Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you a quick tip on how to effectively create extreme speed from a stationary
object for versions CC 2014 and later.
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I provided this photo of stationary bullet train.
Its link is in in my video's description or project files.
The first step is to place the front of the train onto its own layer.
For your convenience, I already created its shape for you.
To access it, open your Channels panel.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the channel to make a selection of its shape.
Open back the Layers panel and press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut and copy the shape within
the selection onto its own layer.
Temporarily hide the layer.
Make the train photo active.
We’ll make a copy of it, so we always have the original photo intact.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J. Before we apply the speed blur effect to the photo, we’ll fill
in the nose of the train with the background because we don’t want the effect to blur
the nose of the train.
To do this, open your Lasso Tool and carefully draw closely around the nose of the train.
Press Shift and the F5 key at the top of your keyboard to open the Fill window.
Choose “Content Aware” and click OK.
We just want it to roughly fill in the tip of the train.
Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
We'll convert the retouched train photo into a Smart Object, so we have the ability to
modify the speed blur at any time.
Click the icon at the upper, right corner and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Filter, Blur Gallery and Path Blur.
This was first made available in CC 2014.
If you don't see blue or red and blue paths, press Ctrl or Cmd + H.
Basically, the Path Blur tool creates motion blurs along paths.
By unchecking "Edit Blur Shapes", the red arrow lines will disappear.
I find that repositioning the path blur lines is easier when the "Edit Blur Shapes" is unchecked.
Go to the left end of the line and press and hold Ctrl or Cmd as you drag it past the left
edge of the document.
Drag the right point of the line to approximately here making sure that the angle of the line
is following the perspective of the photo.
We'll add another path blur by placing your tool to the left of the image and dragging
it along the photo's perspective.
Double-click it to end the path blur line.
Continue to do this until you have approximately this amount of path blur lines.
Now that we have them in place, uncheck "Centered Blur", which will make our motion blur more directional.
We'll leave "Taper" at 0%, since we don't want our motion blur to trail off gradually.
Check, "Edit Blur Shapes".
This immediately adds the red arrow lines, which will allow us to adjust the speed and
shapes of the beginning and end points.
We'll drag the left, red arrow to approximately here, which will increase our end point speed.
We'll drag the right, red arrow down as well, which will also increase the end point speed on this end.
Click the end point to enable "Edit Blur Shapes".
Drag the arrow to the right to approximately here to increase the end point speed about this much.
Drag the right, red arrow in to decrease the end point speed.
We're it because we don't want the background behind the nose of the train to look as fast
as the speed of the back of the train.
Continue these steps as we adjust the end point speeds for the beginning and end of the path blurs.
Because the motion blurs obliterated the natural grain of the photo, we'll add it back in by
opening the "Noise" window and dragging the grain amount slider to the right a bit.
I'll keep the rest of the noise settings at their default amounts.
Then, click OK at the top.
Lastly, we'll make the front of the train appear as if our camera panned along with it,
snapping the photo at the precise moment it passed the camera's lens.
Make the cut-out visible and active.
If you see a little bit of the train's motion blur under it, press "v" to open your Move Tool
and drag the cut-out until we hide the blur under it.
Lastly, we'll blend together the entire train.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to the cut-out.
Open your Brush Tool and Brush Picker.
Pick a soft, round brush.
For this image, make its size 800 pixels, the Hardness: 0% and the Opacity and Flow, both 100%.
Place your cursor approximately near the back end of the cut-out and click once.
Reduce the brush's opacity to 50% and reduce its size to 600 pixels.
Place your cursor a bit to the right of where you clicked before and click once.
Now that we have a finished image, a lot of people have asked me, "How do save it?"
There's a couple of ways of doing this.
One way is to open the list at the top, right of the Layers panel and click "Flatten Image".
Then, go to File, "Save As" and save it as a jpg.
However, I only do that after I save my entire document as a Photoshop PSD file.
Another way is to make a new layer above the top-most active layer
and press Alt + Ctrl + Shift + E on Windows or Option + Cmd + Shift + E on a Mac
to make a composite snapshot Then, save your image the same way as before.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!