Apply Box Blur Filter to Video in Photoshop CS6

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Video: Apply Box Blur Filter to Video in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow! In this video, we are going to show you how you can apply a box blur filter over a video clip in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.

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   As we can see, we've already got some film imported into Photoshop in this tutorial

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   The timeline is at the bottom. The layers are on the side to show the different clips.

   

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   We have to remember to keep the clips as smart objects when we want to apply a filter

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   There are other VisiHow videos on how to covert clips to smart objects.

   

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   Then, we select the filter with which we want to work

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   We click "Filter" at the top

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   We find "Blur"

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   We click "Box Blur..." down in the list

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   The filters are in the alphabetical order. We will have a pop-up window with a preview. Photoshop gives us the canvas preview as well.

   

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   We zoom out of the preview with "-" on the left

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   We zoom in with "+" on the right

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   The box blur is very useful when we are trying to create a special effect. It tends to take the colors of the surrounding pixels in each area and eliminate everything of a strange color. This might give more detail.

   

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   Underneath the preview, we have "Radius"

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   We can type in a number if we want.

   

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    Alternatively, we just drag the slider

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    We can see that the effect can have quite strong blur, but maybe we prefer something a little more subtle.

    

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    Then, we just click "OK" to apply the effect to the smart object

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    When we play the video, the blur will be visible throughout the smart object

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    We can hide effects at the right-hand side by clicking the eye icon

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    We will see that the blur will be removed.

    

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    Alternatively, we can just step backwards

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