Make it Monday: Landscapes & Sharp Focus - Part III

For Part I of this "Make it Monday" series on Sharp Focus, we looked at how you could control your camera settings in order to achieve a deep depth of field with landscape photography; how to have everything in focus from the foreground all the way to the background.  For Part II of this series, we learned about focus stacking; how to ensure that everything in a macro image was also in sharp focus.  What is interesting about these two different posts is that the tutorials taught you the same thing although for two very different types of shooting: extreme wide-angle (landscape) verses extreme close-up (macro).  


In this blog post, we are going to look at a new feature that Photoshop CC has to offer that will help you focus your images in post.  Introducing the "Focus Mask": an automatic selection tool that makes it selections based off of what is in focus and what is not.  Think about the Magic Wand Tool; this tool bases it's selection on tone and color.  The Quick Selection Tool searches out similar textures and edges of objects in a photograph to create a selection.  Check out the video below where Senior Photoshop Manager Zorana Gee shares information about the new Focus Mask tool: 


Works Cited: 
 01. Gee, Zorana. "Photoshop CC Sneak Peek: Focus Masks." YouTube. Adobe Photoshop, n.d. Web. 21 July 2014.
02. Cade, DL. "Sneak Peek: A Useful Focus Selection Tool Is Coming to Photoshop CC on June 18th." PetaPixel RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 July 2014. 

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