OCTOBER 2020 PCWorld 113hooks, and loops. If you click the pin dot first
(a smaller dot appears inside the pin dot),
then you can drag a straight line in any
direction. You can also use the pin tack cursor
to add more pin dots to the image, which
creates multiple blur paths.
For our example, we moved the line of pin
dots down to the side of the train, then
stretched it out from the engine to the
caboose, following the
line of the tracks to
simulate a fast-moving
train soaring down the
tracks at high speed.
We set the Basic Blur
Speed to 50 percent,
the Taper to 0, checked
the Centered Blur box,
and chose an End Point
Speed of 200 pixels.
This provided an
illusion of a speeding
train, which is the effect
we wanted.
NOTE: If the Basic
“Path” Blur doesn’t
provide the effect you
seek, try the Rear Sync
Flash Blur, which
emulates that flash
effect that fires at the
end of an exposure.SPIN BLUR
The Spin Blur is, basically, the same as the
Radial Blur, except the Blur Angle is measured
in degrees from 0 to 360. When you choose
Filter > Blur Gallery > Spin Blur, a circle
appears in the middle of your image with tiny
dots at north, south, east, and west; and
pinpoints appear just inside the circle at the
same locations.
Use the dots to reshape and rotate thePath Blur create a blurred path of motion.