Create a Paint Splatter Effect

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ONCE, IF YOU WANTED TO PAINT IN NATURAL MEDIA, you did just that. Later, when computers were invented, you used Corel Painter. Now, natural media brushes are part of Photoshop, and you can smear, smudge, and blend your way across any image, creating something that’s halfway between the art of the photographer and the portrait artist.

This kind of dynamic distortion makes it easy to convey movement in a still image, but it’s easier to do so if there’s implied motion there already. Whether it’s a shot of an athlete making a jump mere mortals couldn’t