I have to do something for work and I am a bit stuck on how to achieve this. Unfortunately I can not show the photo I am working on but will do my best to explain it. I am familiar with all the blur filters in photoshop and have tried and few things but can’t seem to come up with something perfect.

Picture a bowl of peanuts, now picture hanging a pencil over that bowl on the left hand side. The pencil is hanging from a chain.

The pencil needs to look as though it’s swinging on the inner rim of the bowl in a circular motion. Basically a motion blur around the bowl.

I know this can be achieved through certain photographic techniques of taking the photo at different intervals on the same piece of film or something like that but unfortunately that is not the route they are taking.

I have tried copying the pencil to various locations around the rim of the bowl and added a motion blur but it doesn’t really give it a smooth circle around the bowl.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions?

Also I should mention the angle the photo is taken at is not directly above the bowl and not on the side. It is in between those two angles. Like an overhead/side shot if that makes sense.

Topics: photography, graphic design, Photoshop, photo editing, image manipulation