Photoshop for YouTube Creators: How to Blur the Background (2 Techniques)
Welcome to Thumbnail Thursday! Here we explore Photoshop techniques to elevate your YouTube thumbnails. In this episode, I'll show you two ways how to blur the background in Adobe Photoshop. In the first method we'll harness the power of Photoshop's neural filter for quick depth blur adjustments. In method 2 we'll see how the Select Subject, Quick Mask mode, and other tools can give us more control over our background blur.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Method 1: Neural Filter (Depth Blur)
2:58 When the Neural Filter doesn't work...
3:46 Method 2: Select Subject
9:00 Outro