Gradual Blur in Illustrator

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April 2, 2019
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I want to add a blur to a block of text that gradually gets more and more blurry the further it gets. I have done this in photoshop by going into quick task mode and using a gradient tool to create a gaussian blur, but I can't find a way to do this in illustrator. Here is an example of what I want to do (the shadow in the background). I already have the gradient from dark to light. How would I do the blur in illustrator?

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Correct answer SJRiegel

I was able to get what I think you want by using two stacked copies of the text; one plain and one blurred.

I then put opposite gradients over each, and masked them in the Transparency Pallet.

barbara_a7746676

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You could separate each line of text.

Select just one line of text and Gaussian Blur

Apply the same effect to each line of text, and increase the blur radius a bit more for each piece of text.

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jacobjasterAuthor

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This does work in normal instances, but because I had a color gradient on all the text from bottom to top, I had trouble separating each letter without messing up the gradient. I will try again though.

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SJRiegelCorrect answer

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I was able to get what I think you want by using two stacked copies of the text; one plain and one blurred.

I then put opposite gradients over each, and masked them in the Transparency Pallet.

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