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Fake focus in snapshots
Hello Toonie
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Join date: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 212
07-29-2006 12:37
The 'depth' option in the new snapshot dialog gives us enough data to fake focus effects in snapshots. The attached snaps use this data as an alpha mask to simply cross-fade between raw and blurred versions of the corresponding 'color' data -- other, harder approaches to the same problem are possible but I found this simple and pleasing enough. :)

Hmm, and yup, I'm somehow totally failing to make inline 'img' tags work in this forum. Oh well!
Hello Toonie
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Join date: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 212
07-29-2006 13:06
If anyone else uses a similar method to get nice fake-focus shots, please post the results to this thread! :)
Eryn Curie
Lost in the fog
Join date: 24 May 2004
Posts: 205
07-29-2006 18:28
That's brilliant, Hello. That looks so great!

Love the Robbie one especially; in true Silent Hill form, the weird scary thing closest to the camera that one would -- for one's own sense of self-preservation at the very least -- most WANT to be sharp and clear is nicely blurred. <3
Revons Rutabaga
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Join date: 17 Mar 2006
Posts: 10
07-30-2006 08:41
Thats like something useful with the new snapshots
Richie Waves
Predictable
Join date: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,424
07-30-2006 23:58
second pic looks awesome!! nice nice nice!!
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Shoshana Epsilon
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Join date: 17 Dec 2005
Posts: 85
Fake focus in a portrait
08-04-2006 18:34
This picture was taken before the new snapshot capabilities.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78768492@N00/141760736/in/set-72057594130431934/