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Bokeh

Shallow depth-of-field blur with blooming bokeh highlights

Fakes a camera's shallow depth of field: one region stays sharp — a centred subject or a horizontal band — and everything else softens the further it drifts from focus. Bright spots swell into the round, glowing discs photographers call bokeh.

I. Made with Bokeh

  • alphabet series / X by @goodbytes
  • Gradient Envelope by @goodbytes
  • specimen - dytiscus marginalis by @goodbytes
  • halloween by @goodbytes
  • obey by @goodbytes
  • horsing around by @goodbytes
  • MOSHPIT/UR TURN v4 by @goodbytes
  • pixels. sorted. by @goodbytes
  • MOSHPIT/UR TURN v5 by @Hyena
  • MOSHPIT/UR TURN v3 by @Hyena
  • knobs are for turning by @goodbytes
  • alphabet series / v by @goodbytes

II. Everything else

  • Blur — Gaussian blur of the layers below, with an optional progressive ramp
  • Diffuse — Scatters each pixel a random distance, for a grainy, frosted-glass blur
  • Directional Blur — Smears the layers below into motion-blur streaks — along a line, out from a point, or round it
  • Kuwahara — Edge-preserving painterly smoothing of the layers below
  • Stretch — Pulls the layers below away from a point into long, hard-edged ribbons

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