MyPhotoSoft: Software for Your Digital Life
Saturday 05th of July 2008


     News           Reviews           Forum           Gallery           Tutorials           Contact Us   
all articles
MyPhotoSoft RSS
feed image

 

 

Home arrow Tutorials arrow Tips and Tricks arrow How to Add Motion to your Image

 

How to Add Motion to your Image Print E-mail

The effect you'll learn to use in this tutorial helps to intensify the idea of motion and at the same time creates a new background void of unnecessary detail. The tool used is the simple Radial Blur Filter.

1. Open your image and copy background layer. We'll be working with the copy to preserve the original untouched.

A girl on a dolphin

2. Make another layer copy - it'll contain the mask.
3. Staying in the top layer make a selection of the girl and the dolphin she is sitting on.

selection

4. Add layer mask - the selection will disappear but you will see a white rectangle with the black figure inside appear in the layer representation in the layers palette.

layers palette

5. Click on the second layer, it'll serve as background. Go to Filters > Blur > Radial Blur and use the following settings (you can change the amount of blur, of course, and see if it suits your image better):

radial blur settings

6. Merge the layers, if you are satisfied. After that I used Image > Adjustment > Levels to intensify the colors.

the result

levels settings