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Creative blurring effects

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Creative blurring effects

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- [Instructor] Photoshop has several different blur filters, both under the Blur Gallery as well as the Blur menu. To create a simple uniform blur in an image, the Gaussian blur works really well, as do many of the other blurs, but for the most part, the filters listed underneath the Blur Gallery have more options and offer additional controls for selective blur effects, and they actually change the amount of blur over the length of the blur. Now, before adding a blur, I'm going to convert the background into a smart object and then choose filter, Blur Gallery and will start with the field blur. The default blur for field blur is a simple one pin blur. We can reposition this pin by dragging it, but it's going to stay the same because there's only one blur pin. I can increase the amount of blur or decrease the amount of blur, but the key here is to have more than one blur point. As soon as I click again, I can then…

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