Shape Blur

[Skullman3518]

Hi all-

I was just looking at some photo galleries online and found some really cool ones that the photographer said he used CS3's "Shape blur" to create. It creates anice blur around the subject that you want to highlight. Do we have anything similar in Elements 6?

Thanks,
Greg

[ladybug]

If the picture below is like what you want. Use copy your flower( i used the magnetic lasso tool) and did a ctrl j to copy flower to its own layer.
then i duplicated the background layer ,went to Filter-blur-gausaun blur. There are different types of blur and you can choose how much blur you want.
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[TonyW]

Elements doesn't have a shape blur (which supposedly gives a less uniform blur than a gaussian blur) although I must admit I'm hard pressed to tell the difference - and at low and high radius blurs it's virtually identical
Tony

[Skullman3518]

Thanks for the replies, guys. This is the effect I am after. He said he uses "Shape blur" in Photoshop CS3 and I can't get anything like this in Elements 6. Any ideas?

Thanks...

http://myerphotography.com/resources/Taylor-blur-4590.jpg

[Wendy]

Hi ..

My guess is that he selected the girl and copied her to her own layer ... then he used shape blur on the background image. So the background become blurred but the girl stays sharp.

I tried it out in CS3 and that the only way I could achieve that effect :)

Wendy

[TonyW]

Wendy: That's interesting. I assume you converted the selection to a custom shape and used that as the shape for blurring. I'll have to try that. Would have thought there ought to be a work-around in Elements to give a similar effect but haven't thought of one yet :)
Tony

[ladybug]

I think this is kinda close. I extracted the person. duplicated the background. Extracted the person to her on layer and dplicated. did a gausaun blur on the background copy. and pulled on the corners to increase the size of the person copy and did a motion blur and droped the opacity.
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[Myerphotography.com]

Hi Guys,

I just found this thread. I am the Myerphotography.com that took this picture and put the shape blur on it. I did it in Photoshop CS2 and this is how I did it.

I traced around Taylor with the magnetic lasso tool. Then I clicked Select>Inverse. Then I clicked on Filter>Blur>Shape Blur. I then selected the round shape and set the radius at 25.

I think this might be easier than what some have guessed that I did.

I also did it to this image.

http://www.myerphotography.com/resources/T-Mo-Blur-4808-A.jpg

I don't have Elements so I am not sure if it can be done in Elements.

Thanks.

Mike Myer