In this following photograph some children playing soccer. Fast shutter speed applied while taking this photograph, to freeze the action. At this point we’d like to put some motion into the photo like following AFTER image:

Before and After Motion.

Before and After Motion.

The first thing we do is drop the photo into Photoshop. We’ll make a selection around the boy who is ready to kick the ball. He’s the main focus of this photo. To make the selection we’ll use the lasso tool in the tool bar:

Using Lasso Tool.

Using Lasso Tool.

When we make the selection around the boy, we’ll make sure to feather the selection so that the boy doesn’t look selected with a hard edge. To feather the selection, we go to Select / Modify / Feather:

Select Feather.

Select Feather.

For this image we think we’ll feather at 45 pixels. Then we click OK:

Set Feather.

Set Feather.

The next thing we need to do is to inverse the selection. Right now the boy is selected. We need to have everything around the boy selected. This is why we’re going to inverse the selection. We’ll go to Select / Inverse:

Select Inverse.

Select Inverse.

Then we’ll go to Filter / Blur / Motion Blur:

Select Motion Blur.

Select Motion Blur.

This is where you have to decide how much motion blur you want. For this image we think we’ll use a motion blur of 171 pixels and keep the “Angle” at 0. We make sure the preview box is checked in the Motion Blur dialog box. Then we click OK:

Set Motion Blur.

Set Motion Blur.

On our keyboard, we hit the keys CTRL-D to deselect the selection. For any reason you see something else in the image that you wish you didn’t blur, you can always go to the history brush and bring it back.

Here we decided to bring back the ball, but not 100%. We’ll go to the history brush and We’ll also make sure the history is marked off (the little paintbrush next to the Open step in the image, below) in the History Palette to the point we want to go back:

Marked History Palette

Marked History Palette

Here we’re going to bring the opacity of the history brush to 35%. We brush the ball to see how we like how it comes out. If we want to see more of the soccer ball, then we just brush over it again:

Set Opacity.

Set Opacity.

Here’s the finished image:

Final Image.

Final Image.

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