blurring one edge

[jen0dorf]

Hi

the attached jpeg shows a current project I need to blur the black to red edge whilst leaving the others crisp.

Can someone point me in the right direction asto how to blur the one edge

thanks

Ian

[ss-kalm]

Ian,

I would use a circular gradient fill from black to red - Edit the profile to get the required "blurring".

[angelize]

I did this one by drawing 1 red ellipse, then duplicate it and make it black and align as required. Next select both and apply clipview. now you can feather the black ellipse and everything else remains crisp.

[HayTay]

Ian,

I tried both methods suggested by Keith and Frances and produced acceptable results either way. My personal preference at the moment is the two ellipse, feather and clipview arrangement as shown above by Frances. See my attached picture. The 'feather' shown on my black ellipse is approx 35-40 pixels wide.

As Keith demonstrated his circular fill technique also works. I had to do a lot more fill 'tweaking' before I produced something I was happy with, though. I added some extra color control points and had to manually adjust the colors to get rid of a couple of light color bands towards the red side of the fill before I was happy with the graphic. My results using Keith's fill method is also shown below and displays a more gradual fade from red to black.

Let us know which method you decide to implement. Or maybe someone will come up with another method or two. Maybe something along the lines of a blend between a couple of ellipses or other shapes.

IHTH,
HayTay

[jen0dorf]

Hi

thanks for that, works a treat.

Strange I suppose everyone has their favourite tools and hence are familair with them. Clip view is just not a tool I have experimented with.

Off to play with clipview

cheers

Ian

[jen0dorf]

I like clipview a lot! wish I'd discovered it a long time ago :-)

Ian