Focus Peaking Tutorial Step 3

Then we apply a surface blur to the new layer. This is to smooth out fine detail, especially digital noise, so that edges become more clearly defined and to minimize the risk of out of focus areas also becoming selected. A radius of 15 and threshold of 19 should be enough. If the image doesn’t have a lot of digital noise, it’s better to skip this step.
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