how to achieve these picture effects

bovril

Does anyone know how I could achieve the same effects as the ones in this picture

thanks

Verdammt

Originally posted by bovril
Does anyone know how I could achieve the same effects as the ones in this picture

thanks

Try Photoshop or strap yourself to a F1 car. Personally I think photoshop my be cheaper.

norma

I don't think the car is moving at all. Look at the direction of the blur lines.
This is taken using a relatively long exposure using a zoom lens. Put the camera on a tripod, select a longish shutter speed and, while the shutter is open, move the zoom lens through its range of focal lengths. That will create this effect, which is not one of the car moving horizontally, but a blur radiating from the centre.
Norma.

Panda

theres a distortion effect in paint shop pro that can do it, i cant remember which one it is tho,
tell u tomor.

rymus

exactly what norma said. I have a few prints of mine around somewhere with this effect on them. If I can find em I'll scan them and put them up for a looky

Verdammt

Originally posted by rymus
exactly what norma said. I have a few prints of mine around somewhere with this effect on them. If I can find em I'll scan them and put them up for a looky

It was created by PS, believe me ....

Samson

It was not necessarily created in Photoshop.
Again, as per what Norma says. It's actually fairly easy to do "in camera" and is known as a zoom burst if memory serves.

tricky D

PhotoShop
Filter
Radial Blur

easy innit!

Third_Echelon

i think its called radial blur.. either in photoshop or paintshop...

Third_Echelon

ah didnt see that.. we must have posted at the same time...well now he definitely knows...

Dr. Dre

It's a combination of the radial and motion blur filters in photoshop.
Very easy actually. I'll see if I can find you a tutorial.

Dr. Dre

Here you go !
There's a motion blur tutorial here, which should help you understand the blur filters.

It really is just a matter of messing around with the filters, depending on the picture obviously.

bovril

thanks for the replies lads, very helpful!

KoNiT

Some good tutorials there Dr Dre

Dr. Dre

Some good tutorials there

Indeed. I think video tutorials are the best. I think I have links to a few more sites with video tutorials, don't know if I have them here in work, or at home. Will check.

Dr. Dre

Hmm well they're not in work !
But in the interim here are some links which are quite good for text based tutorials.

http://tiemdesign.com/HOWTO/Photoshop.htm
http://www.digital-creativity.org.uk/
http://www.good-tutorials.com/

Panda

If you're using Paint Shop you can achieve a similar effect aswell.

I went messing around with it last night,
draw a selection around the car then invert the selection.
use motion blur to desired "speed" or whatever u want to call it.
then go to the deformation menu and click on "spiky halo", turn the frequency down to 5 or thereabouts and hit ok.

it may not look quite as good mind....

rymus

Originally posted by Billy-Joe
It was created by PS, believe me ....

I dont doubt you.. I'm just saying that you can do the same thing with a normal ol camera

Placebo

hmm looks like a bit of zoom efFect and radial blur.