Focus in 2d

I am wondering if anyone knows how to achieve a focus point, near the 'middle' of a picture. For example, picture a rope stretched from your moniter, down a long hall, can anyone help me on how to 'focus' on the middle of the rope? I don't want to have to create a model and render and that sort of thing. Is this possible with maybe blur techniques?

well, if you know how to draw perspective on paper, then you can also do it on screen, just put a small dot on another layer and then center it vertically and horizontally.. then draw all the lines to it.


Snore

perspective i can handle, i was wondering more about the focus (blur and sharp - but not just blur and sharpen in ps).

Here's how you do that. Its all about Gaussian Blur and layer masking.


1. Duplicate the rope layer.

2. Gaussian Blur the lower copy of the rope layer.

3. On the upper rope layer, add a layer mask.

4. Use either your gradient fill tool or the airbrush tool to remove (mask out) some of the upper rope layer.

Where the masked out upper rope layer is, you should see the blurred out lower rope layer, thus achieving the blurry/sharp focus effect you were wanting.

Now the lower blurred out rope layer will be completely visible, which means you will have a glow/halo effect around your uppermost and sharp focused rope. I suggest adding a layer mask to the blurred out layer and use your airbrush tool to remove the halo effect.

Here's how you do that. Its all about Gaussian Blur and layer masking. Of course, the "rope" is just an example, this can be done with anything in PS (of course).


1. Duplicate the rope layer.

2. Gaussian Blur the lower copy of the rope layer.

3. On the upper rope layer, add a layer mask.

4. Use either your gradient fill tool or the airbrush tool to remove (mask out) some of the upper rope layer.

Where the masked out upper rope layer is, you should see the blurred out lower rope layer, thus achieving the blurry/sharp focus effect you were wanting.

Now the lower blurred out rope layer will be completely visible, which means you will have a glow/halo effect around your uppermost and sharp focused rope. I suggest adding a layer mask to the blurred out layer and use your airbrush tool to remove the halo effect.

IF you dont wanna use layer masking this is an easy way

select the area you want unfocused then hit shift+alt+D(feather)and choose like 30 or whatever you want then go to gaussian blur and choose whatever amound of blur you want thats it!