Photoshop: Blur with Gradient

January 2, 2006 Leave a Comment Written by Cari Jansen

My dad asked me a question on how to blur an image, whilst having the blur occur gradually. The following tutorial provides one method you can use to achieve this.

About the tip

Ok, this is the first quicktime tutorial I’ve recorded. I must apologize in advance for the bad sound quality: lack of a head-set 🙂 So I had to use the internal microphone on my Mac 🙂 I hope to purchase a new head-set over the next week or so and add more of these tutorials.

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