Photo editing question

Question

I wanted to know if there is a program that lets you put whatever object you want in focus, and then the rest of the picture blurred. I know that a camera can do it to a point, but I mean, is there software? Or an internet program?

Answer 1

Photoshop or Blender.

Answer 2

Yes, Try google pixela,

Answer 3

Most major software programs such as Adobe's Photoshop or Corel's Paint Shop Pro will allow you to do this.

There is something called "Plug Ins" for these software packages, they are a program within a program, and will allow you to add effects to a picture. Some are free, most of the ones that make the best effects cost money and often are quite expensive.

All photo editing software comes with some cheapie, basic built-in effects, such as sharpen, blur, sketch, etc.

Photo editing software also comes with a tool called a "selection tool" that allows you to select a specific area of a picture, such as a face or a whole person or building, then your can apply an effect to the area inside or outside of this selection.

Photoshop costs around $700, Paint Shop Pro is around $100. There is also a free program called Gimp:

http://www.gimp.org/

which provides most of the features of professional software and might do what you need.

Answer 4

www.picnik.com

Answer 5

you gotta try photoshop;; its the best ^.^ even though its very expensive, but its still worth buying and installing it to your computer..

Answer 6

Any decent photo editing program can do it but the camera can do it much better. You have got to be pretty good with Photoshop to be able to do it and not have everybody know you did it on Photoshop.

Answer 7

Photoshop! If you get it look up a tutorial on how to do it because it's too hard to explain on here.

Answer 8

I use Corel Photo Paint X3, and it allows you to outline the "focused" object by creating a mask, then reverse the mask so that everything except that object is selected.  Once that is done, you just use one of the tools under "adjust" to blur the rest of the image.

I'm sure that Photoshop or any other photo manipulation program would allow you to do the same thing.

Answer 9

Photoshop does that, you select the object to keep it in focus and inverse the selection and blur the background with a filter. I'm sure other programs like photoshop does this but most of the time the cheaper programs can't do this stuff other than basic things like cropping and brightness.  

Answer 10

photoshop:

-duplicate the background layer.

-apply the gaussian blur filter to the dup layer.

-apply a mask to that layer.

-on the mask apply a radial gradient in the size and position of the object you want in focus.

-You're done. The mask of the blurred layer lets the bottom crisp layer showing through.

**For more accuracy, use a brush tool instead of the radial blur on the mask layer.