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Photoshop instructor Rick Sammon shows you a couple ways to add some excitement to your photos.

Rick Sammon has published 27 books, including his latest trio: Rick Sammon’s Travel and Nature Photography, Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Digital Photography, and Idea to Image.

5 Comments

  1. Rhonda said on — April 20, 2008 @ 2:47 pm

    Fun Effect, not hard to do. Great way to kick up your photo’s.

  2. Alexander said on — July 4, 2008 @ 6:42 pm

    Why not to use layer mask to hide blur?))

  3. Alexander said on — July 4, 2008 @ 6:42 pm

    Thanks anyway)

  4. Abdullah said on — January 12, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

    That is pretty cool,
    Thank you

  5. Mark Crowley said on — November 15, 2010 @ 12:32 am

    I agree with Alexander – layer mask would be better, that way you’re not affecting the photo in any way. None-the-less, a nice effect.

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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