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Create Depth of Field in Photoshop
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Published
05/20/2006
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Photo Editing
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Open your desired image in Photoshop (CS or CS2) , Then go to your layer palette and click
channels (in the top)

At the bottom of this channel palette there is an icon named
“create new channel” it is a square icon with the shape of a folded sheet , Click it

The Alpha 1 layer will be added and your image will
turn into black cause the RRB channel is not selected anymore , So
select visualize the RGB
>> Step 2(Create a gradient ) Now we have our image under this red layer , the red means the area of the new “ alpha 1 layer “ and it also
means the area the will not be affected by the blur lens effect . So next we need to add a gradient to erase part of the alpha channel and to get our blur area

So activate your
gradient tool in the
tool panel and your make a gradient

The gradient
start point has be over
20 % inside your focused desired object , and the
end pont is
edge of your pic.

it should look like this
>> Step 3(Add Lens Blur Filter to the Background Layer )A) First you have to
turn off he visibility of the
“alpha 1 layer “ and
select the RGB channel , then go to your layers palette , and
select the Background Layer
B)Next open the
Lens Blur Filter panel
( Filter / Blur / Lens Bur ) 
In this panel
selct "alpha 1" in the
source box ,
this is the name of the layer we have just created , if you named the layer differently it will appear as you named it 
Now play with the radius scale to add the desired lens blur to your image .
-If you want to invert the blur click the invert box Note :
if you see a black and white gradient instead of your image , it is because you , didn’t select the background layer or because you didn’t deselect the channel layer we created . In case this happened , click cancel and repeat step 3 
we've finished click okay and that was all !!!