Depth of Field

I choose one of the pictures I'd takes several years ago when we sailed under the Golden Gate. My camera in those days wasn't too good, so I tried to improve the picture a bit.  I also think that the picture is a bit out of focus so it might appear blurry.  Of course it was taken from a rocking boat since we had very little breeze on that sail.  Anyway, I tried to blur the bottom half and keep the top half in focus.  To do this I drew the gradient from the edge of the water upwards to the deck of the bridge.

Sailing  under the Golden Gate with depth of field

Masks

I chose to use the supplied  graphic from the one-on-one text to complete this mask.  I'd tried this process earlier and couldn't get it to work.  I'm so pleased that this time it worked.  I must have learned something in the last few weeks.

Using a Mask to create a Composite

Part 2 - Using the Mask Palette

This was a fun exercise. Of course there wasn't a lot of work to do since the author had created all effects in layers and it was merely an exercise of turning things on.

Using the Mask Palette