Learn to Create Effect of Rapid Movement on Photoshop (Part 1)

In Part 1 (of two) of this tutorial learn how you can create the effect of object rapid movement using as an example a fast moving car.

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Learn to Create Effect of Rapid Movement on Photoshop

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Step 1

Start by opening photo on Photoshop. Duplicate layer with Ctrl+J. With Polygonal Lasso Tool selected cut out the car from the copied layer.

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Step 2

When you have car selected go to Select > Inverse and press Del. If you turn off the visibility of the layer with photo you should have something like this:

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Step 3

Turn back on visibility of background layer. We’ll work with the background layer. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:

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Step 4

Select car layer and duplicate it with Ctrl+J. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur for the copied layer:

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Select the Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush and erase the blurred layer in the hood area.

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Merge layers with car by selecting both layers and pressing Ctrl+E.

Step 5

Now select the wheel rim area with the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

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Copy selection to a new layer by pressing Ctrl+J.

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Go to Edit > Transformer > Scale to scale the wheel rim to get something similar to my screenshot below.

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Go to Edit > Transformer > Warp.

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Still with wheel rim selected go to Select > Load Selection. After that apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with following settings:

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Move wheel rim back to his place and apply Edit Warp again.

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Step 6

Repeat step 5 all over for the other wheel rim in the back. In the end merge all layers except background layer and we will have only two layers.

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Part 2

Part 2 of this tutorial coming soon.

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