The tutorial will show a quick way to blur a background to make the subject stand out

Jan 28, 2014 14:24 GMT  ·  By

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful image editing tool that allows you to perform outstanding changes to your images without compromising the quality of your photo.

Because Photoshop is such a complex image editing application, mastering all its tools might prove to be an almost impossible task if you try to do it all by yourself.

To help its customer better understand how the basic Photoshop tools work, Adobe constantly publishes new videos on its YouTube page with quick and easy to understand tutorials for the most common actions that can be performed within the application.

In this new video, Photoshop Sr. Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes explains how you can make the subject in your photo stand out by creating a shallow depth of field using background blur. Check out the video above to learn how you can use the Iris Blur tool to create a selective focus effect.