In Googling the issue, there has been a plethora of suggestions Delete settings PSP file, Modify the registry to include MAX memory, holding Spacebar on Print, updating/verifying a current printer driver, changing default printer, uninstalling Windows updates, etc… Attempting to print to HP, EPSON, and other printers.Įverything worked fine until PSCC 2019, thereabouts. My situation is on Win10 1909, PSCC 2020.
Printing works Fine in all the other Adobe, MS, et al, applications. When we go to print, PS says that a printer has not been selected.
With this straightforward guideline, you’ll master how to use the feature in no time.Something that does not seem to be addressed… Some, including myself and MANY others, have been experiencing… As a graphic designer, you need to know which type of Blur will suit your work and how to use the variety of blur types available on Photoshop. Conclusionīlurring an image is mainly for special effects, a means to stylize your work. Once you click Ok on your screen, the final product is what you see on your screen, as illustrated above. Once you are satisfied with the blurred level, proceed to click Ok on the right-hand side of the dialogue box. Once you adjust that the image right above, it gives you a preview of what the main image will look like once done. For this illustration, the Radius is 15.5. On it, you can change the Radius, which is the extent to which the blurring should go. On the dialogue box on your screen, click Ok to allow Photoshop to convert your image to Bitmap format.Īfter clicking Ok, as done in the previous step, you’ll see a dialogue box on your screen titled Gaussian Blur. If the image on the screen is already a Bitmap image, the option to Rasterize it will not come up on your screen. Note: Photoshop images are in the Bitmap image format. You need to Rasterize your image because a shape is naturally a vector image, and in Photoshop, you can’t Blur or sharpen it. To Rasterize an image means to change it from being a Vector type image to a Bitmap Image. Irrespective of the popular ones, you can always choose other types, all depending on the effect you desire.įor this step-by-step illustration, the Blur type employed is the Gaussian Blur.Īfter you click on the Blur type you desire, a dialogue box pops up right on your screen, asking you if it can Rasterize the shape. The commonly used Blur types are the Gaussian Blur, Lens Blur, and Motion Blur. On it, you’ll see some blur types that are faded, i.e., you can’t access those types of Blur, and then you’ll see other types of it like Surface Blur, Radical Blur, Blur More, Blur, Gaussian Blur, and so on. Once you choose that, another drop-down box with a list of different types of Blur appears. To access the blur features on Photoshop, scroll to the topmost part of your Photoshop screen, at the Menu toolbar, and click Filter. By clicking on that layer, you are automatically highlighting/selecting the image for the next phase/step of your work. To highlight your shape, scroll to the right-hand side of your Photoshop screen at the Layer menu on the screen, click on the layer named Rounded Rectangle 1. Step 3: Highlighting the rectangle shape using a pick toolĪfter creating your rounded rectangle shape on your canvas and filling it with your desired color, you need to highlight the shape to use the blur function/feature. Go ahead and use any filling you want to make your work better. The filling used in the illustration above is a red-colored filling. You can go ahead to fill in the shape created. Drag your tool to your canvas and create your shape. Pick the desired shape you want, in which here the option is a rectangle shape. Scroll to the left-hand side of your Photoshop screen, and click on your tool shape.
For this illustration, the designer picked the rectangle shape to work. The second step is to create something on your canvas to employ the blur feature in Photoshop effectively. Step 2: Create a shape (a rounded-rectangle shape) Filling the dialogue box opens up a new canvas immediately. Go ahead and fill in the required information as seen above, create a name for the canvas, and once done, scroll to the right-hand side of the dialogue box and click OK. Details such as width, height, resolution, etc. A drop menu box appears scroll down it and click on New.Ī dialogue box pops up with the necessary details for the new canvas. Scroll to the left-hand side of your Photoshop screen, at the Menu toolbar, click on Files. The first step, as illustrated below, is to create a new canvas for work. Step-by-step guide on how to use Photoshop blur layer Here is a straightforward step-by-step guide on using the blur layer in Photoshop to understand how to use the blur feature. Photoshop, on its part, has a Blur feature with a variety of types to choose from. One of the many ways to stylize your work as a Graphic designer is to blur it, thereby making the image look unclear or fuzzy.