Create Stunning Background Blurs in Photoshop! (Fast & Easy Guide!)

In this complete step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to blur backgrounds in Photoshop!
You will learn about selections, Layer Masks, Smart Objects, and the Lens Blur in Camera Raw to blur your photo's background.
This Photoshop tutorial will cover everything that you need to know about creating the shallow depth of field effect (out-of-focus background) WITHOUT an expensive lens.
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📘 INDEX - How To Blur Backgrounds in Photoshop
00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - Then Lens Blur in Camera Raw Explained
02:26 - Professional Blurring Technique
02:47 - Create a Clean Background Plate
04:27 - Remove the Background from the Subject
05:15 - Blur Background with the Lens Blur in Camera Raw Filter
06:34 - Masking and Refining Edges
08:21 - Paint In Digital Hair
09:47 - Adjusting Subject Position
10:38 - Edit Adjustments
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[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

How To Create The Hair Brush: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4eUdXScasiMjqc

[@andiratze9591]

Can you please explain, how zoom a picture only in the window and not the window as a whole? I want only zoom the picture in and out and not whole window, i hope you understand what i mean🙂

[@miguelangelruiz.]

An "All-inclusive", the best tutorials, as always. Gracias Sr. Ramirez!

[@michaelmcphee2930]

The best explanation of the Blur Tool I have seen. Certainly simplifies it. Thank you

[@kdsunil2359]

Your courses are truly amazing. Thank You so much. I love your expertise and experience

[@Bwiable]

As always clear and easy to follow. Thank you.

[@ironbutterfly13]

Excellent tutorial! Works well using a RAW file. Used it in the Beta version and it works. Thank you!

[@KrowiakRoger]

Thank you very much for your excelent tutorials. I wish more people were like you 👍🏻

[@jenda3322]

Fantastický tutoriál, a ukázka rozostření pozadí v RAW ok.

[@jamilgotcher365]

This is an excellent tutorial. Thank you so much! I've been going back and editing some portraits I photographed last year and I can't believe how much I've improved the image and also having so much fun with generative fill and generative expand.

[@PouranikBharat]

Thank you so much for your powerful editing education ❤

[@garymmarich4265]

Thank you, enjoy your videos, I have learned a lot.

[@krishchandran4125]

This is fantastic !! Years ago I learned how to do this watching your original video - using the same picture and background. Thank you, Jesus !!

[@terrymorganphotography]

As ever, an excellent tutorial video updating a technique to reflect the updates in PS. Sensibly and logically explained and demonstrated. Thank you for continuing my education and my enjoyment in using PS, especially in this time of increased use of AI which is exciting and, let's be honest, scary if not used with human intelligence too.

[@RS-Amsterdam]

Man I tried it and it is freaking good. Thanks for sharing

[@FellBobblchen]

This tutorial is as always amazingly well done and exemptional well explained! You are on of the best teachers I encountered so far! Thank you so much for more insight to how use these cool new techniques

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, @FellBobblchen!

[@athul3459]

Funtastic tutorial... Thank you

[@LIZANO262]

Hola muchas gracias .Como siempre estupendo tutorial.Saludos desde Sevilla (España)👍

[@bobmakrides]

Very nice tutorial, thanks.

[@laszloezer]

Useful, very useful! Thanks Jesus!

[@pinpinpaski1836]

Best teacher ever

[@csasevilla]

Thank you very much, Jesús. Fine explained.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome!

[@harunkhan549]

Nice! Thanks

[@Jewish5783]

very nice. thank you Sir

[@MoreCreativeGFX]

Best :) Thanks for sharing

[@Lennyfazer]

Thanxs Genius - My best

[@emirjoshuaoyama]

Thanks!.

[@starzone6859]

Thank you very much, Jesús sir

[@mostafanasehahadi2346]

thank you so much

[@SamidiTutorial-iq3xv]

Thank you Master

[@tdilley7059]

Great tutorial as always, Jesus. Thanks.

[@BruceKorb]

Really excellent! Gracias!

[@AlifDesignHouse1]

❤❤

[@boedhak123]

Thank you, sir.. since I received this kind of update, I never tried it because still concerned about how and what should adjust with these new features. Waiting for a video from PTC for a clear explanation.

[@TrevorDennis100]

I TA'd for Dave Cross at MAX in 2016, and he told us a story about Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski being blown away by the quality of Dave's hair masking. He had to fess up that he had painted in peripheral hair just as you suggested in this video. It's something I'd been doing for a good long while already so I was pleased to see Dave using the same trick. I was using some of the Aaron Blaise hair brushes a few days ago, and reminded of just how good they are. I think the set cost US$5, but that is outstanding value. Thank you for sharing your hair preset. BTW A trick I use for single strands is to use a 1 pixel fully hard brush, with size and opacity set to Fade. Keep spacing nice and low (below 5%) and use a Fade value of about 1000 for a full res image. You need to feather the start of the stroke, and sometimes reduce the layer opacity. I loved this video as always. You never fail to impress, and I always learn a new trick or two.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Thank you, @TrevorDennis100! And yeah, painting it in is probably the only way to do it. Thanks for sharing your technique!

[@BrianPSpurr]

Thanks Jesus, you are the best!

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

You're welcome, @BrianPSpurr!

[@arpadhejja734]

Thanks Jesús...

[@Kalasapurada]

we want a golden hour slider in camera raw filter and in generative fill as well! what do you think?

[@stevenpotashner5046]

Great tutorial - Thanks. However, the scene changes make me dizzy. Too many changes that happen too quickly. I suggest leaving out many of the illustrations to navigating in PS and focusing on the workflow.

[@contrarian8870]

Thanks, very useful. In PS, is there a way to get just the depth map (when you check "VIsualize"), but without the underlying real picture?

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Unfortunately, there is not.

[@photopracticum]

You can get the depth map in Photoshop by using Filters > Neural Filters > Depth Blur, and then tick Output depth map only.

[@ponymoore6140]

I have PS2024 on my computer now and all is fine excpent the blur tool. It brurs part of the foreground subject andf parts of background. Any suggestions?

[@Josh.mediaug]

hello ptc how r u doing am a great fan of you and subscriber please make me a tutorial of how to use a mixer brush tool to retourch human skin

[@libertine2273]

Hello, I want to start learning image editing with Photoshop, do I need AI tools, neural filters, etc.?

[@user-li4bp4zb9j]

can you create how to audio tract in the youtube....thanks

[@ritaophelia]

When I used generative fill and leave blank it came up with a dog and then a young boy. My portrait is a male musician?????

[@vittoriopuccio6078]

I have the sameproblem

[@navnathkalbhor3331]

Plez Photoshop 2024 download link send

[@x-manroman2595]

Prefiero un lente 1.4f

[@shaunclapham2936]

I’ve noticed it is buggy, once back in photoshop the blur disappears really odd. 🤷

[@photopracticum]

Inside the Photoshop there is also a filter Blur > Lens Blur, that does the same thing and has more options. In my opinion this should be used sparingly when you want to enhance an existing blur just a bit more.

[@suzyq2606]

Have you ever counted how many steps your tutorials have? Let Adobe know this is time consuming, so these steps can be drastically reduced.

[@user-mp4gm1bl8v]

Way too many steps. But great video

[@JoeLiningToolFilms]

If you do this, you lose your "professional" card and my friendship.

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

I do it all the time in my professional work with some of the top movie studios in the world.

[@iosuser1174]

Photoshop is too complicated

[@lukaklemenc4349]

Looks cheesy and fake