How to Create Bokeh Lighting Portrait Effect In Photoshop - Add Light Blur Background to Photos

In this photoshop photo effects tutorial, learn how to create realistic and beautiful lighting background bokeh in photoshop.
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Create Background Bokeh Lighting Effect in Photoshop.

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Open an image or portrait with Lights as a background.

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First of all, you need to extract main subject from background.

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Choose Select And Mask.

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Take Quick Selection Tool and select the subject.

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Now take Refine Edge Brush Tool.

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Brush over soft areas such as hair to add fine details to the selection.

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Tick the Decontaminate Colours box to remove any color fringing.

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In Output Settings, use New Layer with Layer Mask.

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We successfully cutout the main subject.

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Now duplicate background layer and remove main subject from it.

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Hold CTRL key and click on layer mask to select and expand the selection by 10 pixels.

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Now select bokeh layer and go to edit, fill the selection with content aware tool.

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Now increase contrast to boost mid tones.

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Now we need to convert lights into bokeh lighting.

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Goto filter gallery and select field blur.

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Now adjust blur amount depand on size of your background.

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Similarly adjust light bokeh and light range.

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Once you are happy with lights, click OK.

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Hold ALT or OPT key and click on layer mask to see alpha layer.

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Take soft overlay brush and clean the edges of the mask with black.

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Finally add color lookup kodak lut preset to color grade .

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Adjust opacity to your preference.

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That's it. We're done.

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