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Sharpen Focus with Photoshop’s Auto-Blend Layers

Sharpen Focus with Photoshop’s Auto-Blend Layers

This tutorial is courtesy of the Russell Brown Show.

There are times when low light or other factors make it impossible to capture a photo with a deep depth of field, yet a shallow depth of field may not yield the result you’re going for.

In those situations, take several shots of the same subject (with a tripod if possible), varying the area that’s in focus with each shot. Then let Photoshop merge the areas of sharpest focus from those stacked images into one seamless composite that looks as if it were captured with a deep depth of field.

The trick is to use Auto-Blend Layers feature, as shown in this brief video.

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Russell Brown

RUSSELL BROWN is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, and an Emmy Award-winning instructor. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools, and his in-depth design knowledge and zany presentation style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike.