Background blur, often called “bokeh” after the Japanese word for blur, is generally associated with high-end cameras with wide-aperture lenses. The effect is popular for portraits, and is emulated — ...

The Blur Gallery in Adobe Photoshop is different from the Blur Filters we’ve covered previously (both are found in Photoshop’s Filter menu). When you select Blur Gallery, Photoshop displays another ...

Photoshop Blur filters are designed primarily for retouching images—to soften, haze, cloud, fuzz, or distort specific areas of a picture or the entire image. Backgrounds are often blurred out to ...