To Make Something to Pop, Blur Everything Else

When trying to crop a person or an animal, many times some of the detail doesn’t transfer well – like rogue hairs. Sometimes you need to just give up and forget about the tiny details, and focus on the bigger picture. You can cut those rogue hairs and not include them in the new photo.

 

When you don’t have a suitable background, use a pattern background instead. The lack of a background – the big white hole, will draw people’s eyes to it, but a patterned background with a simple design will keep the eyes on the subject. You can download patterns from all over the internet, or make your own.

 

Sometimes you see a brush that creates an effect you would like to get, but somehow that brush isn’t quite right. Instead of spending all that time searching and trying hundreds of brushes, try to edit it or to create a brush on your own – it will allow you much more freedom.

 

It might seem unnecessary, since often times the effect you wanted to achieve has been achieved, but saving the detailed layer files as well as the output is smart, even though it will take up more space. You may someday need to change something, or in another project, you might want to do what you succeeded to do in one of the layers – so you won’t have to do it again.

 

You may want to make an ordinary object more attractive and visible. One way to do that – which could have been done while photographing the object, but can also be done in Photoshop – is to make everything else around it blurry, and to turn the brightness of the object up a bit.