Photoshop for Video: Adding Depth of Field

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Richard Harrington
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Washington District of Columbia USA

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In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

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Re: Adding Depth of Field
by Richard Harrington

Yes. AE has similar Lens blur. You need to use RotoBrush to cut out subjects. Then Lens blur on bg

It is VERY time intensive though

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

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Re: Adding Depth of Field
by samson alli

Mr. Harrington,

I'm a filmmaking student in Houston, In fact we are using one of your books "photoshop for video." I have a question, Is is possible to shoot with ex-1 without a lens adapter and add shallow focus in post with photoshop?

Samson Alli.

SA

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interesting. but this is only shows
by Andreas Wappel

interesting. but this is only shows the use on an still image, what about using it on video? i mean, it says photoshop for video! for example when a person should come down the stairs, this doesn't work.

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very interesting, but what would you
by Andreas Wappel

very interesting, but what would you do, if a person was coming down the stairs?which is rather common in movies:-) this only works for a static image not a video!

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D O F
by Larry Vaughn

My thoughts exactly.

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Adding Depth of Field
by Todd Smaretsky

Good technique. But you are not adding depth of field; you are decreasing it.

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