Hands-on Tutorial

Intermediate

2 min

How to use a filter to create a blur effect

Photoshop filters are useful for creating photographic effects, like softening a portrait to draw attention to the subject.

Start with core concepts

You can use Photoshop filters to re-create popular photography effects or to change the look of a photo.

What you'll learn

Discover different kinds of filters

Recognize how basic filters stylize a photo, whereas other filters reproduce photography techniques.

Add a filter

Add creative filters to make a photo look like an oil painting or to give it a soft and dreamlike look.

Add a mask

Apply filters to just part of a photo with the help of layer masks.


Presenter and Designer

Gabriela Iancu

Adobe Stock Contributors

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Juri Semjonow

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September 7, 2022

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