How to Add a Blur Affect to an Image in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Add a Blur Affect to an Image in Adobe Photoshop CS4

The blur affect in Adobe Photoshop CS4 is just another means by which to spruce up or add something different your project. There are a variety of blurs you can add. Once you learn how to add one you can use the same method to add all of them. In this tutorial we are going to load an existing image and apply a gausian blur affect to it. Here is how you add a blur affect to an image in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Adobe Photoshop CS4
Any kind of image file

Step 1

Launch Adobe Photoshop CS4 and open an existing image to work with. Make sure you make a copy of it in the event you save your work by accident and are unable to undo the affects you have applied.
Step 2

Unlock the image file layer by double clicking on its thumbnail in the layers panel and selecting ok on the window that appears.
Step 3

With your image layer selected, click from the main menu at the top "Filter" then on the submenu select "Blur" and on the third menu that appears you can choose any type of blur affect, however for this tutorial I am using "gaussian Blur".
Step 4

Finally set the amount of blur you want to see in your photo by increasing or decreasing the radius. For my example I chose 6.1 which creates what you see in my image.