So I will go with five by seven, because that's a pretty normal standard size, and you can get them for really inexpensive. So once you're done with that, then you can go into file and maybe you want to do a I don't know, a postcard an invitation. Um, animals I was trying to do one for with my dog, and it just didn't look right, so it didn't bother doing that.
There's all kinds of foods in here, and you're gonna you know, you never know. Yeah, good thinking, cause I love it whenever you stumble upon something, like, probably draw our own little border scanning in or whatever and bring it on in if we know the proper extension. I know there is one, but I all the top of my head. Although didn't is the ship if you had it in the correct file format? Exactly. You could do pat, you know, patterns and brushes and shapes and draw something. Okay, cause I'm not sure I've never loaded him, but I know you can. Oh, what is that file name? I don't know. You can get shapes off the internet and then file name. Can you add shapes? Can you load shape? Yes. And there's a nice little border for you. Go ahead and take this one on a click and drag around this area here. Um, and you can also buy overlays and things like that to use as well. But they are really good to use as funky borders. But what's interesting is some of these crops shaped tools, and you wouldn't think about it. And again, you can make these larger gonna go ahead with large and you can scroll through all of the different various shapes. Also, my kind of stumbled illness is some of let's go down to all elements. You just click on commits, and now you have a nice little border. You can click and drag around the area and move it appropriate position. So let's just say you wanted to do a plane heart shape. So if you have a hard time finding that look under the crop tool and it's right next to the crop tool and you have different shapes that you can use. Somewhere around there they change where you can find that cookie cutter tool. So I'm gonna go into this photo here and down here, where the crop tool is its hidden. You can create kind of funky borders, throw in a little bit of text and use the cookie cutter tool for that. And, like, for instance, this right here you can make your own cards. Let's go ahead in talk about some of the ones I use on a daily the cookie cutter tool sometimes forget about, but it can be really nice for different borders. You can continue to paint any section you want blurred.All right. You can see in the image above that the original unblurred layer is still available. When you paint white on the mask the areas you paint will become blurred because the blurred layer is revealed. Make sure the brush tool has a soft edge (consider setting the hardness to 0%) and use white as the foreground color. The next step is to use a brush tool to paint the areas that you want to be blurred. You will no longer see the blurred layer.
Make sure to hold OPTION on Mac or ALT on Windows while clicking the button to conceal the entire layer behind the mask. Next, apply a Gaussian Blur just like before ( Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.) with your desired radius.Īdd a layer mask to the duplicated layer by clicking the "Add vector mask" button. This method will also keep the unblurred version on a separate layer so it will be easy to revert if necessary.įirst, duplicate the layer by right clicking on the layer and selecting "Duplicate layer.". If you want to make a soft transition between the sections, use this advanced method. In the easy method above, there is a hard line between the blurred section and the unblurred section.
You're done! How to blur faces in Photoshop (advanced method) Next, apply a Gaussian Blur just like before ( Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.). In the following example, the face is selected using the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
You can also use this method to blur text, logos, backgrounds, and anything else you want to blur.įirst, use the selection tools to select the area you want to blur. If you want to blur a face in Photoshop, here is an easy way to do it. You're done! How to blur faces in Photoshop (easy method) If you want to blur the entire image choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.Īdjust the radius to add more or less blur to the image. The first step is to open the image you want to modify in Photoshop CC. We'll be making use of the Gaussian blur effect. This tutorial will show you how to blur faces, backgrounds, text, and more using Photoshop CC.