Bokeh (bokeh means "blur" in Japanese) is a stylish, fashionable and extremely popular effect among modern photographers. Many people want to learn how to correctly do bokeh in Photoshop in order to make their photos look like the famous shots of fashion photographers. In a nutshell, bokeh can be defined as artistic and deliberately defined blur and blurring of certain areas in a photo that turn out to be out of focus.
Correctly made bokeh favorably distinguishes the main character of the photo, beautifully blurring the background around him.
Necessary
Adobe photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
To add this unusual effect to your photo, create a new file of large enough resolution in Photoshop. You can try the effect right away on a photo, but for the first time it is recommended that you draw several objects yourself and apply a defocus filter to them.
Step 2
Fill the created area with dark gray using the fill tool. Then, using the ellipse tool, draw a circle and fill it with black.
Go to the Blending Options, and reduce the opacity of your circle by 50%. Then select a Stroke with a thickness of 10 pixels. The stroke should be inner and black.
Step 3
After that go to the Edit menu and click Define Brush to turn the drawn circle into a full-fledged brush, with which you can repeatedly copy these circles and paint with them, choosing a different size. Select the created brush from the brushes menu, specify the size you want to see. Set the Spacing parameter to 100%.
Step 4
Create a new layer. Fill this layer with a semi-transparent gradient with any color combination you like. Set the Gradient Blending Mode to Overlay, Style Linear.
Step 5
Create a new layer, take a new brush and paint large circles with white color, you can choose the maximum brush size for them. After that open the Gaussian Blur filter settings and set the blur to 20 pixels. Create a new layer, draw a few smaller circles on it and also put a Gaussian Blur filter on them with a lower blur (4 pixels). Do the same with the third layer - the circles on it should be very small, and the blur should not exceed 1 pixel.
