Today we are going to create digital bokeh effect in photoshop cs5, very easy to make and result will be awesome, so lets start making it.

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Step 1.

Open a new document of your desired resolution, i am using 1280 x 1024 px resolution, then create a new layer and fill it with given gradient, or you can use your own colored gradient and some inner glow too

Thats what we have now

Step 2.

Now create a new layer and select Elliptical Marquee Tool and draw a circle and fill it with as shown

Step 3.

Simply duplicate this layer and spread all over the document as shown

Step 4.

Now Select all layers and merge them by pressing Ctrl+E then go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur and apply the given blur

Step 5.

Now go to Layers palette and simply change this layer’s blending mode to Overlay as shown

Step 6.

Now create another new layer, again select Elliptical Marquee tool and draw a smaller circle this time and fill it with white

Step 7.

Open Blending Options and apply 2 pixels white stroke

Step 8.

Now simply lower its Fill to 20%

Step 9.

Now again duplicate and spread this circle all over as we done before, then merge all layers and change blending mode to overlay as shown

Step 10.

Similarly make the bigger ones, and spread as you like.

Thats our Final Image

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Other Samples Made with same Technique

I hope you liked learning this new bokeh effect.
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