photoshop help needed

[UKBob]

Id like to achieve this:


with this crappy pic of mine:


but my photoshop skills are:


Can anyone try and provide me with a step by step tutorial, so that I can make my train pic (in the middle) blurred like the first train pic, I cant figure out how to do it.

Edited by UKBob on Friday 9th March 19:03

[Rednut05]

bob

This took me so long to find but I knew it was about.

with thanks to Nick_bbb

Hope he doesn't mind the link.

David

[stuart b]

Nick's is a great tutorial. He does however plan ahead and have the background without the cars on.

Here's a very quick n dirty attempt (which I did for fun to see if I could).



If you think it's the sort of thing you want, I'll write up what I did as best I can.

Stuart

[UKBob]

Rednut05 said:

bob

This took me so long to find but I knew it was about.

with thanks to Nick_bbb

Hope he doesn't mind the link.

David

Excellent! The radial blur works, as you can set the horizon point

Cheers

[UKBob]

Ive blurred the whole scene, but how do I create a new layer, and smoothly (feather?) erase the areas around the train? Im trying with the eraser and 85% opacity, but it doesnt look very good where the train meets the blurry background

[UKBob]

Before:


After:


Comments?

[trackdemon]

As the train is moving relative to the scenery the reflections down the side of it should also be blurred.....

[UKBob]

trackdemon said:

As the train is moving relative to the scenery the reflections down the side of it should also be blurred.....

[nick_bbb]

Yeah I don't have that bit in my tutorial as it didn't really matter for the shot I had. It can still be done Bob but it takes a long time, you have to select each panel and not select the bits you don't want to blur like window frames etc. Looking at the photo you've got I think it would take days rather than hours!

[nick_bbb]

Also just to clarify i didn't have a shot of just the track, I created the blank version using the clone tool to avoid the forward ghosting of the car like the yellow of the train you can see on Bob's

[UKBob]

Cheers nick.

The only photo I took the time to try and enhance properly was my burger shot, and even that wasnt done as well as it could have been. The extra 10% of effect Id get by bluring the windows would be 90% of the time it took to manipulate the photo, so I guess Im done. If it was a great photo (its not) then Id be more inclined to play with it further.