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Subject: Re: [OM] Sometimes Flutterby Monday
From: Mike Gordon via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:27:18 -0400
Cc: usher99@xxxxxxx
Appreciate your looking and commenting Jim, Chris, and Moose.  Curiously I did 
drop the brightness of the background by 15% but perhaps a bit more was 
warranted.  I did save the PSD file in case of suggestions.

The ferns in background were quite close and the bokeh a smidge edgy.  I tried 
to avoid artifacts in blurring the background with lens blur followed by just a 
few pixel Gaussian with a quick  touch up of any edge issues.  

I tried to do it the sure fire no artifact way by eliminating the subject pre 
blur.   The quick go at it w/o masking PS did not let me get  away with 
it---selected b'fly very carefully, copied layer with selection, inverted 
selection on top layer and cut  background out.   On layer below inverted 
selection again to select b'fly and cut it out, then reinverted to select 
background with an eye towards two rounds of different blurs. PS said  no way  
Jose and directed  one to convert to smart object but blur tools still greyed 
out.  So much for shortcutting Maestro Moose masked method. 

Rusty masker, Mike 
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