Smart Object Support for Blur Gallery and Liquify Watch as Photoshop Senior Product Manager, Zorana Gee, introduces how you can now create photographic blurs and reshape images and video nondestructively with new Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify. These features are available now, exclusively to Creative Cloud members.

Join Scott Kelby, Kelby Media Group CEO, as he shows his favorite features in the new release of Adobe Photoshop, showing performance enhancements and timesaving features available to Creative Cloud members.

Learn Julieanne’s top 5 favorite features in Photoshop 13.1 including refinements to the Crop Tool, nondestructive editing with Blur Gallery and Liquify, increased efficiency with Conditional Actions, practical default Type Styles and support for Retina displays on Macintosh.

Create sophisticated photographic blur effects in Photoshop Elements 11. In this tutorial, you'll see how to use the new Tilt-Shift Guided Edit to create a miniature effect. Then you'll learn how to refine the results with the new Refine Edge selection option in Expert mode.

Check out the latest and greatest features, including a modern look, easier ways to share and organize, eye-popping illustration filters, and Guided Edits that help you create vignettes, tilt-shift blurs, and high-key and low-key effects

Even with the fantastic new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, the Lens Blur filter is an essential tool when a high degree of control is needed to selectively (and realistically) blur an image. In this video tutorial, Julieanne uses the Lens Blur filter with a depth map to to create a series of images that appear as if they were captured with a tilt-shift lens. Julieanne also demonstrates how to quickly apply this filter to multiple images using actions and batch processing.

The ability to add a creative blur to images in Adobe Photoshop CS6 just got easier. With the new Blur Gallery you can target regions within your images and customize the areas that you want to be in, or out of focus. This tutorial will discuss the detials in using the new Bokeh feature found in the Blur Gallery. Learn the fine art of adding a bokeh of light to your images for unique, and special effects.

Learn more about the power of the Mask Feather tool and how it can be used in design work for creating both outside and inside feathers on a single mask. Discover how to set and adjust multiple points in the mask, context menu features such as Hold, and how to use the tool to add a nice blur effect to a text mask.

In this episode, join Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost as she shows off some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, part of the new Adobe Creative Cloud. See the blazingly fast performance of the new Mercury Graphics Engine. Learn about the new improved processing and enhanced controls in Adobe Camera Raw 7, the new photographic blur effects, how to straighten objects using the new Adaptive Wide Angle, and more. Explore many of the timesaving and user-inspired enhancements including new type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, and the all-new Crop tool. Also explore the intuitive video editing capabilities of Photoshop CS6 and 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS6 Extended.

Napp Instructor Pete Collins goes over the brand new features of Photoshop CS6 - the blur gallery. From selectively blurring an area to creating tilt-shift effects, these tools will be a great creative tool for photographers.

Powered by the new Mercury Graphics Engine, the Blur Gallery allows you to apply and combine three kinds of blur. Use it to create depth-of-field effects in post. This highly versatile filter also allows you to customize specific points of blur and focus.

Learn about the Gaussian Blur effect, which provides instant previews and vastly improved render time.

Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.

Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost shows how to selectively blur images in Photoshop CS6.

Russell shares his tips and techniques for using Tilt Shift, Iris Blur, and Field Blur in Photoshop CS6.

Colin Smith shows you the new blur gallery in Photoshop CS6 beta. See the 3 different types of lens blur and bokeh in action. Tilt-shift miniaturization, field blur and iris blur are all fun and powerful. From the PhotoshopCAFE Photoshop CS6 beta Launch site. http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cs6

Take a quick look at Julieanne's favorite 6 features in Photoshop CS6 including improved processing in Adobe Camera Raw, the intuitive new Blur Gallery, time-saving type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, powerful video editing tools, and the redesigned Crop tool, and auto-select interpolation.

Download Photoshop CS6 Beta from Adobe Labs to try it out.

Join Russell Brown as he walks you through his six favorite features in Adobe Photoshop CS6 including new Camera RAW Support, the Blur Gallery, Content Aware Move and more!

Motion blur is something that occurs naturally in photography but there are many ways that we can create realistic motion blur in After Effects too. Colin will show you the settings and options to help you control motion blur on animations, graphics and even on videos that don’t contain any movement at all. He will also demonstrate how to add motion blur to the many animation presets that ship with After Effects.

Many moons ago, Adobe incorporated Aldus Filter Gallery into Photoshop. Colin will show you how these filters may be ready for a rebirth by showing how to combine them with the power of Smart Objects to create new and exciting patterns and backgrounds that can be experiment with and updated dynamically.

Russell Brown starts with a composite image and then uses the Blur filter and the Add Fade effect to create a dynamic directional blur effect.

In this video demo, Jue Wang will show you a sneak peek of a potential new feature that allows users to remove blurriness from digital photos caused by camera shake while the pictures were being taken.

Come see how a few simple UX design patterns can facilitate a shared, social learning experience that blurs the boundaries between inspiration and instruction, as well as between content and community. Three trends are currently sweeping digital media: Tablets are moving from content consumption to creation, social features are increasingly pervasive, and everything is shifting to the cloud. Join us to explore how this trifecta creates exciting opportunities for designers and developers, and to examine our own promising effort at taking advantage of these trends.

In this episode, our four presenters demonstrate Flash professional, After Effects, Dynamic Link, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Illustrator.

In this episode, Jason Levine showcases Camera Lens Blur, Light Falloff and 3D Camera Rig in After Effects CS5.5, along with the amazing new Warp Stabilizer effect, classic Puppet Tool and Dynamic Link workflow.

The greatly improved Camera Lens Blur effect in After Effects CS5.5 allows you to add the same advanced iris simulations and highlight enhancements to already-shot 2D footage offered in CS 5.5 by the impressive new 3D camera depth of field.

An oft-overlooked issue in stereoscopic production is how the point of convergence relates to the viewing plane. Chris Meyer demonstrates adding 3D depth of field blur to the equation to create more realistic, easier-to-view scenes.

Apply realistic blurs to perfectly shot footage to create elegant attributes of a soft focus image with the Camera Lens Blur effect in After Effects CS5.5.

This new effect gives you the ability to create the optical effect of a real camera lens blur. If you need to add depth to a scene, or obscure something in the frame, Camera Lens Blur will do that and make it look completely realistic. You also have complete control parameters like iris shape, blur maps, super whites, gain and threshold.

After Effects CS5.5 features some great new features such as Warp Stabilizer and Camera Lens Blur. Learn how a professional-class workstation with Intel Xeon processors can give you blazingly fast previews and rendering to let you get your work done faster than ever before.

There are times when you need to publish a video but hide a portion from view. Many times it’s someone’s face that gets blocked out by pixelating the area around it. This demonstration shows you how you can use the Extended version of Photoshop to import a video and add a non-destructive blur layer that follows someone’s face anywhere in the frame. The final result can be output to any video format or individual still images so you can guarantee no will ever know who was under that blur.

Create an HDR (High Dynamic Range) look with your video footage in minutes using simple techniques with Delirium v2's Grayscaler, Invert, and Gaussian Blur.

Precisely adjust depth of field to make your subject stand out.

Chet demonstrates how to use the new AnimateFilter effect in Flex 4 to animate transient filter effects such as blurring objects out. He also shows when AnimateFilter is not the right tool for the job.

The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we're going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it's really a part of the original photo. This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the 'Focus') and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost shows us how to get great results with the Lens Blur Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

When we think of blurring we usually think of the Gaussian Blur filter. But the blur photographers get from it tends to look fake. The Lens Blur filter provides a much more realistic blur and, with some setup time, can create some very realistic results.

You can create some cool effects in InDesign by applying effects and hiding the object itself. Learn how in this short and informative videocast by InDesignSecrets co-hosts David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion

Adobe Beginner Classes takes you from nothing to a finished broadcast slate in 24 minutes? Yes. Along the way, you'll learn about compound blur, shape layers, repeaters and more. Sounds like fun right? Then come on down!

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase adds lifelike motion to GUI objects, using traditional animation techniques of anticipation, follow-through, and motion blur.

Richard Harrington shares tips on the new, subtly refined tools in Photoshop CS4 to help get the results you want with your images.

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to add a motion blur to effects that don't support this feature. Also covered is adding blur to video footage that has been sped up.

Eddie Tapp shows how to use special blur effects and a soft-edge mask to take a traditional portrait into a new creative look.

Jim DiVitale shows how to use the Photoshop Lens Blur filter. A photograph is changed to a selective focus image with exact control of what is sharp and what falls out of focus.

Colin Smith experiments with the Lens Blur Filter. This technique will add believable depth of field to your images. Create dreamy backgrounds while keeping your main subject crisply in focus.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to use depth of field blur to create backdrops for use in chroma keying.

Discover how to edit movie frames in Photoshop CS3 Extended Edition and control timelines with a wave of your hand. To complete your animated masterpiece, apply motion blur techniques.