PC World - USA (2020-10)

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HERE’S HOW HOW TO USE PHOTOSHOP’S BLUR GALLERY

blur will affect the entire selected area unless

you use the Pins to select specific sections.

Choose Filter > Blur Gallery > Path Blur (or

any of the other four Blur options) to open the

Blur Gallery panel, which displays all five of

the Gallery Blurs mentioned above, plus three

Effects tabs that provide options for Bokeh,

Motion, and Noise. Each Gallery Blur and

each of the three Effects offer different

adjustment tools to fine-tune the special

effects on your images.

With the on-screen controls, you can see

what the effects are doing to your image as

they happen. For example, the main control is

a circle with a dot inside called a Pin (the

cursor looks like a pin). Click different areas on

the image to create multiple Pins, which are

potential blur areas. Click the dark line inside

the circle and drag it around the circle to

increase or decrease the blur effect. You can

also use the slider bar for this same function.

Use the Field Blur to soften the graduated levels of

color in the blurred background.

FIELD BLUR

Use Field Blur effect to illustrate a graduated

blur effect (similar to a gradient, but using only

the colors in the selected area).

Using the blur features in the Blur Gallery.