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Dreamy effect
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You're going to need multiple layers for this.
Change your foreground color to white. On a new layer, make a shape of some kind ("U" keyboard shortcut"). It can be a square, circle, whatever. It might be best to choose "fill pixels", which is the right-most of the three choices in the menu bar at the top of your screen. Apply a heavy Gaussian blur to the new shape. Now you can make copies of that layer, and drag/scale them, and change their opacities until you get the effect you want. That will give you the background ghosting.
If you want to add an effect like the slightly-blurred leaves and grass in the foreground, create those in their own layers, then apply lesser and differing blurs to them. You may want to use Motion blurs instead of Gaussian blurs.
Do you know how to make the leaves and grass shapes?
Change your foreground color to white. On a new layer, make a shape of some kind ("U" keyboard shortcut"). It can be a square, circle, whatever. It might be best to choose "fill pixels", which is the right-most of the three choices in the menu bar at the top of your screen. Apply a heavy Gaussian blur to the new shape. Now you can make copies of that layer, and drag/scale them, and change their opacities until you get the effect you want. That will give you the background ghosting.
If you want to add an effect like the slightly-blurred leaves and grass in the foreground, create those in their own layers, then apply lesser and differing blurs to them. You may want to use Motion blurs instead of Gaussian blurs.
Do you know how to make the leaves and grass shapes?
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Hoogle
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A lot of this is actually done by using the camera and having a back lit subject it is done by exposing for your subject and having a bright light in the background, Usually semi obstructed by the subject you are photographing, as you take the photo the bright light will reflect of your lens causing a flair, Then maybe had some selective contrast reduction done in post production and some warmth added to the white balance or color correction.
An example using my Father....
That said there are Actions online that will mimic this effect to an extent or you can get lens flair brushes etc but just google photoshop summer effect or lens flair effects.
As usual with images from my camera and the jpeg conversion the colors are bleached out when posting on this forum. so you may have to click it to get the golden richness effect.
An example using my Father....
That said there are Actions online that will mimic this effect to an extent or you can get lens flair brushes etc but just google photoshop summer effect or lens flair effects.
As usual with images from my camera and the jpeg conversion the colors are bleached out when posting on this forum. so you may have to click it to get the golden richness effect.
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