Using Photoshop to blur out image details/logos

Sometimes we take a really great picture, and then we realise we have someone's car registration or personal information or perhaps a child walking through the image that we don't really want to expose to everyone just incase it could upset the child's parents or upset the car owner etc.....it's nice to respect other peoples information.

So with a little help from the Filter Gallery in Photoshop  we can still keep that picture we took and share it with whoever we like by covering up those individuals details.

I took this shot of a car going through a puddle on Christmas day and decided to share it having covered up the registration number first. This gave me the idea that it would be worth doing a quick tutorial on some techniques for covering up parts of pictures.

By selecting the area of your image you would like to blur out you can cntrl/apple + C to copy that part of the image and cntrl/apple+ V to past the copied part of the image into a new layer. When we use the filter gallery it will affect the whole layer that we are on so we only want those small parts to be affected, hence why we copy and paste to a new layer.

On the top bar select filter and then filter gallery and there is a whole menu of different effects to choose from so it's worthwhile taking your time to look through them.

Check out the new tutorial to see some suggestions: