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Radial and directional blurs

Radial and directional blurs - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Radial and directional blurs

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- [Instructor] In Storyboard Pro version 5.5 and later we have many more options for adding blurs to bitmap layers and it's great because blurs do help add depth and motion to your boards. Now we've been able to use blurs in previous versions of Storyboard Pro, but it was just a standard Gaussian blur. Now we have many more selections to help improve our boards. So let's take a look at how this works and remember I did mention that this is specifically to be used with bitmap layers. Now, bitmap layers as you can see here, I've got the guy jumping, has a blue bar on the left. Blue for sky that's kind of how I think of it, okay? Vector layers have a gray bar beside it. So, now if you've drawn something that you want to blur and it's on a vector layer, don't worry it's easy. For instance, the horse down here, let's say we want to convert that to a bitmap layer, it's easy. Just highlight it, go to layer, come down to convert to bitmap layer, select, you can just keep the defaults, and…

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