Is there a way to make selection a layer

[mrenvisionist]

I am editing a photo in photoshop CS5.
I directed the lens blur to my selection so that i have out of focus in front and back of car.
if there a way to place the selection into a layer preeminently so I can flatten image and export?

 

[ibclare]

Someone else may understand what you are asking but I don't. Would you please rephrase your question.

 

[thedirtyknapkin]

Someone else may understand what you are asking but I don't. Would you please rephrase your question.

same here

 

[Dataflow]

i had an answer until this part.

so I can flatten image and export

 

[ibclare]

i had an answer until this part.

I know huh

I am editing a photo in photoshop CS5.
I directed the lens blur to my selection so that i have out of focus in front and back of car.
if there a way to place the selection into a layer preeminently so I can flatten image and export?

We'd really like to help. We just need to understand . . .

It sounds like your selection is the foreground and background. That seems clear.

Yes there is more than one way to make that selection into a layer -- if that is what you are asking.

If you mean, can you save that selection, but also flatten the image, there are a number of ways, some work- arounds.

But you can't flatten the image and have more than one layer. Apples and oranges. You can, however, have your selection active, go to the menu to select>save selection, name it and save it.

Your other options include making copies of the psd and doing whatever you want to one while keeping a "clean" copy.

If this doesn't address your issues, please upload your image or screen shots of what you're doing, and try to get into our thick heads what it is you want to do :mrgreen:

 

[mrenvisionist]

I am adding a lens blur to a saved selection so that the blur is with in perimeters. Is there a way to make the selection itself an actual layer in the layers pallet. I don't yet know what layer I want the blur to be added to.
photoshop guru wont allow me to add a link. I guess a photo is a link.

 

[ibclare]

You don't need to add a link. Go to the box with the tree in it when you post. That is for uploading directly from your computer.

First of all, you can save a selection in the select menu, but -- to my knowledge -- you cannot save an empty selection/with no pixels as a layer. The selection doesn't exist on a layer level because it has no pixels (this is certainly not a technically correct statement but I am not sure how to explain it otherwise). Now if you are talking about creating a selection, and applying a blur which you define, then what you are looking for is an action.