[Gimp-user] Applying large blur only to selection

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 08:12 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
 
> > Copy your selection, paste it to a new layer and blur that layer. Does
> > that give the desired result?
> 
> I don't believe so.   I tried it.   It still used pixels outside the
> selection in computing the new pixel values in the desired region.  In
> this case, those values were zero, so that lightened the region at the
> edges.

Zeros would not lighten the edges, but darken them. What Blur did you
use at all?


Sven