Painting Motion

Using custom brushes and the smudge tool to create an interesting motion blur effect.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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thug_life said on — March 30, 2008 @ 11:45 pm

wow dude that tutorial is sick thx man
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Captain Lenny said on — May 28, 2008 @ 8:15 pm

If you were my college math teacher. . .I would have my degree now!

everything is clear and concise

plus it’s just plane COOL
Donotexist said on — June 4, 2008 @ 7:33 am

love your tutorial~~^^
Libby said on — June 29, 2008 @ 9:16 am

Great tutorial!
Mine worked great!
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Andey17 said on — August 23, 2008 @ 12:53 am

That last effect on the text was very impressive..how did you do that????
mickchard said on — September 4, 2008 @ 12:01 pm

Hi, first of all love all the tutorials and also thanks as they have taught me a lot I am a total novice but am having a little trouble. when I select the smudge tool or brush tool it just appears as a crosshairs with a dot in the middle instead of looking the like the outline of my image??? how can i rectify this please?? thanks
mickchard said on — September 4, 2008 @ 12:03 pm

ps i would also love to know how you did the last “flash” effect on the text!!
nikhil said on — October 1, 2008 @ 2:42 am

this is a masterpiece.
I love your all tuts
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haya said on — March 30, 2009 @ 12:59 pm

THANKS A LOT U R THE BEST
GOURMAND said on — May 22, 2009 @ 11:42 am

Dear sirs,
Can somebody help me with a function that I can’t realise in CS4. I try to “Select” the picture after define the runner. This is impossible in SC4 because when I clic on selection, I have several possibilities; select all ; deselect ; ,,,

Thanks for your help, Danny
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hi said on — September 26, 2009 @ 11:03 pm

hey i got a problem okay when u used the lasso tool and then pressed cntrl j to make it into a layer and into a brush when i did that with my image it also included the background how did u turn on the lasso on new layer to show withought getting background
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