KPT's Motion Blur filter blurs the image or selection beyond the boundaries making the effect more realistic and less troublesome (with Photoshop's Motion Blur you must expand the image canvas or selection in order to achieve the same effect). I found the Motion Blur to be particularly handy because it lacks the shortcomings of Photoshop's own Motion Blur. Other Blur effects include Camera Optics (which simulates optical blur effects similar to those created with a camera), Zoom Blur, Spiral Blur, Spiral Weave Blur, and Motion Blur.įigure 2: Using the Spiral Blur filter option to a black and white photo, then applying a new layer over it using the Color Burn option and 40% opacity to create this hurricane-like effect. Some of the blur effects are new and original such as the Hi-Speed Blur option (a fast Blur that leaves more of the original image intact), the Kraussian Blur option (an augmented Gaussian Blur), and Gaussian Weave Blur (a Gaussian Blur that is applied horizontally and vertically to create a burlap-style 'weave' effect). KPT Blurrrr adds a range of new blurring tools to your arsenal. No, we didn't fall asleep on the 'r' key, that's how MetaCreations spelled it. As a frame of reference, I tested KPT 5 on a 400 Mhz Pentium II (100 MB bus), 256 MB RAM, running Windows 98. I will be mentioning the speed of the filters from time to time as well. Now let's take a closer look at each of the new filters in KPT 5. That said, KPT 5 comes with all of the filters from KPT 3 so you won't have to miss out on all those tasty old effects. The filters in KPT 5 are not merely upgrades to the filters in KPT 3, they are totally new and original filters. Plugging into Photoshop with Kai's Power Tools 5

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