On 9/4/2018 4:27 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Appreciate your looking and commenting Jim, Chris, and Moose. Curiously I did
drop the brightness of the background by 15% but perhaps a bit more was
warranted. I did save the PSD file in case of suggestions.
The ferns in background were quite close and the bokeh a smidge edgy. I tried
to avoid artifacts in blurring the background with lens blur followed by just a
few pixel Gaussian with a quick touch up of any edge issues.
I tried to do it the sure fire no artifact way by eliminating the subject pre
blur. The quick go at it w/o masking PS did not let me get away with
it---selected b'fly very carefully, copied layer with selection, inverted
selection on top layer and cut background out.
I've learned never to copy a layer with part selected. I don't remember why anymore, bu recall that it caused confusion
and trouble.
Another reason to use a mask on the top layer here, rather than delete background, is that it allows painting to change
the mask. Yet another is that it saves the selection as a mask, to be easily grabbed and used again.
On layer below inverted selection again to select b'fly and cut it out, then
reinverted to select background with an eye towards two rounds of different
blurs.
You need two layers here, one for each type of blur.
PS said no way Jose and directed one to convert to smart object but blur
tools still greyed out. So much for shortcutting Maestro Moose masked method.
Masked Marauder Moose
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