The grid of thirds aside, there are many different ways of creating focus within a picture that are far more direct. With the power of a program like Adobe Photoshop behind you, there are many different ways of creating focus that take a small amount of time and return a very impressive effect.

One such method of false focus has to do with using the blur tool within Photoshop. Using this tool, you can actually blur the background around the main focus of your picture. Since the background is blurry and only the dominant object in the picture is actually in focus, there is a sort of false focus created around that object that draws the eye right to it.

Another way to do this is to emphasize through the use of colour. In Photoshop this is very easy to do. All you have to do is simply convert part of your image to monochromatic ranges, leaving the dominant objects within the image in full colour. This also creates false focus and when combined with a blurred background and a cropped image can quite literally force the viewer’s eye to focus in on the specific object that you want them to see.

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