Monday, May 28, 2007

How to Add Motion to a Photo

By: Richard Dean
http://www.procoversdeluxe.com


Do you want to know how to create a photo containing a high speeding car using Motion Blur of Adobe Photoshop? If you do, read on!

This article about Photoshop will inform you on the steps in which you can make a real fast effect motion. Through this, you can make a normal looking car that is parked turn into a race car that you always dreamed of. This article will teach you how to make a realistic motion blur.
You will also learn how to do a radial blur together with the smoke billowing out from those fast wheels.

1. How to make a blur motion by using Photoshop

Grab an image of a car that you like. To make the process simple, maintain your settings the same with this instructional article. Keep the size of the car to one thousand pixels in width. Also, try to increase the saturation for added effect. Make a duplicate of the background and save it as “motion”. A selection will now be created which will be utilized in this instructional article.

Using the tool polygonal lasso set in radius one or zero, choose the whole car with its wheels and mark it. Click “Select” then click “Save Selection” and filename it as “car”. The next step is to de-select your choice.

From the layer motion, move to “Filter”, then to “Blur” then to “Motion Blur”. Its angle set as zero and two hundred fifty pixels.

To make a mask layer on the layer motion, input the “car” by clicking “Select”, then press “Load Selection”. Put the color black to the selection to make the car appear. You can also use a little brush to get back on details that you may have passed. You can also paint
into blurs where there are reflections on the car.

2. Smoking and Spinning

For our race car to be believable, its wheels should turn as fast as it runs. To do that, we will use Photoshop spin. The initial thing to do is make a copy of the car we can work on. Move the rectangular shaped tool to select the whole wheel. Then move to “Edit”, then click Copy Merged, then make a new figure and paste the choices to it.

Then click “Filter”, then press “Blur”, then click “Radial Blur" set at fifty, spin and highest quality.

Copy-paste the figure to the primary car figure on a new layer. Also lessen the opacity to line up the figures with each other. Perform the process again to the other image and combine them. Next, put on a mask layer and mix the figures with each other.

3. Putting on Smoke and Final Processes

To make your race car complete, we need to make your tires smoke. First, put on a layer above. Then, add black to it and put the blend setting to light pin. Maintaining your background and foreground in black and white, move to “Filter”, then click “Render”, then press
“Clouds”. Do this up to the point that you view interesting billows of smoke coming out of the speeding wheels.

Now put on a mask layer to take out too much smoke. After selecting the layers of smoke, press “Filter”, then click “Blur”, then click “Motion Blur” with a length of twenty pixels.

Lastly we will adjust the figure to something like that of a car commercial. Choose a motion layer. Load the choice of car that was saved at the beginning with the reverse checked for our background choices. Put on Photoshop Hue and Saturation layer and examine the color box. Drag the sliders until there is a good color mixture between the background and car. Now you have just turned a normal looking parked car into a hot high speeding car.




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