Easily Blur a Background in Photoshop with The Depth Blur Neural Filter

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  1. 0:00 Introduction
  2. 0:06 Step 01 - Duplicate the Original Layer Twice
  3. 0:15 Step 02 - Remove the Background From The Top Duplicate Layer
  4. 0:44 Step 03 - Select The Foreground and Expand The Selection
  5. 1:50 Step 04 - Use Content-Aware Fill To Remove the Foreground
  6. 2:39 Step 05 - Convert the Background Layer Into a Smart Object
  7. 2:55 Step 06 - Apply The Depth Blur Neural Filter
  8. 4:50 Step 07 - Fine-Tune and Fix Imperfections.
  9. 5:10 Edit The Layer Mask
  10. 5:48 Paint Digital Hair
  11. 6:20 Apply Camera Raw Adjustments
  12. 7:28 Final Thoughts
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In this tutorial, you will learn to easily blur a background in Photoshop using the Depth Blur Neural Filter.

This tutorial uses the Depth Blur Filter in Photoshop 2022 and newer.
For older versions follow this this older background blur tutorial.

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Jesús Ramirez

Jesús Ramirez is a graphic designer and the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, which he started in 2012 and has grown past two million YouTube subscribers. He has taught at Adobe MAX, Adobe Summit, and Photoshop World, teaches courses for CreativeLive and Pluralsight, and was one of five artists chosen for Adobe Stock's Make a Masterpiece campaign. His Photoshop templates shipped inside Photoshop CC 2018.

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  3. Thx Jesus! Is there a way to convert the Depth Map Output Only layer (generated from the Depth Blur neural filter) into a layer mask? I’ve tried all sorts of things and can’t figure it out….

  4. Your tutorials are fantastic! Thanks so much for providing such amazing tutorials and information on Photoshop. I just followed along on this one but the hair brush you used in the tutorial was not in the tutorial files download. The download only had the image of the woman used in the tutorial. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us all.

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