How to blur out the background of the photo in Photoshop

What’s up people, today I’m gonna show you how you can blur out the background of a photo in Photoshop to give it a professional look.

Open up your Photoshop and drag and drop (or open) your photo.

Grab your quick selection tool and start selecting the background or foreground (object you want in focus).

Pay attention to the plus and minus signs on the top. Make sure that plus sign is selected.

 

Now here’s the thing. You have to select the background in order to blur it out. But in most of the cases, foreground (object in focus) is easier to select than the background. If that happens to be your case, just select the foreground first, then right click on the selection and click ‘Select inverse’. That will select the background for you.

Once you have the area you want to blur selected, click on refine edge icon on the top and increase the smoothness a little bit and click OK.

After that, go to ‘Filters’ option on top and navigate to ‘Blur’ and finally ‘Lens Blur’

Now a new window will pop up showing you all the settings and their effect. Adjust the ‘Radius’ to a position where you feel your photo looks natural. Remember that too much blur will make your photo look artificial and unreal. You can play around with some other settings to but not too much.

After that, click ‘OK’ and it will apply the effect on your picture. After that you can save your photo.