Christmas bokeh. Bokeh, as you may already know, ... Find a plain background to shoot against, ideally a dark one, and arrange your lights – the more lights you include in the frame, ...

Once you have the lights, you need to shoot them with the right settings. To bring out their inner bokeh, you have to keep them out of focus, so make them the background element in your shot.

1. After 2. Before Before you get started. Photoshop includes a handful of different options to blur a background, with each option offering a varying level of control — and level of difficulty.

This shot was taken with Christmas lights hanging in the background and a small light on the subject in the foreground in an otherwise dark room. Exposure: 1/50, f/1.8, ISO 800 Lexy Savvides/CNET ...