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Love Elements 2, but I got a qustion. Say you have a white ball against some trees (background), and you want to blur the trees more. I copy the scene in a layer, remove everything except the ball, and gaussian blur the background. Fine- ball’s sharp, trees are blurred. The problem is that the white of the ball also blurs (pixles spread out in all directions) so it looks like there’s a fuzzy white halo around the ball. Rats. So I go back and remove the ball in the background before blurring. Now there’s no white to "leak" over creating the halo effect. Finally, a crisp white ball, fuzzy background, no halo from the ball. (Hope all this makes sense!)
Is this the way to do it? Is there a better way?
Is this the way to do it? Is there a better way?
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