Creating Depth of Field using V-Ray ZDepth + Photoshop Pt2

 

Hi..this is the 'Part 2' of this tutorial, if you've missed the 'Part 1',  just click  ==>>here.

Welcome to part 2.. lets continue to step 7.

7. Open the 2nd JPG (the Zdepth JPG) in Photoshop.

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8. Go to select menu, and click all. You can press 'Ctrl+A' to use a keyboard shortcut.

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9. After selecting the full image (Ctrl+A), go to ‘Edit’ menu, and click ‘Copy’. You can press ‘Ctrl+C’ to use a keyboard shortcut.

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10. Open the first JPG , then go to 'Channel' tab. On the ‘Channel’ tab, click the ‘Create new channel’  button.

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11. As you can see in Fig.05, the new channel is  automatically named as ‘Alpha 1’.

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 12. Now ‘Paste’ or press 'Ctrl V' the 'Zdepth' image that has been copied above in Step 9 to 'Alpha 1' channel.

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13. Turn off the Alpha 1 channel and select the RGB, Red, Green and Blue Channel, then go to ‘Filter’ tab. 'Filter' tab is on ‘Photoshop’ main menu bar.

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 14. On the ‘Filter’ menu, choose ‘Blur’ and select the sub menu ‘Lens Blur’.

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 15. Changes the ‘Lens Blur’ parameters. Do some experiment in modifying the parameters to get the best result you want. Click ‘OK’ and it’s done.

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 16. Well done, see you again next tutorial.