#blur text

hello nonnie ! for anyone who doesn’t know, anon is referring to this a.c.e gifset where i blurred out logos & text to keep the focus on our favourite boys.

i won’t give a full giffing tutorial in this post — just for blurring ! but if you’d like that later, let me know.

so first, you convert your mp4 into a smart layer. you can crop and resize the gif before anything else — but make sure you do your blurring before you sharpen & colour the gif.

what you want to do is count how many objects you want to blur. for the first gif i did with wow & byeongkwan, there are 3 objects i want to blur. here and here:

and later in the gif, here:

so because there are three objects i’m going to blur, i’ll duplicate my smart object layer three times. my layers will then look something like this:

for each of these layers, you’ll use filter>blur>gaussian blur to add a blur effect to them. you’ll get a popup where you can adjust the strength as you see fit:

i set mine at around 3.5 but it’s really down to personal preference. after your layer is blurred, you’re going to use the rectangle selection tool to select the part of the gif where the first object is, and then use this selection to create a vector on the layer. for example, i select my first object:

then create a vector with this button, so it looks like this:

and then your gif should look like this !

if this doesn’t look right, you may need to hide the above layers for now so that your blurred one is visible.

you’ll repeat this process for each object you need to blur out ! and if the object doesn’t last for the entire gif, like this first one i’ve done, you can simply edit its video layer on the timeline so that it only spans the required amount of time. for example, my first one looks like this compared to the entire gif:

by doing this, your blur will only last as long as the text its meant to block out.

so there you have it ! after you repeat this process for every object, you can sharpen your original gif layer & then colour it as you see fit. just remember to add any adjustment layers above all of these blur layers too, so that the colouring stays consistent.