estherau opened this issue on Oct 13, 2016 ยท 9 posts
estherau posted Thu, 13 October 2016 at 9:28 AM
Hi, I made a depthmap for a render using poser, but i don't know how to use it in photoshop. I googled but cant' find the answer - most tutes seem to be on how to make a depth map and I already have that part. I made a mask and copied the depthmap into this and opened lensblur and fiddled around but it isn't working. I think im doing somethign wrong. Love esther
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
FrankT posted Thu, 13 October 2016 at 1:45 PM
you need to add the depth map as a new channel, not a layer mask. You can select that as the lens blur and it should be fine - See
http://www.workshop.mintviz.com/tutorials/depth-of-field-using-vray-zdepth/ look at the bit from "Compositing the ZDepth in Adobe Photoshop" which is pretty much how I do it with a Vue ZDepth map. You probably won't need to invert the map though
estherau posted Thu, 13 October 2016 at 5:47 PM
Hi thanks. that is a good tutorial. However it didn't work. I thought maybe the image was too big so I tried a smaller image. the depth map goes blurry in the filter window but the image is unchanged.
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
FrankT posted Fri, 14 October 2016 at 1:41 PM
Try taking off invert
Deenamic posted Fri, 14 October 2016 at 1:42 PM Forum Moderator
Hi Esther! I've never used a depth map before, but I am going to try my best to help you. From what I've read from your posts, you're trying to add a lens blur to your depth map and you can only see the blur in the preview, but not on the actual image. Have you tried the lens blur on a regular image and does it show on the actual image? If it doesn't, then I wonder if something could be wrong with the preferences for the lens blur filter. I found a thread on Adobe's website in which a person couldn't get the lens blur to show on their actual image in Photoshop Elements and I think it started working again after they deleted the lens blur preferences folder, I think that refreshed the settings for the lens blur filter. Even though the thread shows how to delete the folder in Elements, Photoshop has the same folder in the same location. Maybe this solution will help you. Here's a link to the Adobe thread I'm talking about:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1083473
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estherau posted Fri, 14 October 2016 at 2:33 PM
Thanks Dee. I am away from my computer for a few days but I will try when I get back. I will let you know how I get on. Love esther
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Deenamic posted Fri, 14 October 2016 at 8:29 PM Forum Moderator
You're welcome Esther! Ok, that sounds good. I hope what I said will work for you. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
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estherau posted Sun, 16 October 2016 at 9:56 PM
well i tried invert and that didn't fix it. I tried another picture and that worked so then I went back to my picture and i noticed that there is this orange highlight on the layer on the right which you can see in my above image. so then I clicked all the layers off in the channel and tried againa dn ow it works. thanks.
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Deenamic posted Mon, 17 October 2016 at 9:48 AM Forum Moderator
You're welcome Esther! I'm happy you got it back to working, now you can have fun creating again!
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