Smart crop and blur border effect

Activate the previous layer, and then select Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur menu. I use 20 pixels in Radius to make the image blurred.

Here is the result of this Photoshop smart crop and blur border tutorial.

The layer doesn’t have to blurred, because we can do something else on this layer. For example like this one below. I make a Hue/Saturation in adjustment panel to make the image has a different colored atmosphere.

The result of this Photoshop tutorial is like this.

Tags: Border, Photo Effects, Photoshop CS4, rule of the third, Tutorials

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