Photoshop Tip #3

Adding a vinegrette to a photograph will give you some depth of field, plus can take the attention away from an anoying background thus forcing the viewer to look at what you want them to see.

A few easy steps to do this one really.

1. Create an elipse using the marquee tool around the area you wish to leave sharp.
2. Goto the Select menu and choose feather. Add a value of around 10 but you can play around with this.
3. Goto the Select menu again choose Inverse this will now select the surrounding area.
4. Choose Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian choose a value of around 10 but again this is something that you can play with in order to create the perfect image.

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