Blur

A blur softens whatever lies beneath it — a face, a number plate, a name — without drawing anything of its own. On a document, press Blur in the Add menu and it lands selected, with its Blur tab open along the bottom; move and resize its box over what you want hidden. On a picture or a video, the Blur card in a privacy Mask does the same job and can follow a face as it moves. A blur's tab holds its settings directly, with no settings button: how strong the blur is, how softly its edge fades, and its shape. On a picture or a video its strength runs from 1 to 100; on a document page it is a radius in pixels.

A blur takes no effects and no border, because it shows what lies beneath it rather than ink of its own.

Where you can use a blur

• Image — Groups
• Video — Groups
• Document — Groups

What you can do with a blur you made

Once its strength or its edge differs from a new blur's, a star at the end of the Intensity row on its Blur tab stars the blur whole, and a starred blur can be put into another picture, video or document:

Star · Copy

Blur

• Intensity — How strongly the blur softens what lies beneath it: on a document as a radius in pixels, on an image or a video from 0 to 100.
• Feather — How far the blur’s edge fades into the sharp picture around it, from a hard edge to a soft one.
• Shape — Whether the blur covers a rectangle or an ellipse.
  • Rectangle · Ellipse