I thought I’d give a tutorial on how to get a nice macro effect on your pictures. I always think close-ups look nicer if they have out of focus bits, it looks like you spent way more on your camera than you really did. This is super easy and takes just minutes in Photoshop. I’m pretty sure too that you could get the same effect using other image programs.
- Crop your picture so you’re happy with the composition.
- Duplicate that image onto another layer
- Add a blur effect to the top layer. Make it as blurry as you want the out of focus pats to be
- Now select your eraser tool, set it to the size you want the focused part to be and make sure the hardness is set to 0% (so the eraser has a nice fuzzy edge). Then just erase out the parts of the top layer that you want to be in focus revealing the sharp focus image underneath. I went in a horizontal line across part of the lower half in this image.
- Just save the image and you’re done. One product image that looks professionally taken.
