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Published: 2004-07-14 06:42:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 8892; Favourites: 50; Downloads: 1888
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... I've had some questions asked by a few friends on how to pull focus to a specific subject in a flat digital image... this effect, which I learned in a Photoshop seminar, does exactly that with just the right amount of subtlety... you see it used in lots of glamour advertisements or product solicitations where a depth-of-field blur is used to heighten the impact of an object, so that it feels like it's in the foreground even though in reality it isn't...... this tutorial also demonstrates the power of using Channels, which many people stray away from because they don't understand them...
*thanks to `snowmask for the use of her photo...
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Comments: 33
... thanks so much for dusting off this tutorial I wrote in 2004, I hope it works well for you...
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Wonderful tutorial I've been wondering how to do that and I found other ways but yours is easier!
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... thank you, I hope you can put it to good use... knowledge is power!!
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I really like your tutorials! Easy to follow for me!!!
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What a cool little tutorial! I'm gonna go try it out right now!
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Yah, that save selection tool has allowed my creative artisticness (it can be a word if I say so) to grow....without it some of my recent works would not have been possible. I never knew how or what channels would do...now I know. Thanks for this informative tutorial....I see other possiblities on how to use this newfound information
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easy tutorial for everyone...
channel rock my world! nicely done!
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thank you for this awesome tutorial...it's refreshing to learn things every day 
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BOO! awesome job and great choice of model.. the lovely ever snowmask
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I know this technique, but it's nicely done tutorial indeed. Good idea to make it with `snowmask 's photo
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... *clonk*
... glad to hear I actually made sense for once... channels rule mah world...
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thank you for creating such a great tutorial! you made it very easy to understand. i used this tutorial to create my latest submition and i put you in my description so you can get credit for it and so others can learn too. great job! very helpful!
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Very well written tutorial. I have to admit I always wondered how to do this without distorting the main subject.
Thanks so much sharing, this will come in handy.
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... it's so ridiculously easy... channels rock my world!!!
... you can probably tell I'm easily amused...
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*cough*
... excuses excuses...
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wonderful tutorial and of course what a lovely model to work with...
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... it never hurts to work with a subject that's "easy on the eyes..."
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you know i think you are gorgeous!
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Thanks.
Oh there you go off AIM
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i reset it... sorry bout that
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nono... why sorrie ;-;
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