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Bokeh blur — lets you control the amount of blur applied to the outside of an editable area and adjust the transition between the area in focus and the blurred area. You can also choose between circular and hexagonal aperture shapes. The aperture shape can affect light patterns that appear in the out-of-focus areas. This effect is most noticeable in small pinpoints of light on a dark background. For example, it can be used to simulate the way a camera lens handles lights that are out of focus. This effect can also be used effectively in combination with the Planar mask tool. For more information, see Using the Planar Mask tool.

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Colorize — lets you replace all colors in an image with a single color (or hue) to create a duotone image. You can then adjust the saturation or vividness of the color. A color with 100% saturation contains no white. A color with 0% saturation corresponds to a shade of gray. With this effect, you can create various single-color images. For example, a brownish hue can create a sepia effect, simulating the color of old photographs.

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Sepia toning — simulates the look created when you take a photo with sepia film. Sepia-toned images are similar to black-and-white photos (also known as grayscale photos), except the tones are brown instead of gray.

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Time machine — lets you walk your image back through history to recreate some popular photographic styles from the past. You can choose from seven styles, which range from the year 1839 to the 1960s.

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Using a mask tool, select the area of the image that you want to keep in focus.

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Click Effects Blur Bokeh blur.

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In the Bokeh blur dialog box, perform a task from the following table.

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Click Effects Camera, and choose one of the following effects:

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In the dialog box, specify the settings you want.

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