[Leica] A few new ones-

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

> From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:24:01 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] A few new ones-
> 
> 
>> Looks like you blur a lot, though. Maybe
>> the effect will get even better if you first put your main subjects in a
>> different layer on top of the background, blur the background and in here
>> paint the halo effect that you have now away. This way you'll get closer 
>> to
>> real lens blur IMO.
>> Philippe
> 
> This might be a very little better, but even then the blurred shape of the
> main subject will appear outside the subject, too. I'm anyway not a big
> friend of artificial bokehing. What about using a fast lens wide open
> instead of spending a lot of time in photoshop to fake a bokeh?
> Didier 
>  

That's why I said to paint the halo effect away ;-)