Blur image effect

[AndyD]

HI,
I wondered whether there was a quick way to blur part of an image? I have a photo of a shopfront and rather than crop the image I thought I would simply blur the neighbouring shops/buildings as they are pretty ghastly looking. Is there a tool or technique anyone could recommend please?

[gwpriester]

Make a clone of the image, blur the image and apply a circular transparency.

[gwpriester]

Here's an example

[AndyD]

Thanks Gary, but how did you blur the second image...? I haven't blurred anything ever... or not since I used psp.

[gwpriester]

Photo Tool > Blur Sharpness.

The maximum blur with the slider is -100 but you can manually enter a negative number. I used -300 which is a moderate amount of blur. -600 would be even more blurred.

[hseiken]

Photo Tool > Blur Sharpness.

The maximum blur with the slider is -100 but you can manually enter a negative number. I used -300 which is a moderate amount of blur. -600 would be even more blurred.

Wow, never knew you could go 'out of slider bounds' on that. Are there any other tools which allow stepping outside the 'suggested range'?

[AndyD]

Thanks for all this very interesting information.

[ss-kalm]

Wow, never knew you could go 'out of slider bounds' on that. Are there any other tools which allow stepping outside the 'suggested range'?

Quite a few of the tools take numeric input which is outside slider range. I believe that a lot of the numeric input has a 0-999 range ... working from memory again. Always dangerous.

[Acorn]

Andy, what Xara application are you using? "Xara 4" is in your About Me detail.

There are blurs in Live effects and there are blurs under Photo Filter Presets.

You can blur with displaced and scaled transparencies of an image.

You can blur with a CSS3 style:

<style>#blur {
-webkit-filter: blur(10px);
-moz-filter: blur(10px);
-o-filter: blur(10px);
-ms-filter: blur(10px);
filter: blur(10px);
}
</style>

Acorn

[AndyD]

I am using Xara PGD10.
I'll have a toy with the suggestions later.
Thanks.