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If you haven’t noticed already we’re working with a dird – or a dog-bird. Okay, now that you know what the blur tool is capable of doing – let’s apply the motion blur to the same picture, but to a specific area of the picture instead of the whole thing. You can choose from radius, blade curvature, rotation, brightness, threshold and noise (what gives it that static look). Lens Blur allows you to apply different blur lenses to your picture. You can adjust the radius and threshold settings to make it exactly how you want. Surface Blur makes the whole picture seem a little faded or distant. You can blend certain pixels together if you’d like to. You can adjust the spin with the radius button. It makes it look trippy, like you’re going into a vortex or something. Radial Blur puts a spin to your blur, literally.

#BLUR IMAGE TOOL HOW TO#

See the tutorial at the end of this article on how to create a background in motion while keeping the object clear. Motion Blur puts your image into motion like if you took a photo of a biker, or a passing train. Gaussian Blur allows you to fine tune the blur. You can adjust the blur by changing the radius in the box blur pop-up box. If you want your selection to just be a little blurry (barely noticeable) – this will do it.īlur More will blur the picture more than the average blur will.īox Blur blurs all nearby-pixels together for a smooth, line-free blur. The radius blurs pixels at a certain distance away and the threshold indicates which type of pixels you want to see blur.Īverage blur is just that, average. Most of the blur options let you adjust the radius and threshold of the blur. For example, you can use the “blur more” tool and then use the “Gaussian blur” tool to fine tune the original blur. Note that all of these tools can be used in conjunction to create the perfectly blurred image. For any of these filters you can apply the blur to the whole image, or sections of the image as discussed in a moment. Within the blur toolbox (which you can access by going to Filter>Blur) you have several more blur options including: Average, Blur More, Box, Gaussian, Motion, Radial, Smart, Surface and Lens. See an example below, the top train is the original, a section of the bottom train has been blurred.

You can adjust the size of the brush and the hardness ( how much blur you want) at the top of your screen. You just paint over the part of the image you wish to blur. When you click on the blur tool your cursor turns into a circle and it acts as a paint brush. The long and short of it is: the blur tool blurs your image.

If you’re new to Photoshop, take this Photoshop 101 course. If you right click it, you’ll be presented with the smudge tool, the sharpen tool and the blur tool. It’s on the tool panel which is defaulted to the left side of your Photoshop screen. The blur tool icon looks like a rain drop.

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For more about skin touch-ups read Airbrush in Photoshop. It helps smooth out the edges and blemishes without “coloring” them in. This tool is also used when touching up skin in photos. You can use the blur tool to highlight an object in a photo by blurring the other objects in the photo. It helps create the sense of movement in a photo when the picture was taken stationary.

However, this tool gives you the flexibility to blur certain sections of a photo, like the background, while leaving the foreground in focus. The blur tool is used to – you guessed it – blur images. Here, I’ll go over what the tool is, how to customize it for your project and a few practical applications of “the blur”. The blur tool is one of the most widely used functions in Photoshop and it has an array of capabilities. There are guides like this one, courses like Photoshop Tools, and support forums to help you navigate the program. The extensive selections of tools in Photoshop can be daunting for novice users there are a zillion buttons to push and each button has its own subset of tools. It allows photographers to touch up their photos, graphic designers to create images and Facebook meme lovers to design their own internet sensations. Photoshop is a great program to use for just about everything.

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