Bokeh Designs

I was playing around with Photoshop CS6 and wanted to learn how to do Bokeh! So I took a random photo and made it blurry and played around with the hue/saturation and the levels.

Then, I just used the brush tool on a hard round brush.

Inside of the brushes folder in the options bar: I can change the shape dynamics and check off Scattering.

Run the brush across the picture. You can change the size of the spots to give it a more varying pattern. 

Filter>Blur> Gaussian Blur to make the spots blurry.

Then you add a new layer and do all the same things but make each layer a little less blurry.

You can play around with the transparency and the normal menu on the layers panel.