Most digital image formats are made up of millions of small squares called pixels. If the quality of an image is low or it has been over-magnified, pixelation can occur, which emphasizes the square ...

A blurred image may be a mistake and disappointment when you view important pictures, but sometimes it's an intentional effect you want to add in. With Photoshop, you have complete control over the ...

Photoshop has features and tools that allow you to do very practical and useful things. Knowing how to blur image backgrounds without affecting the image in Photoshop can be a very practical and ...

Photoshop Blur filters are designed primarily for retouching images—to soften, haze, cloud, fuzz, or distort specific areas of a picture or the entire image. Backgrounds are often blurred out to ...

Adobe has updated the iPad version of Photoshop with new Smudge and Sponge tools that were previously only available on the desktop version. The iPadOS version of Photoshop has been steadily gaining ...

Background blur, often called “bokeh” after the Japanese word for blur, is generally associated with high-end cameras with wide-aperture lenses. The effect is popular for portraits, and is emulated — ...

To add extra visual interest to a photo, try using a blur filter to simulate motion. Even though your subject is stationary in the picture, the viewer’s brain will experience the movement, which adds ...

Adobe has updated Photoshop for the iPad with two crucial new tools — the smudge and sponge tools, which have been mainstays on the desktop version of the app but absent on mobile until now. The ...

Adobe today updated its Photoshop for iPad app, introducing two tools that were previously unavailable to bring the iPad version of the app more in line with Photoshop for desktop. With the new Smudge ...