I usually dont blur my own plates when I post pics of my cars, but Ive had customers (Im a detailer) ask for a blurring of their plates. My problem? I have no idea how to blur the plates out. Instead I have been just placing a white box over the plate which works, though also detracts from the picture.

If anyone can shed some light on this for me, I would appreciate it.

i dont know which one of your three threads to answer you in, but there is a "blur" tool in photoshop. give that a shot

i dont know which one of your three threads to answer you in, but there is a "blur" tool in photoshop. give that a shot
Thanks. The "server was busy" during my posting, so apparently by refreshing the "processing" page it posted the message multiple times.

Ill delete the others.

Anyone else have other ways to do this...Ive seen some people that manage to swirl the license plates?

if you want to do the swirl thing. go to filter menu, then "liquify". pretty self explanitory from there

theres like 100 ways to blur out the plate. you can select it and try filter>blur>motion blur. or filter>liquefy. or just use the smudge tool. theres endless ways to take it out

I use blur tool, or Motion Blur

You can also pixelate it (transform it into larger blocks)

there are literally DOZENS of ways. My favorite way to do it, when I'm doing a chop for a customer of some sort, is #7 on my image here. What I do is take a selection over the plate numbers, fill it in with the background color of the plate, then replace the numbers with the your name or your company name to look professional.

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/1830/platesaj6.jpg