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Honestly, I think we are close. But, very often when you create an image like this, you want to really separate the foreground and background elements. So what that means is often editing more background. So what am I going to do is, I am going to motion blur this a little bit more. So I'm going to copy my background layer so that I'm not working on the original layer, and from the filter menu choose blur>motion blur. And you can see that it's using the last settings that were used when I last used motion blur, and that of course was to create the flower motion blur. But I really want to create a motion blur in the other direction. I want to create it in this direction. And another problem I see is that of course it's not affecting my layer patch, because the layer patch is on a different layer. So I need to do is cancel that. I'm going to drag my layer patch below these things, and I can see that it is taking on some strange color cast. So I'm going to leave it where it was. And I'm going to put all of these things in their own layer set. And I'm going to put them in the same order that I originally found them. So I might need to reposition some things. Notice what happens when I drag an item into the layer set - just puts it at the bottom. So I need to reposition my layers so that they were the same way when I drag them into the layer set folder. Well, that looks pretty good. So in an effort to manage my documents well and make sure that I can always get back to where I started, I'm going to copy this layer set after I rename it. So that I can always get back to an unedited collection of my layers. So with that layer set selected, I'm going to go up to the layers palette menu and choose duplicate layer set. Merge layer set of course will collapse it all onto one new layer. And now I don't need this, I don't need to see the background layer set, because I have its one layer version. And now of course I can go and choose the blur tool. And I want to blur in an opposite axis that my flower is blurred, so it creates a more contrasty type of effect. And I don't want to blur too much. Could try to keep it subtle, and I'm choosing command + plus to zoom into my image in the background to see how that looks. I'm going to look at the hills here, and that should do it. So that's the motion blur applied, and I'll undo that. And you can see how it just gets a little bit sharper. Something I like it just a little bit softer like that.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |