wrote: > I have a number of layers strewn about in z space, and I want my foregroun= d layers in focus and my background layers out of focus. But for the life of= me I can't seem to find the right combo of aperture / focus-distance / blur= level. If I increase the aperture, some of my foreground layers go blurry. I= f I lower it, everything in the background comes back into focus. I can't se= em to create a window that keeps the desired FG objects in focus while throw= ing the BG objects out of focus. I wonder if I'm using some non-standard va= lues, or perhaps i'm asking for something that's not possible. >=20 > In this screenshot, I'd like all the orange X's in focus and all the green= circles out of focus: > http://i.imgur.com/g54hfxc.png >=20 > project: > http://bit.ly/11qnLnj >=20 --Apple-Mail-077B57C9-6339-4581-8B8C-151ADBC4B0A1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Move your focus distance c= loser. The DOF blur works like a camera, kind of. The focus distance is the f= ocus ring of the camera, it adjusts how far away the center of your in-focus= area will be. The aperture adjusts how wide (in z-space) your in-focus area= is, and the blur controls how much or how quickly things become out or focu= s. Does that help?

Bruce Wainer

On Feb 1, 20= 13, at 6:58 PM, "scott.aelist" <scott.aelist@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a number of layers strewn about in z space, and I w= ant my foreground layers in focus and my background layers out of focus. But= for the life of me I can't seem to find the right combo of aperture / focus= -distance / blur level. If I increase the aperture, some of my foreground la= yers go blurry. If I lower it, everything in the background comes back into f= ocus. I can't seem to create a window that keeps the desired FG objects in f= ocus while throwing the BG objects out of focus. I wonder if I'm using= some non-standard values, or perhaps i'm asking for something that's not po= ssible.

In this screenshot, I'd like all the orange X's in focus and all the gre= en circles out of focus:
http://i.imgur.com/g54hfxc.png

project:
http://bit.ly/11qnLnj

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