Last year we showed you how to make your own custom-shaped bokeh highlights—the soft, out-of-focus, points of light in a photo background—and even built our own DIY bokeh rig. Now we're back to test a ...

Bokeh is a word to describe the quality and appearance of the out of focus areas in a photograph. In this tutorial I'll show you how to change the shape of the bokeh in your photographs by making a ...

Bokeh is the out-of-focus specular highlights you see time and again in images such as portraits or still life. It's often achieved by focusing on a subject that’s separated from a concentrated light ...

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Notice how the bokeh in the foreground is much bigger? It's exaggerated the farther away the ...