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Introducing the Focus Area command

Introducing the Focus Area command - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Focus Area command

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll introduce you to the Focus Area command, which allows you to select in-focus portions of an image independently from their out-of-focus backgrounds. So in our case, we're looking at an image with a shallow depth of field so that the model is in sharp focus, but our background is out of focus and that's going to allow us to use the Focus Area command in order to separate this model and place her into a new background, in order to produce this final effect right here. All right, so the first step is to combine these two images together. So as you can see, my Rectangular Marquee Tool selected appear at the top of the Toolbox at which point I'll just go ahead and right click anywhere inside the image window and choose duplicate layer. And I'll go ahead and change the destination document to Lonely road.jpg. And I will call this new layer, Traveler and click, Okay. After which…

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