Tutorial
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1. Get your image. I am using this picture of Morpheus that I have cut out already:
2. Once you have cut out your image, make a new layer, fill it with white, and place it underneath your picture, then go to filter > blur > Gaussian Blur. Use a setting of 5 or 6. I used 5, and heres what you should get:
3. Then go to edit > Fade guassian blur… then choose opacity is 100 and and make sure the blending mode is set to hard light. You should end up with this:

2. Once you have cut out your image, make a new layer, fill it with white, and place it underneath your picture, then go to filter > blur > Gaussian Blur. Use a setting of 5 or 6. I used 5, and heres what you should get:

3. Then go to edit > Fade guassian blur… then choose opacity is 100 and and make sure the blending mode is set to hard light. You should end up with this:

Tutorial Comments
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I love how this turns out! It makes me want to edit all my pictures now, lol! Thanks for the great tutorial! :D
By DeadPsycho on Aug 14, 2007 2:45 am
loooooooooooool
By genuinelyDOPE on Jun 6, 2007 12:23 am
Didnt work for me for some reason =[
By tanichick on Apr 9, 2006 6:50 pm
umm.. awesome
By :) :( on Apr 8, 2006 12:44 pm