A blurred image may be a mistake and disappointment when you view important pictures, but sometimes it's an intentional effect you want to add in. With Photoshop, you have complete control over the ...

Background blur, often called “bokeh” after the Japanese word for blur, is generally associated with high-end cameras with wide-aperture lenses. The effect is popular for portraits, and is emulated — ...

To add extra visual interest to a photo, try using a blur filter to simulate motion. Even though your subject is stationary in the picture, the viewer’s brain will experience the movement, which adds ...

Photoshop has features and tools that allow you to do very practical and useful things. Knowing how to blur image backgrounds without affecting the image in Photoshop can be a very practical and ...

Photoshop's Motion Blur can be used to add some speed to a moving vehicle. Here we use the Gradient tool on a layer mask to recreate a Cokin Speed filter effect.

Choose Filter>Blur>Lens Blur... form the menus. This opens a rather large dialog box to work in. First thing, make sure you have the button at the top labeled "Faster" selected. More Accurate is just ...

What Can the Lens Blur Tool Really Do? My bare-bones kitbag only contains a 50mm 1.8 STM Canon lens and a 10-18mm Zoom lens. Photoshop's Lens Blur feature, now part of the Camera ...