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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January 12th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Nice to see an irish tutorial i have to say, cheers.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hi Ryan, thanks for visiting!
Your photographs on your website are fantastic.
January 15th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Nice quick tutorial, well done Jennifer
January 15th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Thanks Kevin.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:26 am
I have Photoshop and it drives me nuts…Thanks for all the information and related pages…
December 31st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I was having trouble doing a simple motion blur…now it is easy, thanks!
Dave
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Dave and Nancy, you’re very welcome.