Select and Mask + Tilt-Shift

[McFlydoubleG]

Hi,

I wanted to add shallow depth of field and did the following:

Open pic > option + cmd + R (Select and Mask) > W (Quick Selection Tool) > B (Brush Tool, to finish it off) > Output to: New Layer with Layer Mask (did not check Decontaminate Colors) > Add Mask To Selection > shift + cmd + I > select original pic next to mask > Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift > crank blur to 100 px > no visible result.

Oddly enough I can see the blur effect in the Layer thumbnail but not in the main picture.

What am I doing wrong?

[CJWilkes]

Can you screen print what you have done so we can take a look?

[McFlydoubleG]

Not at the moment. It's a work in progress and I don't have workable stock photos (where depth of field can be implemented) at hand. If you walk through the steps I've laid out with your own example/picture you should be able to encounter a mistake, I guess.

Otherwise it could be a hardware/software problem. Let's hope not.

[davescm]

Your steps:

Open pic > option + cmd + R (Select and Mask) > W (Quick Selection Tool) > B (Brush Tool, to finish it off) > Output to: New Layer with Layer Mask (did not check Decontaminate Colors) > Add Mask To Selection > shift + cmd + I > select original pic next to mask > Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift > crank blur to 100 px > no visible result.

If by "next to mask" you mean on the same layer as the mask then you are blurring the part image that is masked. That step in bold should be :

Select original layer in layer panel and turn on visibility

or

add a step at the end to turn off the layer mask

Dave

[McFlydoubleG]

Thanks a lot. Works perfectly!