Adobe Photoshop and Vegas Tutorial
Blur a picture background


First Select a Picture, I select the Vogue cover page with Madona.



Open the picture in PhotoShop and Press Ctrl+Atl+x


With the marker tool, go over the border

Then get the fill tool and click over Madona, you shoud get something like this


Then you can click Preview or Ok, and you will see that the background is gone


Don’t worry about the image now, it will be fine, because will be over the original one, save as a PST file and do the same with the original file, I mean save it as PST file, because Vegas use it with the Alfa layer.
If you are using PhotoShop CS Check the box for compatibility

and click Ok

Now open Vegas



Go to import media and import the original Madona PST file and the one with no background


Drag the original image to the video track. Insert a new video track and drag the image without background


Then Click in the VIDEO FX tab and look for the Gaussian Blur and drag Medium Blur over the original image and it will open the following window

Add a Key Frame at the end.


Click in the first Key Frame and replace the value in the box for 0.00 for Horizontal Range and Vertical Range



You can hit the pre-view and there you have it