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Photoshop Zoom Tutorial

I'm sure you've seen it before. That cool zoom effect sites use to make cool graphics. You want to do that too, but you can't figure it out. Well then, I can help you! (Scroll down to the end of this tutorial to see the effect)

1. First open photoshop and make a new image the size you want the effect to be. For this tutorial I'll use the size, 100px x 100px. (Before proceeding make sure the colour is black) Now that you have the size you want, go up to Filter, Render, then Clouds. You image should look like this so far.

2. Next, go up to Filter, Pixelate, Mezzotint, and make sure you pick fine dots. Now your image will look like this.

3. Now for the best part. The zooming part. Click Filter, Blur, Radial Blur. Make the amount 100, the blur method zoom, and the quality best. Now click OK. You image should look like this. Now you've successfully done the zooming technique! If you want to change the colour of the zoom, check out our colour change tutorial.