: How to blur part of the underlying image in photoshop? I am a newbie in photoshop and learning it all by myself, recently I came across of this image and tried to recreate the effect (I

@Megan533

I quess I figured out one of the good ways of how to achieve the effect:


I converted my image (layer 1) into the smart object
Created a shape with rectangle tool, with no stroke, filled with white (didn't matter what color actually as long as it's colored) (layer 2)
I copied the image (layer 1), and placed it on the very top (layer 3), right click, create clipping mask, go to filter, blur, gaussian blur (radius 12px)


Done!

Achieved thanks to: medialoot.com/blog/how-to-create-a-dynamic-ios-7-style-background-blur-in-photoshop/

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@Welton168

One way I would go about doing it would be the following:

Take your clear image and duplicate the layer.

Blur the top layer with Gaussian blur.

Create a layer mask on the blurred layer (the circle inside the square button next to the new layer button).

Use either a blurry brush with black fill, or create a gradient from white to black, and expose the clear layer underneath. Black reveals, white conceals.

Let me know what you think!

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