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Photoshop F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 26 6:58 am)
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Not quite sure what effect you want to achieve, a common method of faking gradual loss of focus with distance is to make a copy of the layer you want to give the illusion of depth to, Gaussian Blur it to the maximum soft focus you want, apply a layer mask to the blurred layer and draw a black/white gradient into the mask to reveal only as much of the blurred layer as you need. Hope that made sense.
If you are trying to make this on a picture made in a 3D Program, you could see if your program supports saving the z-buffer. z-buffer has the depth information of the image and can be used as a mask when using gaussian blur as advised by lundqvist on the previous reply. If you are editing a photograph you have to make the mask by hand as photos don't have depth information.
You can also select certain areas of the z-buffer/distance masks with Photoshop's "color range". This way you can modify the "camera's" place of focus. For example if you do color range with 50% black (grey) and then invert the selection you can blur only the foreground and the background. The middle area of the image is then maintained in focus.
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Is there such an effect in photoshop I cant's seem to find it. Or is it under an other name?