Effect Request: Blur

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Firefox and Opera both support SVG filters.  Blur is a pretty powerful
feature of vector graphics and help with the photo-realism.  A simple blur
effect would be nice.

How to weave this into the UI, I'm not sure yet.  What I'm thinking at the
moment:

- an Effects button (in the select/multiselect tool panels)
- Effects button brings up a small popup div (with lightbox effect like
Source Editor)
- have a Blur tab (only one at start)
- simple spinner control for the amount of gaussian blur
- adding the Blur effect needs to be undo-able
- create a defs element if not created, create a filter element if needed
(try to reuse if possible?)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by codedr...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2009 at 3:44

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Blurs are nice, but be careful not to implement Inkscape's filter UI. I think 
it's horrible. Something like the filters 
UI from DrawIt ( http://bohemiancoding.com/drawit/index.html , see the 
screenshots, look under Special 
Attributes) would be nice, but I'm not enough of a programmer to see if it's 
impossible or not.

Original comment by wna...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 9:56

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Actually if we are going to do blur any time soon, we could do a very simple
implementation of a field/slider/pulldown thing that we have for opacity and 
stick it
in the contextual panel for now.

However, no shipping WebKit browser has turned on SVG Filters yet (though it's 
in the
nightlies).

Original comment by codedr...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:59

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Original comment by codedr...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2010 at 12:07

• Changed title: Effect Request: Blur

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I think it would be really nice to get some ideas for simple UI in the 2.5 
timeframe.
 Blur is very sexy!

Original comment by codedr...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2010 at 7:10

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Added basic control for this in r1508. Undo/redo does not yet work.

Original comment by adeve...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2010 at 6:41

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: NeededFor-2.5
• Removed labels: NeededFor-Future

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While I've made undo/redo mostly work in r1509, it still doesn't work right 
when 
changing from one (non-zero) value to another using the slider. Changing from 
say 3 
to 5 and selecting "Undo" makes the blur disappear rather than return to 3. 
However, 
if you simply type in the numbers it works fine.

codedread, history expert, could you take a look at this? :)

Original comment by adeve...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 2:17

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Closing this, remaining bug is now issue 544.

Original comment by adeve...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 3:37

• Changed state: Fixed