Movement

AK
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Alan King
Sep 10, 2003
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I know this is a fairly easy thing to do, I first did it in PS 4 many years ago, but it’s so long back I feel embarrassed to say I can’t remember how on earth I acheived it. I need to make a butterfly appear that it is moving across an area of about 4 inches on a page. The blur movement filter only seems to blur the butterfly and not move it from left to right…how do I get it to fade from nothing to a full image butterfly?

Many thanks
Alan

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Rob Keijzer
Sep 10, 2003
Alan, What I would try is make a motion blur and then history-brush the unwanted side of the blur away.
Do you want part of the blur visible over the butterfly? then this is what I’d do.
Use Liquify if the blur needs to be curved.

Should the butterfly itself remain intact, then copy it first on a layer.

Rob
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John Mensinger
Sep 10, 2003
Or, you could make multiple copies of the butterfly on separate layers, moving each further in the direction of "travel." Then, adjust the opacity of the layers incrementally and add blurring, if desired.

You might also try just one additional copy of the butterfly…stretch it horizontally using Free Transform, then add blur, and fade out the "origin" end of the stretched copy using a layer mask.

The more I think about it, the more different methods and effects come to mind…
BG
barry gray
Sep 10, 2003
I’ve had good luck making several layers of the image, motion or radial blurring each one more than the previous as you go down in the layer stack, then moving each layer a little more than the next.
BG
barry gray
Sep 10, 2003
Good one John!
AK
Alan King
Sep 11, 2003
Thanks to everyone for your ideas and thoughts, I have infact used a combination of all of them, just goes to show there is never only one way to do anything in PS.

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