Here is a fast tip on how to isolate a specific area on an image and blur it. Using the elliptical marquee tool, select the area you desire to blur. A good example would probably be an individual’s face in a crowd shot, if you do not want to reveal their identity. Next go to the drop down menu, filter, blur, gaussian blur. Select the intensity level in which you want to blur the object or person. It’s that easy! Get creative with it!
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These simple steps will explain how to mask out an image to take upon the shape of text.
Step1. Open the image of your choice and then duplicate the layer. Next, type the word you want across the image as shown below.
Step2. Move cursor over the layer with the type icon in the layer box. Hold control or open apple and then click. You should now have the marching ants around the text.
Step3. Turn off the original image layer and the text layer. Select the duplicate image layer in the layers box as shown below. Finally click on the add layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers box to clip out the image.
Hope this helps!
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Removing red eye from a photo.
If you are not already farmilar with this, here we go!
1. Open the image.
2. Go to Image – Duplicate.
3. In Photoshop 6 or earlier, go to View – New View. In Photoshop 7 go to Window – Documents – New Window. This will open a duplicate window of the same image.
4. Zoom one of the windows so that you can see the eyes as large as possible. Set the other window view to 100%.
5. Arrange the two windows so you can see both the zoomed view and the 100% view at the same time.
6. Create a new layer.
7. Use the eyedropper to pick up a color from the iris of the eye. It should be a fairly gray tint with a small portion of the eye color.
8. Paint over the red part of the eye on the new layer, being careful not to paint over the eyelids.
9. Go to Filters – Blur – Gaussian and give it about a 1 pixel blur to soften the edges.
10. Set the layer blend mode to Saturation. This will take the red out without removing the highlights, but in many cases it leaves the eyes too gray and hollow looking.
*Below is where the drop-down menu is located to get to the saturation. It is on the layers tab.
11. If that’s the case, duplicate the saturation layer and change the blend mode to Hue. That should put some color back in while still preserving the highlights.
12. If the color is too strong after adding a Hue layer, lower the opacity of the Hue layer.
13. When you’re happy with the results you can merge the extra layers down.
This should only take you about 5 minutes. If anyone know of a super duper faster way to do this, please comment.
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Marvin Eans 