We all know Photoshop is a powerful tool. In two tutorials, I'll take you through how to use Photoshop CS3's Lens Blur filter to do two things: today, we'll make images look like they were shot with a ...

A blurred image may be a mistake and disappointment when you view important pictures, but sometimes it's an intentional effect you want to add in. With Photoshop, you have complete control over the ...

A photo with a busy background can be distracting and divert attention away from your subject. If you have no control over the background during your shoot, you can still make alterations using an ...

Weblog TUAW posts a detailed step-by-step tutorial for using Photoshop's Lens Blur tool to clip objects from one photograph to another. In the example, the author moves an open book from a plain white ...

Yesterday, I showed you how to simulate a photograph taken with a tilt-shift lens by using Photoshop CS3's Lens Blur tool. Today, we'll do something a bit more practical: clipping out an object that's ...

Photoshop has features and tools that allow you to do very practical and useful things. Knowing how to blur image backgrounds without affecting the image in Photoshop can be a very practical and ...

To add extra visual interest to a photo, try using a blur filter to simulate motion. Even though your subject is stationary in the picture, the viewer’s brain will experience the movement, which adds ...

Both Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom have received some updates this week, including solid upgrades to Content-Aware workflow, the Lens Blur tool, and performance enhancements thanks to transforms ...

The most difficult objects to mask are those with soft, undefined edges. This is a common issue in photos snapped using a wide aperture (or too close to the object), resulting in an increasingly soft ...

Both Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom have received some updates this week, including solid upgrades to Content-Aware workflow, the Lens Blur tool, and performance enhancements thanks to transforms ...