Photoshop Workshop - Radial Blur

To make an image appear that you are falling into it, a good tool to use is 'Radial Blur'. To achieve this effect you need to start by opening your image and selecting the 'Elliptical Marquee Tool' from the left hand tool bar.

You now simply need to select the area of the image you want to appear you're falling to, which can be done by clicking and dragging. But just before you do this remember to change the feather number to 150 as this will prevent your image from looking "cut and paste".

After selecting your desired area, you now need to 'invert' so that photoshop selects the outside area of this and not the inside. To do so simply click on:

Select --> Inverse

Once you have done this you now need to apply the blur radial blur effect. To do this you need to select:

Filter --> Blur --> Radial Blur

You will then be presented with this box: 

for now we want the effect that makes us feel as though we are falling into the image so we need to select zoom and change the amount as much or as little as you would like. Its a good idea to have a play around with this until you find the amount you like best.

Once you're happy with everything, click ok and photoshop will work its magic to create an image that looks along the lines of this:

Another effect radial blur provides us is a 'spinning' motion. Just follow the same steps as you have previously BUT when you get to this box again:

You need to select 'spin' instead of 'zoom'.

again once you're happy with the settings simply click ok and photoshop will produce an image along the lines of this: