A Beginner’s Guide to Blurring Backgrounds in Adobe Lightroom It’s no secret that Photoshop reigns supreme in the world of photo editing. It’s a massive program with incredible capabilities, from custom filters to animation. But most of the time, even the pros just want to apply simple edits to their photos. This is where Lightroom really shines. It’s a simple program that’s easier to learn, and it has all the tools you’re likely to need—plus an awesome, efficient management system for storing and organizing your images. Lightroom lets you import, manage, edit, rename, and even watermark your photos in a completely non-destructive way—unlike Photoshop—and even allows you to import your photos RAW for Photographers who would prefer to avoid JPEG compression. So now that we’ve told you all the reasons you should be using Lightroom, let’s get to why you’re really here. One of the most common photo editing tricks used to bring attention to your foreground subject is to blur the background. Softening these “out-of-focus” areas tells your viewer where to look and what’s important in the scene, without losing the visual interest or context provided by the background. While a lot of photographers will simply start scrubbing out the detail with the Photoshop “blur” tool, Lightroom actually has a tool for exactly this purpose, allowing you to add depth without destroying your background pixels. Not a photographer yourself? If you’re a designer working with client images or stock photos, blurring in Lightroom can help you quickly and easily focus the image to emphasize your advertising or message. Regardless of what images you’re working with, this simple trick couldn’t be faster—it only takes about two minutes. Step One Import Your Image To import your image, open up Lightroom and click “Import” on the bottom left. From here, the easiest way to upload the image is to simply drag and drop the file into the center of the screen. Click “Import”—it’s on the bottom right this time, just to be tricky. Now that you’ve imported the image you want to edit, you are probably in the “Library” module. Go ahead and toggle over to the Develop Module along the top of the screen—if you don’t see it, hover your cursor along the top edge of the Lightroom screen and it should pop up. This is the experimental section of Lightroom, and it’s where you’re going to make all your edits—don’t worry, thanks to Lightroom’s non-destructive editing format, you won’t accidentally harm the original, so feel free to play around with the effects! Join Our Creative Community Access the best video tips, design hacks, and deals straight to your inbox. Step Two Start Painting The first thing you’re going to need to do is click on the “Adjustment Brush,” as you can see below. Once you do, you should see a ton of custom effect settings appear beneath the brush, as well as the word “New.” What we’re basically going to do is create a layer mask, allowing us to apply the changes only within the mask and leave the unselected areas as they are. Go ahead and click “New” to create your mask, and then click “show selected mask overlay” along the bottom panel in order to view which areas you have covered with your mask. While we’re getting set up, this seems like a good idea to go over your brushes. If you scroll along the custom effect settings, you should see a whole section devoted to brushes. You’re probably fairly familiar with how these brushes work, but as a quick refresher Size Defines how large or small the brush will be. Feather Defines the hardness or softness of the brush whether it will fade along the edges or create a hard edge. Flow Defines the intensity of the stroke. Go ahead and set your brushes up the way you would like them. We kept our brush on the smaller side, with 100% flow and feathering. And we’re ready to paint! Using your brush, color in the entire area you want to blur our. Because you clicked “show selected mask overlay,” the area you paint will turn a sheer red. Pro Tip If you accidentally cover an object or part of an object that you wanted to keep sharp, click on “erase” to brush off the unwanted areas. Step Three Apply the Blur effect Once you’re done painting, uncheck “show selected mask overlay” and you will be able to see the changes on the image as you adjust the parameters in the right panel. The two areas we will be adjusting are sharpness and clarity. For this image, we want to get the most blur we can for the background, so we set both values at -100. Go ahead and play with the values to get the look you’re going for. As you can see, the background is a now a fair bit blurred, and the figure in the foreground stands out more than she did in the original. If you feel this is not enough blur, or you want to apply another layer only to certain areas for example, areas further in the background, simply repeat the process. Click on “New” to start a new adjustment and repeat steps 2-3. We went ahead and repeated the process to create our final image. Step Four Save Your Work As we’ve said, Lightroom uses non-destructive editing. To save and export your photos, click “Done,” then return to the “Library” module next to “Develop” in the top nav bar. Once here, select your photo and click “Export.” A dialogue box will pop up allowing you to save and rename your image to a folder of your choice, among a myriad of other editing and resizing options. For more on exporting files in Lightroom, see our recent post on resizing images in Lightroom. And there you have it! The results with this tool are subtle but can be repeated as many times as you need, and every edit will be saved along the way, leaving your original image untouched—no more panicking about destroying pixels or compulsively hitting CTRL+S. When you don’t have time to shoot and edit your own image, save time and money with royalty-free stock graphics. After all, even the fastest editing tricks aren’t quite as quick as clicking “Download.” What will you create? Tags Adobe Lightroom, images, Caroline Mercurio Marketing Creative Specialist An avid storyteller with a background in film, theater, and fine art, Caroline covers the latest trends in film and design while managing our social media platforms. In her free time, she can be found awkwardly practicing ballroom dancing in public places or “studying” to become a level 1 sommelier. Maybe.

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How to Blur Background in Lightroom Have you ever have those times when you wish you’d shot something with a wider aperture, so your image would have that dreamy background blur behind your subject? Or maybe like me, you just simply forgot to adjust your aperture? Don’t worry, I won’t tell if you won’t. Getting this right in camera is preferable, but did you know you can fake a background blur in Lightroom pretty easily? With the skillful use of brushes and filters, you can hardly tell the difference. I’m going to walk you through 3 different and easy ways to blur the background in Lightroom. Regardless of which option you choose, the first 2 steps are identical. Note You can also Blur a Background in Photoshop. If you want to learn how to do this in Photoshop click here. Let's get started Step 1. Choose a Blur Method You can blur a background in Lightroom using any one or more of these 3 tools Brushes Radial Gradient Linear Gradient Depending on the option you choose, first click on the Masks icon in the toolbar just below the histogram in Lightroom. Next, choose which option you want to use to apply blur to the image. Step 2. Adjust Sharpness, Clarity & Exposure Next you will need to set the blur effect that you want to be applied to your image using the Lightroom brush, radial gradient or linear gradient tool options. These options are very similar for each tool. I usually begin by selecting the Sharpness’ menu item. From there, simply drag the sharpness slider all the way back to -100. TIP If you’re not a fan of sliders, you can also click the number to the right of the slider and simply type in the value you would like to use. In addition to bringing the sharpness all the way down, I also bring the clarity slider all the way down. I like to see the most dramatic effect first and then move the sliders back up from there, as I go. Lastly, I bring down the exposure just a bit as well. Reducing sharpness and clarity tends to create unexpected brightness because you are removing some contrast. Make sure all the other sliders are set to zero. Tip You can double click on the slider name to reset sliders to zero. Now that we’ve got the first 2 steps out of the way, let's go into more detail about how to use each individual adjustment tool. Blur Method 1 Brush The Lightroom Brush is an incredibly versatile and incredibly powerful tool. Of the three methods we’ll discuss today, brushes offer the most directed control. You can literally paint on the blur wherever you want it and apply additional brush layers to specified parts of the image! Here's my starting image Step 3. Adjust Feather & Flow Use the feather and flow sliders to adjust how strong you want the effect to be. Step 4. Brush on the Blur Using the brush tool, "paint" the blur effect on your image wherever you like. TIP Hit the O’ key to see a colored overlay of where the effect is being applied. My overlay is set to red but you may have set yours to be a different color. Either way, the more opaque the color, the stronger the effect will be. TIP 2 I like to set my flow to around 40 or so and simply paint on additional layers for additional blur if needed. Optional Step 5. Remove Blur If you accidentally blur an area of your image that you wanted to remain sharp, you can select the Subtract’ button and remove it from those areas. This is much easier to do when utilizing the colored overlay. Final Image with Blur Added Blur Method 2 Radial Gradient What radial gradients lack in control, they make up for in time-saving ability. More often than not, radial gradients will be your quickest option. Unlike brushes, radial gradients are limited in that they can only be applied in some variation of a round or oval shape. You can access the radial gradient tool by clicking on the Masks icon circle with a dotted outline. Radial gradients are a great option if you want to apply blur all-around your subject. Something I do really appreciate about radial filters is that they apply the blur evenly. Here's my starting image Step 3. Adjust Feather Adjust the feathering to your taste. I like to keep mine around 50 so that the transition from sharp to blurred is smooth. Step 4. Invert Mask If Desired Click the Invert Mask’ check box at the top of the Radial Gradient panel. if you would like to apply your edits outside the circle/oval. Leave this box unchecked if you want to apply your edits inside the circle/oval. Step 5. Place & Size the Radial Gradient Select a spot within the frame, then click and drag until your filter is the size and shape you desire. Step 6. Adjust Clarity Pull the clarity slider up if needed -100 is a pretty drastic effect that can be mitigated when using brushes because you can control the opacity of the brush. With the radial filter, you won’t have the same amount of control so you will need to adjust the clarity slider directly to lessen the effect. Optional Step 7. Remove Blur Again, if you accidentally blur an area that you would like to remain sharp, you can click on the the Subtract’ button on the mask you have created and remove the blur from those areas using a brush or any of the masking tools. This is much easier to SEE if you’re utilizing the colored overlay. Final Image with Blur Added Blur Method 3 Linear Gradient Linear gradients have long since been my FAVORITE way to create background blur because I feel like I get the best of both worlds. With linear gradients, I can utilize more control than I can with radial filters AND I also get a more even application than I can with brushes! Here's my starting image Step 3. Place and Drag the Linear Gradient Linear Gradients are a simple click and drag from the outside edge of the frame toward the center. Linear gradients can be horizontal, vertical or any variation of diagonal. You can even rotate them by hovering over the centerline. Step 4. Adjust the Effect Transition When you place your linear gradient, you will see three lines. Tip you can hide or show these lines by tapping the H’ key. The closer the lines are to each other, the more abrupt the effect transition will be. The further apart the lines are to each other, the softer teh effect transition will be. Step 5. Add Additional Linear Gradients You can add additional graduated filters as needed or right click on the small circular filter dot to duplicate the filter. But be careful as this can often be too dramatic and will probably need some further tweaking. TIP This option is available with all three tools we’ve discussed here. Optional Step 6. Remove Blur As with brushes and radial gradients, if you accidentally blur an area you would like to remain sharp, you can select the Subtract’ button in the Masks panel and remove it from those areas using the brush or any of the available masks. Again this is much easier to do if you’re utilizing the colored overlay. Final Image with Blur Added Save Your Settings as a Custom Blur Preset After you’ve finished using one of these techniques or a combination to blur your background, you can click the + symbol in the upper right hand side of the Presets’ module on the left hand side of Lightroom to save the brushes, radial or linear gradient filters you've just created to a new preset. This is an easy way to apply blur in the future without having to retrace all of these steps. Conclusion Although, blurring your background in Lightroom really can't replace the blur that can be created in-camera, it can definitely add SOME blur to your image. So, next time you miss capturing a nice blurry background in-camera, just remember that there’s an easy way to add that dreamy blur to your image in Lightroom! Do you have any questions or comments about How to Blur a Background in Lightroom? Leave us a comment below - we would LOVE to hear from you! And PLEASE SHARE this post using the social sharing buttons we really appreciate it!

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