Radial Blur Tutorial

This is a very simple and fun adjustment 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.  You make a copy because every time you use a jpg it becomes degraded. 

Click on new raster and put your cursor on it and drag it to the bottom in your layers palette.

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.(Clicking on a layer highlights it so that is the layer you will be working on in your workspace)

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. I did this by Image-resize-and made it a percentage bigger.  Remember if you are wanting to just resize this layer to untick resize all layers. 

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 (by clicking on your materials palette and using your dropper to move over the picture and find a color you like) and fill your bottom layer with that solid color.

Highlight your middle picture now, right click on the middle layer and merge down, 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.
But I was making this as an avatar and not a background so the need wasn't there to make it seamless.  To change to hard light or a different blend look below at the layers palette on the right.  Your blend mode is right above your top layer.  It is a drop down box, along with an opacity slide to make that layer that is highlighted any opacity you want.

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This is what your layers palette will look like above.

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 above with a frame which I added an inner bevel too (effects-3D-inner bevel)and my watermark.

Here is one I did with another tube.

This lesson is copyrighted to the tut writer, it would be nice if you want to use it to ask permission, just a thought.