Photoshop Tutorial: Adding a motion blur and using a layer mask

By Jennifer Farley | Nov 28 2007 |

In today’s short video tutorial, I’m going to run through how to create the effect of a motion blur in Photoshop. This is pretty easy to do using filters such as the, ahem, “motion blur” filter. If you apply the motion blur to the whole image, then the whole lot looks blurry so for that reason I’m using a layer mask to reveal only the parts of the image that should be blurred. This gives a more realistic appearance to the blur. There is nearly always two ways to do things in Photoshop, so what you see here before you is one method. All comments and suggestions are welcome!

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6 Responses to “Photoshop Tutorial: Adding a motion blur and using a layer mask”

  1. Jason D. Moore Photography » Blog Archive » P&P Weekly: #58 on December 3rd, 2007 12:25 pm

    [...] Jennifer of Laughing Lion Design has a tutorial about adding a motion blur and using a layer mask. [...]

  2. Ryan Cronin on January 12th, 2008 2:24 pm

    Nice to see an irish tutorial i have to say, cheers.

  3. Jennifer on January 12th, 2008 8:02 pm

    Hi Ryan, thanks for visiting!

    Your photographs on your website are fantastic.

  4. Kevin on January 15th, 2008 2:03 am

    Nice quick tutorial, well done Jennifer

  5. Jennifer on January 15th, 2008 10:52 am

    Thanks Kevin.

  6. Nancy on February 29th, 2008 2:26 am

    I have Photoshop and it drives me nuts…Thanks for all the information and related pages…

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