This image revealed something interesting about my phone’s camera. It was shot in “Portrait” mode, blurring what the lens thinks is the background. After saving this photo SOOC with my name, I noticed areas of the distant background that were in sharp focus. Clearly, the lens/Camera app has an algorithm that does not use distance as its criterion. So I had to blur three areas that were in sharper focus.
[ON1 Photo Raw to the rescue (Line Mask tool) for the blurring, but it also completely obliterated the meta data, notably the Date/Time taken.]
Then, as I was writing up this post, I noticed two more objects that were in sharp focus that are in the distant background. Re-edit! To emphasize what was changed, I may have to post the original as a filler somewhere.
After two or three or four or … re-edits, it looks like I still missed a wee bit of passenger entry edge. I am not at all happy with this edit. I completely eliminated something in the background because I wasn’t satisfied with the best I could do to blur it. Oh, well. I’ve already spent an inordinate amount of time trying to “fix” the image from the phone camera. This will have to do.
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Great job! LOL! Sorry about those re-edits. I like to use the mask tool and when I have everything selected that I don't want blurred, I invert the mask for what I do want blurred. =)
@marlboromaam That seems like a lot of work when the majority of the real estate will be sharp and just a portion will be blurred, unless you're using tools that automatically grab large chunks of the image at one. In any case, it's definitely cool watching the sharp-to-blur and blur-to-sharp transition when you tap "Invert"!
