Suddenly a giant squid bursts into the room! Actually, this was a big hanging display at the zoo. To create this pic, I took a normally exposed shot, then did the following in Photoshop:
- Created a duplicate layer and selected the top layer
- Selected Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur… and fiddled with the settings until I liked it
- Seleted the Eraser tool and set the opacity to around 30%
- Erased the top layer where I wanted it to be in not blurred (i.e., the mouth and eye) and worked my way from the center of the squid out, decreasing opacity to about 5% by the time I was to the outer edges. This allowed the unblurred bottom layer to partially show through where I erased.
- Erased the background with the opacity set to 100% so it was completely unblurred.
Nifty, eh? See the rest of my Flickr photostream.
good picture