Create your own feathers - part 4

Your image should now look like this.

Now set this layer mode to DIFFERENCE. To do this click on LAYER 1 COPY to highlight it, then click on the NORMAL level and then from the pop out screen select DIFFERENCE.

Now click on LAYER 1 COPY to highlight it and then RIGHT CLICK on your mouse and from the pop up menu select MERGE DOWN.

Now click FILTER then NOISE and then ADD NOISE and from the menu box that will then appear. In this box set the following settings:

AMOUNT: 12
GAUSSIAN
MONOCHROMATIC

Once you have set these, click OK

Now use the RECTANGULAR MARQUE TOOL to select the right half of your feather. Now click FILTER then BLUR then MOTION BLUR and use the following settings:

ANGLE: 61
DISTANCE: 20 PIXELS

And then click OK