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    Request

    It looks pretty close but if you got the colour of the boars head a little less bright it would be a very good match. The body is more grey-cream colour compared to the white head. Maybe a small tweak on the brightness/contrast would help.
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    best way to blur background?

    What worked best for me was to cut out a copy of the sky, paste this as new layer, then blur this with radial zoom. I then put a copy of the building back over the top of this and smudged the blurred sky edges back underneath the building where the blur had picked up some non-sky traces. Thanks...
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    best way to blur background?

    Thanks Hoog, this shot is actually in jpg but I am aware that raw format enables a lot more detail from clouds, I have no problem in doing the HDR sky stuff. So if I understand correctly: 1) Select the sky 2) copy it on top as a new layer 3) Blur the new sky layer 4) soften the edges back by...
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    best way to blur background?

    ok heres a smaller version to show you what the problem is. Sky was marquees off then radial blur/zoom added.
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    best way to blur background?

    The radial and motion blur smears the pixels from the edge of the house into the sky so you end up with a fuzzy smudgy halo surrounding it. That's what I'm trying to avoid.
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    best way to blur background?

    Hi - hope you can help with this one. I'm using CS5 to edit DSLR photos, I want to do a big radial zoom blur on the stormy clouds in the background without touching the building in front of it. I tried a mask and a cut'n'paste but the blur brings in unwanted stuff at the edges. What's the best...
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