Photoshop: Creative Blurring

Overview

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Learn how to create stunning visual effects with the new set of blur filters in Photoshop CC.

Expand your thinking beyond Gaussian Blur. The new set of creative blurring tools in Photoshop CC 2014 allows you to take your photography and digital art to new heights. In this course, photographer and educator Chris Orwig shows how to use the filters in the Blur Gallery (including Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, and more) in creative projects like these:

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Adding Energy with Movement Blurs

Adding a radial zoom blur
Customizing the radial blur with a mask
Adding a vertical motion blur
Combining multiple filter effects together

2. Creating a Fun Illustration with Blur Effects

Making basic adjustments in Camera Raw
Extracting the people from the background
Blurring the background with a radial blur
Colorizing the background with Hue/Saturation
Creating a tilt-shift blur on the merged layer
Adding typography
Creating a glow effect and reviewing the project

3. Creating Abstraction with Shape Blur

Demonstrating how Shape Blur works
Beginning with Shape Blur
Adding a mask to the shape blur later
Using Shape Blur to create abstraction

4. Clarifying Your Vision with Tilt-Shift Blur

Starting off with Camera Raw
Enhancing color and tone with three adjustment layers
Creating a blur-and-grain effect

5. Adding to a Portrait with Color and Blur Effects

Making basic adjustments with Camera Raw
Fine-tuning in Camera Raw with the HSL and Split Toning panels and the Radial filter
Making improvements with Hue/Saturation and Curves
Adding a Field Blur effect
Sharpening and reviewing the project

6. Building a Book Cover