Adding Blur Motion in PSE

What if your camera is a simple point and shoot, and you can’t get those neat panning shots?

You can get that same look with a nonblurry photo in PSE (and PE) easily!

First, let’s look at a neat variation of a blur with a radial blur–this is an effect you can get in camera IF you’ve got a DSLR with a lens you can manually move.

Here’s the original photograph:

It was taken from a moving car, so the background isn’t blurred. There’s little sense of movement.

With this blur effect, the central object is obviously focused on with the blur moving inward.

And here is an example of a panning-style blur using the motion blur option in the Filter menu.

In this screen shot you can see the window that pops up for the Motion Blur effect. You can change the angle of the blur and the length of the blur, too. The top layer copy of the photo shows how much of the subject (the boy on the bicycle) is blurred out. Now, we want to see him, not just the blur!

This is better! There’s so much motion in the photo now! It looks like he’s going 90 MPH, but so what? He’s moving now!

Tres cool, eh? Try this and let me know how it works for you!