What is the preferred method of smudging portions of images, thereby
hiding non-public info?

tbar wrote:
> What is the preferred method of smudging portions of
> images, thereby hiding non-public info?

When I don't want the World War II Censor appearance, I like a heavy
blur. Duplicate the layer, apply a heavy Gaussian blur to the bottom
layer, then use a soft eraser brush on the top layer to remove the
sharp text and reveal the blur.
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Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com

> tbar wrote: 
>
> When I don't want the World War II Censor appearance, I like a heavy
> blur. Duplicate the layer, apply a heavy Gaussian blur to the bottom
> layer, then use a soft eraser brush on the top layer to remove the
> sharp text and reveal the blur.

Thanks.  That works nicely.