Blur Frame - Photoshop Tutorial

[Jmax]

Blur Frame Photoshop Tutorial

Easy way to create a great looking blur frame for your picture.

1. Open your photo.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/start.jpg

2. Select the Rectangluar Marquee Tool and make a selection similar to the one I did below:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/step2.jpg

3. Hit Ctrl+Shift+I (this wil inverse the selection) and then go to Filter>>Blur>>Gaussian Blur and use this settings(of course, you can change the radius if you want):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/step3.jpg

4. Now hit Ctrl+Shift+I (this will return you to your previous selection). Then hit Ctrl+J (this will create a new layer. Now, with the new created layer selected, go to Layer>>Layer Style and apply Stroke and Drop Shadow with this settings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/step4-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/step4-2.jpg

5. And you’re done. Here is what I got(of course, you can choose not to apply the stroke or the drop shadow and you’ll still get a great frame):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/final.jpg

Ok to add txt to your image follow this guide

1. Select the txt icon circled below

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/font1.jpg

2. Select the font, colour and size you require, as below

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/font2.jpg

3. Move the txt into place and that’s you finished

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/jmax1984/blured%20frame%20tut/final-txt.jpg


Hope this helps everyone

[Gaz W]

I Still Want To Know How To Put Business Names At Bottom Of Pics! :(

[Jmax]

lol, now added

[DarrylB]

I Still Want To Know How To Put Business Names At Bottom Of Pics! :(


Good point, always wondered how thats done.

Nice tutorial!

I have also used this place in the past for help with PS pics

http://www.digimods.co.uk/tutorials/tutorials.htm

check the list on the left of the page

[Gaz W]

lol ok ill add it in later

:D :D :D

[parish]

All these posts about Photoshoppery has inspired me to start playing around with The GIMP so, combining the technique in this thread and bigsyd's thread (http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/showthread.php?t=19140) I've come up with this.

Just used the technique in the other thread but applied Gaussian blur - perhaps a little too much? - instead of desaturation.

846

This is the original

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[Brazo]

Top post mate, thanks :thumb:

[scoobyc]

thanks for the post, might manage a play around with this later!

[Jmax]

no worrys guys, a few more tutorials to come

[parish]

no worrys guys, a few more tutorials to come
:thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

Top man. Look forward to them. Thanks

[Slick 77]

thanks for the info, was trying to do this the other day but couldnt work it out! looking forward to the other tutorials, cheers :)

[bigsyd]

cheers m8 ,had a bit of a go :thumb:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4301/vauxhalltigra20051024x7hi4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[isherdholi]

All these posts about Photoshoppery has inspired me to start playing around with The GIMP so, combining the technique in this thread and bigsyd's thread (http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/showthread.php?t=19140) I've come up with this.

Just used the technique in the other thread but applied Gaussian blur - perhaps a little too much? - instead of desaturation.

846

This is the original

847

You've missed a bit off the nearside front tyre.

[Silva1]

business prints you mean watermarks .??
what i would do is resize the photo and say it is 800x600 px
then open a new window transparent 800x600 px of course
type your text or add your pictures
i think you then go into edit>save pattern and name it watermark or anything
so then you have it saved ready to use everytime you edit any pictures on ps

[parish]

You've missed a bit off the nearside front tyre.
Where? :confused:

[TPR1966]

Many thanks Jmax this is a great tutorial and something easy for me to follow :thumb:

[Jmax]

no probs man, theres a few more tutorials ive done on here that are just as easy to follow if you look for them

[TPR1966]

I'll take a look mate :thumb:

Cheers :wave:

[gatecrasher3]

Love the blur frame. Is there any way of recording it as an action so it always blurs the same percentage of the image regardless of it's size (hope that makes sense)!?

[Ojai]

great help. thanks

[silver bmw z3]

Rather than make the selection manually you can use the selection tools to select all, then shrink the selection (from memory I'm writing this) to be an even size all the way round, may then have to select inverse but basically you ensure an even sized border without relying on eye/hand.