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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 390252" data-attributes="member: 9240">I realize you weren't trying to focus stack, I was just saying that (without the addition of blur and whatnot, which you did later) your original experiment could only be seen as something of that sort.The use of blur with blending modes can indeed be something to bring out details in an image.  I would recommend doing it on a copy of a single image rather than bringing in copies of various apertures, because face it, once you add blur the impact of the greater DoF is almost moot.  Jimmy McIntyre has a set of free Photoshop actions that he uses and one of them is called a Detail Enhancer which is a combination of blurs and inversions of the original image and various blending modes and opacity levels.  It takes a while to run but it is brilliant in what it can do to make portions of an image pop, particularly with landscapes.</blockquote>