How To Create Flawless DYNAMIC BLUR & CHANGE COLORS in Snapseed App | Android | iPhone

Today we are gonna create an eye popping background blur by also altering colors by using only Snapseed free app.

• First I will retouch the parts which are in focus, basically the foreground.
• So opening Tune Image, will decrease the highlights to the maximum to get more details from the
• brighter parts.
• Decreasing the brightness just a little using Curves.
• As I am planning to change the color of the bug, for the moment I will desaturate the
• colors on the bug which will make it easier to get the colors we need.
• So adding Black & White filter to the overall image.
• Seeing which color would get the right brightness on the bug, will settle on Neutral which looks good here.
• Now going to masking screen...
• ...brushing on the bug roughly to make it desaturated.
• Not worried about brushing on the surroundings as you will know later.
• If you don't need to change the color, this step is not needed.
• Will save this image which will be used later.
• Next I am gonna revert the image to it's original state as I will be working on the background now.
• Opening the Healing tool, I am gonna brush on the focused elements to remove them.
• This is needed to not have halos around them in the final output.
• Now using Lens blur tool, choosing linear option.
• Will move it to a corner.
• Increasing the Blur strength to the maximum.
• Will apply it one more time for more blur.
• Setting the blur strength to about 80 this time.
• Using Curves to reduce the brightness of the background
• Also adding bit of greens.
• Now using Double Exposure, adding the earlier saved image and setting it's opacity at 100.
• Going to masking screen...
• ...revealing the image by roughly brushing on the foreground.
• Then zooming in and carefully brushing outside the edges.
• To get precise selection, zooming in to the maximum and brushing.
• Will fast-forward this as this is time consuming.
• So here's the result after the masking work.
• Will use a selective filter to brighten the bug a bit.
• Adding some contrast too.
• Now to add color to the bug, I am gonna open Curves.
• Will drag the blue curve towards right to add yellows.
• Also green curve towards left which gives this greenish color.
• Now going to masking screen, will brush on the bug to reveal the color only on the bug.
• Here's the green colored bug.
• If you want to change it to a different color, you just need to go to the same Curves effect
• and tune the color curves differently.
• For example, adding magentas and blues to get this purplish color.
• As the masking is already done, the new colored bug is ready.
• You can tune the contrast if necessary with Curves to fine tune the result.
• Here are few more different colored bugs.
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