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Blurred Colour Photo

Photography · Blur · Motion

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Figure smeared into colour
Square crop
Vertical blur
Wide frame
Cooler version

Recipe

GPT Image

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Updated 8 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A photograph of a person taken with a long exposure while the camera moved, smearing them into vertical bands of warm colour. Shapes just readable: one contour, the line of an edge, a bright window behind. Nothing sharp anywhere, highlights slightly blown, warm pink and amber dominating with a cool patch at one edge. Grainy 35mm film, no digital sharpening.

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Recommended settings

Size
1024 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Say nothing is sharp anywhere. A single crisp area ruins it.
  • 2Keep one shape just readable so it stays a photograph rather than an abstract.
  • 3Long exposure and camera movement, not a blur filter.

Things to try

Cool version

blues and greens instead of warm tones

Street

traffic and signage smeared at night

Two figures

overlapping smears of two people

Vertical drag

the movement strictly up and down

Rain on glass

the blur coming from water rather than motion

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