Advanced Particle Effects

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This tutorial will show you how to create particle effects in Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you experiment and keep your creativity wide open.

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Creative Focus with Lens Blur

Description: This tutorial will give you some beautiful insight on creative composition. Originally published at photoshopessentials.com. Written By Steve Patterson, who says:

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going learn how to add creative focus to an image using Photoshop's Lens Blur filter, which has been available in Photoshop since Photoshop CS (which means you'll need Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3 for this tutorial). When most people think of adding a blurring effect to an image in Photoshop, they immediately think of the Gaussian Blur filter, which has been around in Photoshop since the days of the dinosaurs (they used Photoshop BC back then). While Gaussian Blur is still a great filter with plenty of uses, it doesn't offer us much in terms of control over the blurring effect and usually needs to be paired up with a layer mask for it to be of any real use. Photoshop's Lens Blur filter, on the other hand, offers an incredible amount of control over the effect (more than you'll most likely ever need), and when used with an easy-to-create Depth Map, as we'll see in this tutorial, we can specify exactly how much blurring to apply to different areas of the image, giving us complete creative control over which areas are in focus and which are not.

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