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Working with directional blur
Hey, everyone. This is my first time posting on here, I believe.
I’m trying to do something in After Effects that I’ve done with still images in GiMP for years, but I’m having trouble doing it. GiMP has a feature called “motion blur” which is somewhat similar to the AE directional blur– you specify an angle and strength of blur, and it blurs on that angle. It’s REALLY useful if you want to simulate the look of, say, a finger smearing a pastel image or something.
I want to do this in AE as well. I have an image, and I want it to keep blurring off to the right almost as if someone were blowing the image off the screen. So, I have been trying to do this with the directional blur, and it’s not cooperating. The problem is that directional blur seems to blur on both sides of image. That is, if I set directional blur on a 90 degree angle, I will see blur occurring on both the left and right of the image. But what I want is blurring to happen only on the right and not the left. Is there any way to get directional blur to do this?
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Methinks you might be looking for Pete’s Smear:
https://www.petewarden.com/#Free%20Downloads
or Transition>CC Scale Wipe.
If you really want Directional blur, try duplicating the layer and bluring the top layer then revaling it with a rectangular mask. It should work.
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