Radial Blur Tutorial

I want to see how a tutorial does in here. This is a very simple thing that I had never used before and the applications are limitless.

Find a tube or picture you like. Click on it once you get it in psp and shift d to make a copy and close out your original.

Click on new raster and send it to the bottom in your layers palette or pull it down there with your cursor.

Right click on your picture or tube in your layers palette and duplicate.

Close off the eye of your top picture and highlight the layer in the middle.

Here you can use the size of the tube as it is if that is what you used(a tube). I resized my tube to make it cover more of the empty space. Or you can take your tube and copy, select all on a new empty raster and paste into your raster layer which will make it bigger. It is all just preference.

Pick a color out of your tube or picture and fill your bottom layer with that solid color.

Highlight your middle picture now or merge middle and bottom together.

Go to Adjust, Blur, Radial Blur and use these settings. Twirl, 47, 28, Eleptical checked, 5, -6, 0. It's fun to play with these settings. I have used the background like this or you can make it a seamless tile under your image. It looks different either way.

After I did the radial blur I used hard light on this layer and reduced the opacity a little. I ended up liking the one that wasn't seamless. I thought making it seamless made it look a little busy.

This is what your layers palette will look like to the right.

Your picture, under that your radial blur and under that your background.

You can right click and merge down your middle picture onto your solid backgound then do the radial blur, which is what I did. It makes it more swirly. lol

This is my final picture with a frame which I added an inner bevel too and my watermark.

I really like this feature of adding your pics as you go from your computer and not having to have to upload them to another source first. Very nice.

Here is one I did with another tube.