Blurred Flower Print Trend: Techniques in Procreate & Photoshop

1. Introduction & What You'll Learn: Are you ready to explore one of the hottest trends in surface design? In this short class, we'll dive into the world of blurred flower prints, a style that blends soft edges and dreamy effect to create stunning visuals. Hi, I'm Vinita, an illustrator and a designer based in Singapore. I'll guide you step by step through techniques to achieve the blur effect using both Procreate and Photoshop. You can follow along in the class with any motive of your choice. This can be done by any hand illustrated or digitally illustrated motives. I have even attached a PNG format file for the pink flower for you to practice. There's an E book included that provides detailed instruction for all the blur effect shown in the class. There are plenty of print examples too. By the end of the class, you will not only master the art of creating blurred flow prints, but also learn new ways to experiment with different texture and effect in your project. See you in the class. 2. Procreate - Blurr Effect Techniques: So let's see a few techniques to achieve this blur effect in Procreate. I have this Procreate file in the resource section of this class. When you go to layers, you can see there are five layers with the same flour. This is an image of a flower without the background. I'll hide all the layers except the first one. So let's try the first and the most basic blur effect in Procreate. For that, we'll go to adjustments, tap on Gaussian blur. Now with your Apple pencil or with your finger swipe left to right on the canvas. The more you slide towards the right, you can see the intensity of the blur increasing. And when you move left, it will decrease the intensity of the blur. This technique creates a very smooth and gradual transition between the colors. Once you're ready, deselect. Now let's see the second technique that we can use with this same Gaussian blur effect. I'll hide my first layer and unhide my second flower. For this one, I'll turn on my Alpha lock, tap on this layer and tap Alpha lock. Now, again, I'll go back to my adjustments and tap on Gaussian blur. Again, with my fingertip or Apple pencil, I'll slide left to right. So when your alpha lock is switched on for that layer, you can see the edges are very crisp and the edges are not affected by the blur effect. Once you're done, deselect. So this is how the Gaussian blur effect looks without Alphoq and with alpha o. Now let's move on to the second technique. I'll go to layers, hide my second flower, and unhide my third flower. I'll go to adjustments and tap on motion blur. When motion blur is selected, you can see another option here at the center. When you tap on this tiny arrow, you can see there are two options at the center here. One is layer and one is pencil. So we'll try the layer option first. I'll slide my Apple pencil or finger tip on the screen from left to right. This technique can give you a very shaky or moving camera kind of effect. Once you're happy with the effect, deselect. Let's go to the layer again. I'll hide this layer and unhide my fourth flower. Again, we'll go back to adjasins, tap on motion blur. Here in the center on the tiny arrow, I'll tap again, and instead of layer, we'll select pencil. Now, before we start, for this effect, we need a brush to be selected. For that, we'll go to brush, and I'll select this soft brush from airbrushing. With this technique, you can target a specific area of your flour. Now with this brush, I'll add some brush strokes to the area where I need the blur effect. So this is how the motion blur looks when you add it with the layer and the second one when you add with the Apple pencil. There's another way that you can do is with the selection tool, tap on the selection tool. Make sure your free hand is selected. You can roughly select a part of your flour. I'll select the right half. Once the selection is done, we need to feather this selection. Tap on this option called feather. Feather will help you smoothen the selected edges. I'll keep the feather amount as around 30% to 35%. Now we can go to the adjustments. Make sure you are not moving the selection, tap on the adjustments and tap motion blur. Now you can slide your fingertip or the Apple pencil on the canvas. Now you can see only the area selected is getting the blur effect. You can even move your Apple pencil or the finger tip up and down. That can change the direction of the blur effect. So let's move on to our fifth flower. I'll unhide my fifth flower, go back to my adjustments. Here we'll tap on perspective blur. You'll find this little gray circle in the center of your canvas. You can take it out. Now I will slide my finger or Apple pencil on the canvas from left to right to add the intensity of the blur. You can see the blur effect on your flower. This technique gives you this effect of blur that radiates from a vanishing point. You can move this little circle to see the blur effect on your flower. This circle works like a vanishing point that creates a movement that goes towards or away from it. You can experiment with the effect by moving this little circle around et's see another option of adding this perspective blur. I'll select my sixth flower. Make sure you have an extra copy of this flower. We'll go back to adjustments again. Select Perspective blur. Here instead of positional, we'll select directional. That will again show a little circle in the center of the canvas. I'll move this circle out. You can see there's this extra rotating arrow on this circle. I feel there's a very little difference between positional and directional effect. So what I'm going to do is position this little circle at one of the part of this flower, and then we will swipe our fingertip from left to right on the canvas. Now you can experiment by moving this little circle around and also moving the little arrow. The direction of the blur effect changes depending on where the arrow is placed. So this is how the positional and directional blur can look like. 3. Photoshop - Blurr Effect Techniques: So let's see some techniques to add blur effect in Photoshop. You can find the PNG format of this flower in the resource section of this class. You can right click this file and open end Photoshop. Now, before we start, make sure you have a duplicate copy of this layer. Command J and duplicate this flower, hide the first flower. Make sure your duplicate layer is selected. So let's see how motion blur looks like in Photoshop. We'll start by clicking on Filter. Under filter, move down and you'll find this option called blur. Under blur, you'll find an option called Motion blur. Click on Motion blur. When you click on Motion blur, you'll find this little box on your canvas. We can experiment with some settings on this box. You can see there's an option called angle here. Either you can type in or you can move this little tiny circle to change the angle of the blur. So let's see how the effect changes when I move this little circle angle here. The next setting is distance. Here you can change the intensity of the blur. You can see the more I increase this distance, the more intense the blur effect gets. This can depend on the artwork or the print that you're trying to achieve. Once you're happy with the results, tap okay. Another way of adding this motion blur is with the Lasso tool. We'll select the Lasso tool, select a part of your flower. Once you're done selecting, you'll find this little option at the bottom. Click on that, and there's an option called feather selection. This will add some smooth edges to our selection. I'll keep my feather as 50. Click Okay. Now we can add our Motion blur. I'll click on Filter. Go to blur. Click on Motion blur. So you can see only the selected area is affected. You can follow the same steps and experiment with the settings. You can increase the intensity. You can change the direction and the angle. Once you're happy with the results, click Okay. Now let's move on to our second technique of blur effect. Here I have placed four flowers on the canvas because the blur effect can depend on the position of your flow. So let's go back to filter, the filter we'll go to blur again, the blur this time we'll go to radial blur. When you click on Radial Blur, you'll find this tiny box again. So you can see there are two options here. One is spin and the other one is Zoom. So we'll start with the spin first, and the quality here will be best. You can see this little white square here. You can adjust the amount by moving this little arrow. You will be able to understand the function of this once I click Okay. I'll keep this amount as 50%. Let's see how the effect looks when it is at 50%. I'll click Okay. So that's how the spin effect looks like. I think we can reduce the amount here. I will undo this effect by pressing Command Z. I'll go back to Filter, Blur, click on Radial Blur. And this time, I'll reduce the amount to around 30 and press Okay. Let's see how it looks when it is 30. This will reduce the intensity of our blur. So let's see how this same effect can look on all the other flowers. I'll click on the second flower, go back to filter, blur, radial blur, and I'll let the amount be 30 and click Okay. And that's how the flour looks like. You can see how each flour has this different angle because of the position of the flour. I'll select my third flour, go back to filter, blur and radial again. This time, let's change some setting. I'll reduce the amount to around nine and ten, and you can move this little tiny white square. You can experiment with different movement and different amount here and click Okay. Now let's try the fourth one. For the fourth one, let's keep the amount very low. I'll keep it like six or seven. I'll keep it around seven and click Okay. I feel this fourth one looks more practical, but this can depend on your project. So let's try another technique under the same radial blur effect. I'll go back to filter, make sure one of your flour is selected. And again, I'll go back to radial blur. But this time, instead of spin, we will be selecting the option Zoom. Again, this tiny little white square can be moved around. It can help you display the direction of your blur effect. Even for this setting, you have to experiment a little to understand what suits you well. I'll click Okay. And that's how the effect looks like. With this, you can decide if you want to lower the amount or you want to change the direction. Let's try the same effect on the second floor. I'll quickly try the same effect on the third flower. And that's how it looks like. Now for the fourth one, I feel I want to try something new. Instead of keeping on one of the corner, I'll keep it in the center, so we can check how the blur effect looks when the flower is in the center. I'll click Okay, and that's how the flower looks like. So in the next lesson, let's see some print examples and the project. 4. Project & Examples: For your class project, you can pick up any motif to create this blur effect shown in the class. I have curated this Pinterest board that you can explore and follow. It is a combination of a trend board and a mood board. You can even pick up some images for your mood board. You can find the link to this Pinterest board in the project section of this class. Congratulations for completing this class. I hope this class and examples can inspire you to create your own blurred flower print. I will be looking forward for your print in the project section of this class. Your feedback through review helps me improve and plan my future classes. 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