733 Creating a galaxy of rushing stars

- In this movie, we're going…to take our tranquil space portal,…and we're gonna make the stars appear to rush away.…In order to create a higher degree on contrast…between the region outside the portal and the galaxy within.…And we're gonna be doing so using one of…the oldest filters inside Photoshop; radial blur.…Which is made more powerful when you…apply it as a dynamic smart filter.…Alright, so I'll go ahead and scroll down…to the bottom of the layers panel,…and I'll select the background.…Now we wanna apply radial blur to that background,…but we wanna do so dynamically.…

So I'm gonna start things off by…converting this guy to a smart object.…So first, I'll double click on the background…to bring up the new layer dialog box.…And I'll call this layer rush, and then I'll click okay.…And now, armed with my rectangular marquis tool,…which is available to me up here at the top of the tool box,…I'll right click anywhere inside the image window,…and I'll choose convert to smart object.…Now what you wanna do, is go up to the filter menu,…