Photo Manipulation: MAGIC FOCUS CIRCLE [Photoshop Composite Tutorial]
good morning Dunna here today we're gonna talk about how I did that effect on my
thumbnail from a couple of weeks ago where I held up the filter it was clear
in the middle and blurry everywhere else you guys asked me a lot about how to do
that and for a tutorial on it so we're gonna go start to finish on that
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let's go take some photos
hey buddy, want to teach a tutorial with me so like I said before we are going to be
recreating that photo that I took out on my balcony of the downtown skyline
through a filter and make it so that everything is blurred out except for the
filter itself and in the center that's where the picture will be clear in order
to do that this is everything that we're going to need we need a tripod we need a
camera to put on the tripod to take the photo with we're going to need a filter
in this case we're not actually using it as a tool we're just using it as a prop
more than anything and then I have my laptop here to signify that we're going
to need some kind of editing software because we're gonna be taking multiple
photos and putting them together of course we need coffee and if you have a
companion with you that makes it even better so let's head out onto the
balcony and we're gonna try and take this photo well that's convenient that
my tripod and camera are already set up so once we get to this point the
important thing here is going to be to frame up whatever shot it is that you
want to get in the end so I'm looking at the edmonton downtown skyline from my
balcony and i basically just want to frame up all the nice tall buildings
right in the center of my shot i'm currently shooting on a 30 millimeter on
my a 6500 so you've got about a 45 millimeter full-frame equivalent and the
reason that i'm shooting with a 30 instead of a longer lens is because i
still need to be able to hold out my hand and get it in the shot the first
shot that we're gonna get is actually the one with my hand out holding the
filter so I'm gonna grab the filter and honestly it doesn't really matter which
filter you use and I'm just gonna hold it in front of the frame now for this
shot I'm at f 2.8 ISO100 1/2500 of a second because it's super bright
out here what I want to do is manually focus on
my hand and on the filter so that everything in the background becomes
blurry
so right about there looks good now in this case I'm gonna change my shutter
speed a little bit so that I can get a little bit more exposure on my hand this
is something that I dealt with the last time I took it there's no light coming
from my balcony so the back of my hand looks a little bit dark so I'm gonna
take a couple of shots just in case I don't want to overexpose but I also want
to be able to pull the shadows up and get the detail back in my hand so at
this point I've taken a couple of photos with the filter in the frame focusing on
my hand and the filter now what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the filter
and my hand out of the frame and we're just gonna take a shot of the background
I've moved my aperture up to f/4 you don't have to do this but I just like to
get a little bit more of the background and focus even though we're only gonna
be using the center of it I'm still at ISO 100 but I'm going to dial in my
shutter speed to get the proper exposure for it then I'm gonna focus on the
buildings of downtown
and I'm gonna snag a couple of shots again I'm gonna do a couple that I think
are a little bit underexposed and a couple overexposed just so that I have
some options to play with after and that's it for taking the photos let's
get all these into the computer and I'll show you what to do with them now I'm
gonna assume that you know how to get the photos from your camera into your
computer so I'm gonna skip that whole section and we're gonna hop straight
into Lightroom so as you can see in Lightroom I have a handful of pictures
of my hand holding the filter some different exposure options and then I
have a couple of pictures of the skyline itself now if you want to skip the whole
Lightroom step you can actually just do this straight in Camera Raw in Photoshop
which is where we're gonna be going later I like to do it in Lightroom
because it gives me the option to see everything laid out and choose the
photos kind of ahead of time in a nice organized way it doesn't really matter
either way you're gonna end up with the same thing it just is kind of up to what
your workflow is I think I like this last photo best I'm gonna flag it and
then for the downtown skyline I like this third one best I'm going to
view only my flagged ones that I can see just these two so now that we've chosen
both photos you can already probably see where I'm kind of going with this I'm
gonna throw a grade on both of these and try and keep them consistent you don't
want to have like a wildly different white balance or anything like that you
want to make it look like it is one picture basically to speed things up I'm
just gonna throw one of my presets on both of these see how that looks and
then adjust from there
once I've got my edit done on the first photo I'm actually going to hold shift
and click the second photo as well that'll highlight both of them and then
I'm gonna click sync and I'm basically gonna sync everything now what it did is
it copied over all of the settings from that first photo onto the second one so
we can see before and after it's looking pretty cool I feel like maybe that blue
is just a little intense I'm gonna go into my HSL and dial back the blue a
little bit and the Aqua now will be able to do more tweaking to it afterwards but
I think that looks pretty good for now now what we're gonna do again holding
shift we're gonna highlight both of them we're gonna right click and we're gonna
choose edit in open as layers in Photoshop what this is gonna do is it's
gonna convert it so that it can open in Photoshop and then it's gonna put them
as layers rather than opening in their own separate files
they're already gonna be layered on top of each other now it's put the photo of
me holding the filter on top which is actually what we want in this case if
your photo of your hand isn't on the top all you have to do is drag that layer on
the right hand side here the nice thing about doing this with filters is that
they're this perfect circle and there's a nice hard contrasty line so what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna grab the quick selection tool and making sure that I'm
selected on the filter layer I'm gonna start selecting and basically right away
it snapped a nice circle on the inside of that filter zooming in a little bit
we can see that it can be cleaned up just a little bit if you want to add to the
s election you can just keep clicking and it'll keep adding or if you want to take
away from the selection you can hold option or Alt on a PC and you can click
and it'll try to you know intelligently select pieces in my experience with this
you don't need to be too crazy with it it'll still work just fine that looks
pretty good now something that I like to do is go up to the Select menu go down
to modify choose feather and feather by about three pixels and
hit okay then what we want to do is hold an option or alt we're gonna click on
the layer mask icon and basically what that did is it added a layer mask for
everything except what was in the center of that selection so now we can see
through that if I was to take away that bottom layer it's just empty space in
there so we could literally put anything in there now you can adjust this however
you want to adjust it in Photoshop or if you hit command S or ctrl s on a PC
it'll actually save a copy of that back into Lightroom where you can apply more
grading in Lightroom if I hop back to Lightroom I've got my just my filter
photo I've got my background photo and then I've got another one that is our
edited photo so if I wanted to increase saturation or contrast or anything like
that now I can do that in Lightroom which is how I'm very comfortable with
it and there you have it we have pretty much a copy of the photo that I took for
my thumbnail the other week I did use the other hand this time not sure why as
always I want to hear what you guys think do you have a different way that
you like to do this same style of photo leave a comment below and on your way
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Photo Manipulation: MAGIC FOCUS CIRCLE [Photoshop Composite Tutorial]