"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message news:4b56be24@news.povray.org...
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> It's surprising how easily you can get this effect by just blurring a 
> couple of areas in photoshop by hand.

I did that a few years ago for an image I did... the rendering software I 
was using didn't support depth of field, so after rendering the image, I 
made a series of increasingly larger and feathered masks around the main 
subject, inverted each one, and applied a succession of small (but 
cumulative) Gaussian blurs to the image. I'm sure it didn't look anything 
like a real macro lens or what 3D DOF could be with a better program, but it 
was a nice effect.

I saw a great process for doing this with After Effects, too. If you render 
a depth map (a B&W image of the scene where surfaces further from the camera 
are darker and ones closer are lighter), there's a way to attach the depth 
map to the DOF filter in AE, and have DOF without the tremendous rendering 
overhead it usually seems to take.

--
Jack

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