Playing around in photoshop - adding Bokeh

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Playing around in photoshop - adding Bokeh

I guess this is another post in my playing /bored at home series, but this time yesterday I decided now is a good time to try to learn more of the features in photoshop, and I have bookmarked a few tutorials to watch and learn and for yesterday ist was a tutorial on how to add a Bokeh effect to an image, and I will share a couple of examples

Update What is bokeh

I realized after a few comments that I should have explained what is Bokeh so her is a definition of it

Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".

1 1 flower with added Bokeh2.jpg

^{Sony A7iii 240mm F8 1/125 Sec ISO 1600}
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The tutorial I watched is this one which was quite easy to follow

this next shot is the original unedited photo off the camera.

1 1 flower with added Bokeh before.jpg

^{Sony A7iii 240mm F8 1/125 Sec ISO 1600}
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I enjoyed doing the tutorial and trying it out with these two photos, I prefer getting the bokeh when I take the photo, so I don't think that is something I will do to often if at all, but in the process of doing this I did learn a few features I was unaware of and may be able to use them in regular photo editing from now on in so it was a good use of a bit of time and fun learning new things, Photoshop is so powerful I am sure I am barely scratching the surface of all it can do just using some of the basic features.
But maybe if I do a tutorial every day or two I will learn a lot over this time stuck at home.

Her is another edit I did adding the fake Bokeh, I think I prefer this one as it seems a more realistic looking bokeh than the first one