The complexity of the task remains at a minimum, all that is required of you is to have Photoshop itself, no brushes, plugins, special programs and other additional materials. I think after all the work done with you, this one will not create any problems for you. This effect is applied very simply, but creates an interesting effect of movement.
At all motion effect is very often used in the post-processing of photos with sports cars, we will not come up with something new and creative and will choose the same topic for this tutorial. Good luck everyone, let's go...
- 1. Load our source document into Photoshop. Let's start by creating a torque effect for the wheels of our car. Select the Eleptical Marquee Tool and create a selection of the inside of the wheels.
- 2. Copy the selection to a new layer (Ctrl+J). Re-create a selection on our new layer (Ctrl+Left-click on the layer icon in the layers palette) and apply the Radial Blur Filter (Filter > Blur > Radial Blur). We don’t forget about and try to choose the colors for your works as competently as possible, since they directly determine how the color will make a person feel. We set the following settings:
We perform the same operations with the second wheel:
- 3. Create a copy of our background layer (I called it Motion) and apply the Motion Blur Filter to it (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur). The following settings:
- 4. Select the Morion layer and go to the menu Layer> Layer Mask> Hide All (Layer> Layer Mask> Hide All). Select a brush, size 50 pixels, hardness 0% and draw a mask as shown in the picture below (I marked in red the areas that you need to paint white)
- 5. Finally, let's add a highlight (Filter > Render > Highlight) to our car layer.
In the end, we can add that the lesson was actually easy, and there were no major tasks in it, because there is nothing complicated in creating the effect of movement. I'm glad for those who got everything 5+.
Blur effect that creates a feeling high speed, today is often used in photo processing and in the creation of videos and films.
In reality, motion blur occurs when the shutter speed on your camera is slow enough to capture the movement of your subject in the frame.
In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to artificially create a motion blur effect. You can try to capture a moving subject while you're shooting, resulting in a beautifully blurred stream of color and light.
The main difficulty is achieving a balance between blur and the visibility of object details. You can only get good results through trial and error. But, unfortunately, there is not always time for this trial and error.
Blur effect in the photo
The blur resulting from using long shutter speeds doesn't always capture the motion effect we want. In such cases, photo editors come to the rescue. In this lesson we will work in Photoshop program Elements.
We'll show you how to make the blur match the perspective of the object (in this case, the train), that is, the direction of the blur will coincide with the direction of the train lines.
Then you'll learn how to work with a layer mask and selectively reduce the effect in certain areas of the image to reveal the details of the subject.
We will also demonstrate how to properly work with a layer mask, which will help you compose additional objects in the frame, with which you can make the foreground and background more interesting.
How to Create a Motion Blur Effect
1. Open the original image
To get started, download our Master motion blur source files. Open the blur_before01.jpg document. In the Layers panel, double-click the background layer thumbnail to unlock it. From the toolbar, select Magic Wand tool (Magic wand) and set the value Tolerance(Tolerance) 20. Check the box next to Contiguous(Adjacent pixels). Click on the image to highlight the white sky.
2. Smooth the edges
The edges don't look quite straight, we need to smooth them out a little. Choose Select>Inverse(Select>Inverse). Click on the button Refine Edge(Refine Edge), which is in the Tool Options bar. Set the View to On Black. Place a checkmark next to the parameter Smart Radius(Smart Radius) and set the radius to 2.9 pixels, and Feather(Shading) 1.7. In the Output to column, select ‘New layer with layer mask’. Click Ok.
3. Adjusting the mask
In the toolbar, select a tool Brush(Brush), in the tool options panel, open the list of brush presets and select the hard round brush. Set the size to 35. Set the background color to white. Click on the layer mask. Use a white brush to restore missing details and a black brush to hide unwanted areas, such as the lantern in the background.
- Advice: In Photoshop, in order not to clutter the menu, some tools are hidden under the icons of other tools; in order to see and activate them, you need to click on the tool icon right click mice.
4. Add an image of the sky
In the list of source files, select the document blur_before01.jpg and open it in the program. Select Select>All(Select>All) and then Edit>Copy(Edit>Copy). Go to the main image tab and click Edit>Paste(Edit>Paste). The sky will appear in the Layers panel as Layer 1. Drag this layer to a position above the train layer. Use the tool Move(Move) to place dramatic clouds directly above the train.
5. Apply a filter
Click on the top layer with the mask (Layer 0 copy). Press Ctrl/Cmd+J to duplicate it. Rename the layer to 'Blur layer'. Go to the tab Filter>Blur>Radial Blur. Set the blur method to Zoom and quality to Best. Move the center of the blur so that the blur lines match the angle of the train lines.
6. Increase speed
In the previous step, to add blur, we set the Amount to 10. To give the feeling of even greater speed, duplicate this effect by holding down the Ctrl/Cmd+F keys. Now the train has become so blurry that it is difficult for us to distinguish details. The ground, as you can see, is also blurred. We need to change the layer mask.
7. Reduce blur
Reduce Opacity(Opacity) of the layer to 94% to bring out a little more detail from the layer below. Arm yourself with a tool Brush(Brush). Select a soft round brush from the brush presets menu. Set the brush size to 600 pixels and Opacity to 25%. Click on the layer mask. Reduce the blur in the area where the driver is and the engine number area by painting over these parts with a brush.
8. Drawing in the details
Restore the brush's opacity to 100% and reduce its size to 300 pixels. Use a black brush to paint over the layer mask on the areas that you don't want to blur, namely the platform and the fence in the background. You can change the layer mask at any time and make some details more clear or, conversely, blurry.
9. Letting off steam
Open the blur_before05.jpg file. Select a tool Lasso(Lasso). Set the Feather value to 45 pixels. Draw a smooth selection around the column of smoke. Select Enhance>Auto Contrast(Enhance>Auto Contrast) and then Edit>Copy(Edit>Copy). Let's go to File>New>Blank File(File>New>New Empty File). Click on Ok and then go to the tab Edit and choose Paste(Insert).
10. Invert layers
Click on the white background layer and press Ctrl/Cmd+I to invert it to black. Then select the steam layer and press Ctrl/Cmd+I to invert the layer to white. Thus, we will get an image of white steam on a black background. Use an eraser to remove pipe marks. Then go to Layer>Flatten Image.
11. Insert and position
Select Enhance>Adjust Color>Remove Color(Enhance>Color Settings>Desaturate) and then Enhance>Auto Contrast. The next step is to go to Select>All to make a selection and then Edit>Copy to copy the selection. Go to the file we were working with before and click Edit>Paste(Edit>Paste). Change the blending mode of the steam layer to Screen to get rid of the black color. Use the tool Move(Move) to position the smoke in the desired location.
12. Scaling
Press Ctrl/Cmd+J to duplicate the steam layer. Then use the combination Ctrl/Cmd+T to activate the tool Free Transform(Free Transformation). In the tool settings, set the value for Angle(Angle) equal to -180. Uncheck the box next to Constrain Proportions. For W set the value to 200%, and for H to 150%. Inside the frame, drag the steam image as shown in the photo. Reduce the layer opacity to 85%.
13. Open the image with luggage
Open the blur_before03.jpg file. Use the tool Rectangular Marquee Tool(Rectangular area) to highlight the luggage section. Select Edit>Copy. Go to our project tab and click Edit>Paste. Go to Image>Rotate>Flip Layer Horizontal(Image>Orientation>Flip Horizontal).
14. Making an even selection
To make a smooth selection and separate the luggage from the previous background, select the Quick Selection tool. Set the size to 50. Click on the New selection icon. We run the tool over the luggage to make an even selection. Click on the icon Subtract from selection(Subtract from Selection) To remove an unnecessary selection area, in Photoshop you need to hold down the key Alt.
15. Smooth the edges
Select Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection(Layer>Layer Mask>Show Selection). The layer mask will hide most of the background, but the jagged edges will still remain. Click on the layer mask. Take the tool Brush(Brush). Using a black brush on the layer mask, paint over all areas where the background on which the luggage was previously visible is visible, and, on the contrary, use a white brush to restore the missing parts of the luggage.
16. Adjusting tones
Now the luggage looks a little overexposed in the overall picture. Click on the luggage layer thumbnail (not the layer mask). Go to Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Levels(Enhancement>Light Correction>Levels). Drag the black level slider to 27 to make the luggage shadow darker. Click Ok.
17. Add shadows
Use the tool Move Tool to place luggage on the platform. To add shadows create a new layer: Layer>New>Layer. Move a new layer under the luggage layer and change its Blending Mode to Overlay. Arm yourself with a tool Brush. Set black background color and select a soft round brush. Draw the shadow of the luggage on the platform.
18. Finishing touches
Open the blur_before04.jpg file. Using the selection technique we used with the luggage, move the flowers from open document to our picture. Scale them to 40%, duplicate the layer and place more colors in the right corner. Use the tool Free Transform to change their position.
Movement is life. Thanks to this interesting effect, we show all the dynamics of the photograph, it becomes more expressive. A few clicks in Photoshop, and we can display the speed of this girl's jump!
1. Open the image in Photoshop.
2. Open the Layers palette by pressing F7 or go to the menu: Window-Layers. Press Ctrl+J to copy the layer, or go to the Layer-Dublicate Layer menu
Name this layer “motion”, to do this, double-click on the Layer1 label itself, enter a name - OK.
3. Now for the “motion” layer we will create our blur, go Filter-Blur-Moution Blur
5. Depending on the size of your photo, adjust: Distance - movement distance, Angle - angle of movement direction
A white square will appear in the “motion” layer next to the icon; click on it to activate it.
7. Then select a gradient in the toolbar and make sure the gradation is black and white.
8. We stretch the black-and-white gradient from the beginning of the movement path to the center of the object. If desired, the “motion” layer can be adjusted with transparency; in the Layers palette, set the Transparency to 90%.
Here's how it happened:
You can click on the end and middle points to move them and adjust the direction of the blur:
If you hover your mouse over the path, you can add a new point:
You can move the entire path; to do this, hold down Ctrl, hover the mouse over the path, hold down the left key and drag:
You can add one or more blur paths. To do this, you need to move the cursor to any free space in the document, the cursor will change to a “pin”, then hold down the left key and drag the cursor:
The Blur panel has a Speed option. It determines the degree of blur in a given direction. It is important to keep in mind that this global parameter, i.e. it acts on all available paths:
When the Centered Blur option is enabled, the blur occurs relative to the center of the arrow, and the image pixels in the center remain in place. When the option is disabled, the blur is counted from the beginning of the arrow, and the pixels are shifted in the direction of the arrow.
Working with endpoints
As mentioned above, the Speed setting is global. Therefore, in order to control the amount of blur, you should adjust the values of the "Speed" endpoints. Let's look at how to do this. First, make sure that the Edit Blur Shapes option is enabled. Then click on the end point of the path to select that point, after which you will notice how two red arrows appear at the ends of the path. They have their own endpoints. To change the End Point Speed value, drag the arrow point in the document, drag the End Point Speed slider, or enter values manually:
To further change the shape of the blur at the end of the path, you can drag the center point on the red arrow. Keep in mind that you cannot add intermediate points, as on the main path:
Working with Multiple Paths
You can add as many paths as you like to any image you have. Basically, additional paths are added in order to obtain blur with in different directions, or to limit or remove the blur effect for certain areas of the image.
To add a new path, place the cursor where you want the path to start, left-click, move the cursor in the desired direction, click to create an intermediate anchor point, repeat the action of creating intermediate points as many times as necessary. To finish creating the path, click where you want the end of the path to be, wait 2 seconds with the key released until the dot symbol appears at the end of the line, and click again. Instead, you can simply press Esc to complete the path:
After creating the paths, you can configure the "Speed" on the endpoints. In this image, the value of "Speed on the left endpoints is zero, and on the right is about two hundred:
Tip: For ease of use, use hotkeys. Press and hold the H key to temporarily hide track paths. Release the button to display them again. Press the P key to toggle filter action preview on/off.
Motion effect with strobe flashes
Photoshop CC has another interesting motion blur option - a flash effect, something like shooting in the dark with a strobe on. The effect control is located on another panel.
The Strobe Strength parameter determines the strength of the virtual flash and controls the balance between light environment and virtual flash light.
The Strobe Flashes option determines the number of flashes per exposure.
If "Flash Intensity" is set to 0%, the image will show continuous blur, i.e. The strobe effect will not be displayed. If it is set to 100%, the flash effect becomes clear, without blurring. A value between 0 and 100 gives the effect of blurry flashes:
We looked at some theoretical aspects of creating a motion effect in Photoshop CC. How to put this into practice and create the effect of a moving car is described.
The blur effect, which creates a feeling of high speed, is often used today in photo processing and in the creation of videos and films.
In reality, motion blur occurs when the shutter speed on your camera is slow enough to capture the movement of your subject in the frame.
In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to artificially create a motion blur effect. You can try to capture a moving subject while you're shooting, resulting in a beautifully blurred stream of color and light.
The main difficulty is achieving a balance between blur and the visibility of object details. You can only get good results through trial and error. But, unfortunately, there is not always time for this trial and error.
Blur effect in the photo
The blur resulting from using long shutter speeds doesn't always capture the motion effect we want. In such cases, photo editors come to the rescue. In this tutorial we will work in Photoshop Elements.
We'll show you how to make the blur match the perspective of the object (in this case, the train), that is, the direction of the blur will coincide with the direction of the train lines.
Then you'll learn how to work with a layer mask and selectively reduce the effect in certain areas of the image to reveal the details of the subject.
We will also demonstrate how to properly work with a layer mask, which will help you compose additional objects in the frame, with which you can make the foreground and background more interesting.
How to Create a Motion Blur Effect
1. Open the original image
To get started, download our Master motion blur source files. Open the blur_before01.jpg document. In the Layers panel, double-click the background layer thumbnail to unlock it. From the toolbar, select Magic Wand tool(Magic Wand) and set the value Tolerance(Tolerance) 20. Check the box next to Contiguous(Adjacent pixels). Click on the image to highlight the white sky.
2. Smooth the edges
The edges don't look quite straight, we need to smooth them out a little. Choose Select>Inverse(Select>Inverse). Click on the button Refine Edge(Refine Edge), which is in the Tool Options bar. Set the View to On Black. Place a checkmark next to the parameter Smart Radius(Smart Radius) and set the radius to 2.9 pixels, and Feather(Shading) 1.7. In the Output to column, select ‘New layer with layer mask’. Click Ok.
3. Adjusting the mask
In the toolbar, select a tool Brush(Brush), in the tool options panel, open the list of brush presets and select the hard round brush. Set the size to 35. Set the background color to white. Click on the layer mask. Use a white brush to restore missing details and a black brush to hide unwanted areas, such as the lantern in the background.
- Advice: In Photoshop, in order not to clutter the menu, some tools are hidden under the icons of other tools; in order to see and activate them, you need to right-click on the tool icon.
4. Add an image of the sky
In the list of source files, select the document blur_before01.jpg and open it in the program. Select Select>All(Select>All) and then Edit>Copy(Edit>Copy). Go to the main image tab and click Edit>Paste(Edit>Paste). The sky will appear in the Layers panel as Layer 1. Drag this layer to a position above the train layer. Use the tool Move(Move) to place dramatic clouds directly above the train.
5. Apply a filter
Click on the top layer with the mask (Layer 0 copy). Press Ctrl/Cmd+J to duplicate it. Rename the layer to 'Blur layer'. Go to the tab Filter>Blur>Radial Blur. Set the blur method to Zoom and quality to Best. Move the center of the blur so that the blur lines match the angle of the train lines.
6. Increase speed
In the previous step, to add blur, we set the Amount to 10. To give the feeling of even greater speed, duplicate this effect by holding down the Ctrl/Cmd+F keys. Now the train has become so blurry that it is difficult for us to distinguish details. The ground, as you can see, is also blurred. We need to change the layer mask.
7. Reduce blur
Reduce Opacity(Opacity) of the layer to 94% to bring out a little more detail from the layer below. Arm yourself with a tool Brush(Brush). Select a soft round brush from the brush presets menu. Set the brush size to 600 pixels and Opacity to 25%. Click on the layer mask. Reduce the blur in the area where the driver is and the engine number area by painting over these parts with a brush.
8. Drawing in the details
Restore the brush's opacity to 100% and reduce its size to 300 pixels. Use a black brush to paint over the layer mask on the areas that you don't want to blur, namely the platform and the fence in the background. You can change the layer mask at any time and make some details more clear or, conversely, blurry.
9. Letting off steam
Open the blur_before05.jpg file. Select a tool Lasso(Lasso). Set the Feather value to 45 pixels. Draw a smooth selection around the column of smoke. Select Enhance>Auto Contrast(Enhance>Auto Contrast) and then Edit>Copy(Edit>Copy). Let's go to File>New>Blank File(File>New>New Empty File). Click on Ok and then go to the tab Edit and choose Paste(Insert).
10. Invert layers
Click on the white background layer and press Ctrl/Cmd+I to invert it to black. Then select the steam layer and press Ctrl/Cmd+I to invert the layer to white. Thus, we will get an image of white steam on a black background. Use an eraser to remove pipe marks. Then go to Layer>Flatten Image.
11. Insert and position
Select Enhance>Adjust Color>Remove Color(Enhance>Color Settings>Desaturate) and then Enhance>Auto Contrast. The next step is to go to Select>All to make a selection and then Edit>Copy to copy the selection. Go to the file we were working with before and click Edit>Paste(Edit>Paste). Change the blending mode of the steam layer to Screen to get rid of the black color. Use the tool Move(Move) to position the smoke in the desired location.
12. Scaling
Press Ctrl/Cmd+J to duplicate the steam layer. Then use the combination Ctrl/Cmd+T to activate the tool Free Transform(Free Transformation). In the tool settings, set the value for Angle(Angle) equal to -180. Uncheck the box next to Constrain Proportions. For W set the value to 200%, and for H to 150%. Inside the frame, drag the steam image as shown in the photo. Reduce the layer opacity to 85%.
13. Open the image with luggage
Open the blur_before03.jpg file. Use the tool Rectangular Marquee Tool(Rectangular area) to highlight the luggage section. Select Edit>Copy. Go to our project tab and click Edit>Paste. Go to Image>Rotate>Flip Layer Horizontal(Image>Orientation>Flip Horizontal).
14. Making an even selection
To make a smooth selection and separate the luggage from the previous background, select the Quick Selection tool. Set the size to 50. Click on the New selection icon. We run the tool over the luggage to make an even selection. Click on the icon Subtract from selection(Subtract from Selection) To remove an unnecessary selection area, in Photoshop you need to hold down the key Alt.
15. Smooth the edges
Select Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection(Layer>Layer Mask>Show Selection). The layer mask will hide most of the background, but the jagged edges will still remain. Click on the layer mask. Take the tool Brush(Brush). Using a black brush on the layer mask, paint over all areas where the background on which the luggage was previously visible is visible, and, on the contrary, use a white brush to restore the missing parts of the luggage.
16. Adjusting tones
Now the luggage looks a little overexposed in the overall picture. Click on the luggage layer thumbnail (not the layer mask). Go to Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Levels(Enhancement>Light Correction>Levels). Drag the black level slider to 27 to make the luggage shadow darker. Click Ok.
17. Add shadows
Use the tool Move Tool to place luggage on the platform. To add shadows create a new layer: Layer>New>Layer. Move a new layer under the luggage layer and change its Blending Mode to Overlay. Arm yourself with a tool Brush. Set the background color to black and select a soft round brush. Draw the shadow of the luggage on the platform.
18. Finishing touches
Open the blur_before04.jpg file. Using the selection technique we used with the luggage, move the flowers from the open document into our picture. Scale them to 40%, duplicate the layer and place more colors in the right corner. Use the tool Free Transform to change their position.
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