In the past I've seen scenes in documentaries containing a branded product which (I assume) didn't pay for product placement, so somehow they manage to subtly blur out its label in post production. I think I've seen a similar technique being used to subtly blur license plates.
Any idea how this effect is commonly produced? I don't think it's your run-of-the-mill Gaussian blur in Photoshop. I feel like it must be some clever use of a spot healing brush-like technique to "scramble" the product label in a subtle way so that it becomes very hard to read.
I cannot find any good examples of this right now, unfortunately.
lasso the object and set a feather value of several pixels so the edges arent distinct, then use gaussian blur on the selection.
With your lasso selection active, choose Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic with a high enough Cell size in the mosaic dialogue box to scramble the logo beyond recognition
