Tuesday, December 13, 2016

How to Apply Iris Blur

How to Apply Iris Blur


Iris Blur tool allows you to add blur to an image that fakes a shallow depth of field

Open your image in Photoshop
In this tutorial am going to add blur to the whole picture except the flower














Duplicate background Layer

Ctrl+J or go to  Layer -New- Layer via Copy










Now, you will be having two layers, background layer and Layer 1 which is the copy of background layer

Go to Filter > Blur > Iris Blur












Click on your image and a cycle will appear, everything outside the cycle will be blurred
Play with dots to reposition where you dont want to be blurred
When you are satsified now your right hand side in Blur tool slider you can set amount of blur you want




















When you are satisfied simply click Ok and press enter





Below is final image





Available link for download