How to use Blur Filters in Procreate

In this video we'll take a look at the different blur filters that we can use in Procreate. If we open our layers we have the main scene, we have a flat composite and the robot claw, all on separate layers. Let's select the main scene as our primary layer and head across to adjustments and it's here we have our different blur filters. We could apply a blur to a selected area of the layer but for this example we'll just apply the blur to the entirety of the layer. We'll make a start with the Gaussian blur. For this filter we can slide with one finger left and right to adjust the blur amount. Gaussian blur creates a nice uniform blur and can be incredibly handy for creating depth of field effects. We can reset our filter effects at the bottom here. Let's go ahead now and try the next blur filter. For this one we'll use the robot claw layer. Back to our adjustments, this time let's take a look at motion blur. When using motion blur wherever we touch is the point of control. By moving around that point we change the angle of the blur and by moving away or towards that point we adjust the blur amount. Lifting away will commit the filter but we can touch to retry as many times as we like. Back in our layers we have this flat composite of the entire image. Let's unhide this, select it, jump back to adjustments and let's take a look at perspective blur. We have two control types for perspective blur, positional and directional. Let's start with positional. For this we can drag left and right to adjust the blur amount but we also have this vanishing point that the blur radiates out from. We can drag this vanishing point anywhere in our workspace. Now let's try directional perspective. We can adjust the blur amount just as before and drag to place our vanishing point but now we get this directional arrow within our vanishing point. We can drag this arrow around to adjust the angle that the blur will favor. The further we drag away from the arrow then the more tightly focused the blur will be in that direction.