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how did you do the perspective blur in your doof piece :0 ?
Photoshop’s Gaussian Blur is my savior. I’ll try to do a quick walkthrough of how I go through the process too because I use blur A LOT, and not just for perspective – I switch between Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop CS4 for reference.
This first step is a personal preference one, but I’ll include it nonetheless. I use a very hard brush for my line art/coloring, so the first round of blur goes to soften the line art.
In photoshop, go to your top menu bar, click Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. For softening the vanilla image i usually do 0.4 - 0.6. The difference is very slight but very important to me, it gets rid of a lot of the pixelyness. NOW the main bit.
Time to put it through another round of Gaussian. I usually bump it up to about 6 - 7. I take the super blurry image back into SAI and put it on a layer above the first softened image. Using the eraser tool set on density (under the advanced options of the tool) I start dabbing away at the top blurry layer to reveal the cleaner one underneath. I don’t have any images from before I added more lighting over Doof but this’ll give you the idea of the effect it achieves.
It gives the picture an atmospheric sort of haziness to it that I loooove. Some things need just a bit more of a push, like his leg for example, so I didn’t erase any of the top blurred layer airbrushed it with the background’s dusty color. That’s it!
Pardon me for such a long post haha but I hope I fully covered it!