blurred background 

Today we are going to learn about making blur background with Photoshop. 

Here is the final output for your better understanding-

Here we start our tutorial. You can easily make blurry background by following this steps-

Step 1: Open model image and crop with quick selection tool

Step 2: Go to refine edge

Step 3: A box will appear where need to select radius > 16, smooth > 1

Step 4: Mask the outline with refine edge masking

Step 5: After masking output to  > new layer with layer mask

Step 6: open another background layer above the object new layer

Step 7: Put down the background layer just under the object new layer

Step 8: Now mask the hair area with layer masking brush

Step 9: Go to background layer and choose filter > blur > field blur

Step 10: Adjust field blur 30px, light bokeh- 72% , bokeh color- 32% , & flip vertical the object or model

Step 11: Choose object layer > adjustment layer with gradient [ black and white  , style- radial , reverse scale 363 angle- 0]

Step 12: Group all the layer together and copy  group layer

Step 13: now merge group layer copy and go to image > adjustment > edit just as image given below

Step 14: Same way go adjustment > level increase / decrease for the better level and balance of color

Step 15: If you think you are satisfied with the image save image 

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