Motion blur filter

Where can I get a motion blur filter / plugin other than the one provided in PS?

Like MBL Pro?

CraigPatterson wrote in post #15782754
Like MBL Pro?

At $100 for a single plugin? No, probably not like MBLPro. But I thank you for your reply.

Still looking...

It seems cheap enough to me. This one's $2500, though it does have more vectoring options.

the cheapest way is to move the camera or the subject or both!

sorry, not much help.

CraigPatterson wrote in post #15783246
It seems cheap enough to me

Well... I think I'll have to disagree with that.

Considering the fact I just bought the entire Nik suite of plugins, which includes:

- tons of special effects filters
- HDR processing app
- SilverEfex, far and away the best black & white conversion plugin in the universe
- dFine, IMHO the best noise reduction plugin
- and on...

for only $26 more, I'll probably stay with the opinion $100 for a single motion blur plugin is a bit too much.

But thanks.

ride5000 wrote in post #15783411
the cheapest way is to move the camera or the subject or both!

sorry, not much help.

I agree, and have done it.

But the images being processed are already taken.

Anybody know of a decent motion blur filter?

What's wrong with the Photoshop Motion Blur? I've used a few different ones in the past and they all turn out the same.

NCHANT wrote in post #15784613
What's wrong with the Photoshop Motion Blur? I've used a few different ones in the past and they all turn out the same.

Thanks for the reply.

When you M-blur an entire image, it leaves an artifact along the edges on both sides. Wish I had an example to post, but not at this time.

I need a motion filter that will create the effect evenly from border to border.

Picture North Carolina wrote in post #15785362
Thanks for the reply.

When you M-blur an entire image, it leaves an artifact along the edges on both sides. Wish I had an example to post, but not at this time.

I need a motion filter that will create the effect evenly from border to border.

Not sure how/why you are getting that, mine goes edge to edge every time. How many pixels are you blurring and what angle?

You just need to work the current blur filters more effectively. You can do anything with the photoshop filters that you can with the expensive ones. Usually the ones you have to pay for automate things much easier

Picture North Carolina wrote in post #15785362
When you M-blur an entire image, it leaves an artifact along the edges on both sides..

Make sure there's no transparency around the image you're blurring.
Apart from that, there's nothing you can do: Along the edge, PS simply has half pixels to create the blur with (no pixels outside the edge).

Try using the MB filter in PS with the following technique:

Say you want a fairly large MB (like 40 pixels) and you want it to be primarily oriented horizontally. When you do this, depending upon the image content, you may get a noticeable stripe of contrast or change in blurred pixel appearance along the vertical edges of the image produced by the MB filter at the image edge. You need to give the filter some pixels beyond the edge of the image to work with. In this approach, you can extend the image and mirror the edge pixels to provide additional data with which the blur filter can work.

1) Duplicate the background layer.

2) Extend the canvas at least 2x the size of the blur you want to produce in the MB filter.

3) Target the duplicate of the background layer and choose Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal to flip the layer and create a mirror image of the original.

4) Duplicate the flipped layer - now you have two copies of the flipped layer.

5) Drag one of these flipped versions to the right edge to create a mirrored extension of the right side of the image and drag the other to the left side of the image to create a mirrored extension of the left side of the image.

6) Now apply the MB filter.

7) Now change you canvas size back to the original dimension - you will get a warning that clipping of the image will occur - that is what you want. You are cutting off the extensions, leaving you with the original image, without the artifact.

Original Image

Excellent. Thank you all for your replies. It was very helpful!

Kirk,
Thanks. Yes, your first blurred pic with the bad edges is exactly what I am getting, but the "bad" margins are larger because I am blurring more than 40. I've found the more severe the blur, the wider the margins grow.

I was doing a workflow similar to your which involved:
- dupe bkg layer
- blur bkg layer one
- extend canvas size of duped layer
- blur again
- crop image back to original
- use duped layer to mask away bad edges on original bkg layer

But it did not completely remove the bad edges. I had never thought of flipping layers, extending edges, and so forth. That's actually a pretty ingenious idea (don't let it go to your head ). Sounds like it may work. I'll give it a try. With great thanks!

The technique also works when you have a 32bit HDR equirectangular panorama and you need to tone map it - you can avoid the unsightly seam that will inevitably occur at the vertical edge (which should be continuous in a 360x180 pano). Instead of flipping, you just move the dupes next to each edge to continue the scene beyond the original borders. Then you can tonemap and not get edge effects.

hope it works for you!

kirk