From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Advanced

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,900 courses taught by industry experts.

Adding a custom Motion Blur effect

Adding a custom Motion Blur effect - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Advanced

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Adding a custom Motion Blur effect

“

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to embue your airplane with a custom motion blur effect so that it appears to be rushing forward at a kind of mind-boggling speed. I'll go ahead and switch over to my image, so far, and what you want to do, if you're working along with me, is scroll to the very top of the stack, here inside the layers panel, and go ahead and click on that top darkened layer. Now we want to select the airplane, and you can do that by loading the layer mask as a selection outline. And to make that happen you want to press the control key, or the command key on the Mac, and click on the layer mask thumbnail for the airplane layer. So just go ahead and control or command click on that layer mask in order to convert the mask to a selection outline, at which point you'll see marching ants tracing the perimeter of your airplane. Then go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy Merged command, which is…

Contents