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How to blur a part of text in Photoshop
Lets learn a neat little trick, and make a part of a random text look like it's out of focus.
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Open a new Photoshop document.
Choose the Horizontal Type Tool.
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Press Commit button to confirm the text you just typed.
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Choose the Brush Tool.
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Set the according brush size and set Hardness to 0%.
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Press D to select the black foreground color.
And click the text area you want it to be IN focus.
The rest is going to be blurred out.
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Hold Ctrl and click the new layer's thumbnail (see picture).
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Deactivate the new layers visibility and choose the text layer (see picture).
Click the little eye icon next to the new layer to deactivate layer visibility.
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In the menu click Select and choose Inverse.
In the menu click Filter, Blur and choose Gaussian Blur.
Click OK.
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Set the blur Radius to about 3.2 pixels and click OK.
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And you are done!
Click here for the Gimp version of this tutorial.
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