Help with Blur, please!

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Apr 28, 2004
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Hi:

My first time in this forum…

I have to "blur" the edges of 180 JPEG image files… 180..! (I hope I am using the right term, blur: smooth the image towards the edge, so no straight edge is visible)

The only way I know how to do this with Adobe Photoshop (5.5) is by using the "eraser" tool, with the brush’s hardness at 0% and diameter large, and then drag the mouse over the edges several times until the blurring effect is obtained… repeat this process several times for each edge… and I have 180 images..!

All these images are square (in case this helps). I also have Adobe Illustrator (8.0) in case this program can do it better… did I mention I have 180 images..?!

Please, help..! Reply directly to my Email since I
don’t frequent this newsgroup…

I appreciate it; thanks again.

Hugo Acosta
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arrooke1
Apr 28, 2004
Hi:

My first time in this forum…

I have to "blur" the edges of 180 JPEG image files… 180..! (I hope I am using the right term, blur: smooth the image towards the edge, so no straight edge is visible)

The only way I know how to do this with Adobe Photoshop (5.5) is by using the "eraser" tool, with the brush’s hardness at 0% and diameter large, and then drag the mouse over the edges several times until the blurring effect is obtained… repeat this process several times for each edge… and I
have
180 images..!

All these images are square (in case this helps). I also have Adobe Illustrator (8.0) in case this program can do it better… did I mention I have 180 images..?!

Please, help..! Reply directly to my Email since I
don’t frequent this newsgroup…

I appreciate it; thanks again.

Hugo Acosta

Place all your images in the same folder. Use the vignette action. It’s pre-set in your action palette. If it isn’t suitable, you can record a new action.
Use: File > Automate > Batch to perform this action on the entire folder of images. See your manual for further info.
Why would you post a question & not return here for an answer? Keith.
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tacitr
May 3, 2004
I have to "blur" the edges of 180 JPEG image files… 180..! (I hope I am using the right term, blur: smooth the image towards the edge, so no straight edge is visible)

You mean "vignette." "Blur" means making the image look out of focus.

There are a couple of ways you can do this. The easiest is Photoshop’s built-in Vignette action. You can tell Photoshop to do this to every image in a folder, then get up and walk away from the computer and let it do its thing.

If you want more control, do each vignette yourself using a layer mask. You’ll have to do it by hand–make the background a layer, make a selection around the inside of each image, feather the selection, save the selection as a layer mask–but you’ll have greater control over how it looks. If all 180 images are the same size, you can apply the same layer mask to all of them.

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