Photoshop has features and tools that allow you to do very practical and useful things. Knowing how to blur image backgrounds without affecting the image in Photoshop can be a very practical and ...

A photo with a busy background can be distracting and divert attention away from your subject. If you have no control over the background during your shoot, you can still make alterations using an ...

Photoshop Blur filters are designed primarily for retouching images—to soften, haze, cloud, fuzz, or distort specific areas of a picture or the entire image. Backgrounds are often blurred out to ...

Photoshop's Motion Blur can be used to add some speed to a moving vehicle. Here we use the Gradient tool on a layer mask to recreate a Cokin Speed filter effect.

Photoshop's Lens Blur tool mimics natural focal falloff from wide-aperture lenses for realistic depth-of-field effects. Use ...