Blurring the background with a radial blur

Now that we have extracted the subjects from their background environment,…what we're going to do is to change the background in its entirety.…The way that we'll do that is we'll turn on the visibility of the background layer.…Notice how we can see the trees and the buildings and…the cars there in the background.…Well if we click into the background layer,…we can duplicate or copy this layer.…Let's do that, just so we have some flexibility in case we make a mistake.…Here we'll click and drag this to the new layer icon, that will…give us a duplicate of our background, and lets name this background layer Blur.…

Now we can apply the blur a number of different ways.…We could convert this layer to smart object layer and…convert and apply the blur as a smart object,.…Or we can just apply it to layer itself,…which is what I'm going to do here in order to try to keep things simple.…So let's navigate to our Filter pull down menu, and here we're going to choose Blur.…And then we're going to navigate to Radial Blur, which we've seen previously.…