What is bokeh?

Boke is a term describing subjectiveThe artistic merits of the part of the picture that turned out to be out of focus in the photo. This is a fairly new term for the Russian language, it came from Japanese in the late 90s of the last century and in translation means "fuzziness, indistinctness".

In this article I will tell you in more detail what is bokeh.

Bokeh using a camera

Many photographers today deliberately perform bokeh, blurring the background and wanting

maximum highlight the main subject. Different lenses and shooting conditions make bokeh different, but there are no rules here - quality bokeh is a very subjective indicator.

Bokeh with the help of a graphic editor

Bokeh can also be done on the finished image, todayMany graphic editors have a bokeh effect in the tool list. Of course, artificial bokeh will differ from the present, and if you want to achieve the most plausible results, you should use Photoshop.

For information on how to make a bokeh effect using this editor, see How to make a bokeh in Photoshop (Photoshop).