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Why doesn't InDesign have a gaussian blur filter?

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July 20, 2020
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It seems most adobe programs have it, why doesn't ID have a blur filter? It has all other filters necessary to create a nice layout without having to change an image in it's original source, but blurring is not there. Would be very useful for it to have it. If crappy Microsoft Powerpoint and Word have a blur filter, it seems ridiculous that Adobe ID doesn't.

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Correct answer JonathanArias

sounds like you have a feature request, here you go:

https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

please add your requests and if there is enough demand for that feature, you may see it in the future.

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Laubender

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Hi JCIAndyM,

you could have both, a layer with the original pixels and a duplicate on top of it with a Gaussian Blur applied.

Both layers within one Photoshop file. After placing the psd file you could turn on or off the layer with the blur.

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Uwe Laubender

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JonathanAriasCorrect answer

Legend

sounds like you have a feature request, here you go:

https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

please add your requests and if there is enough demand for that feature, you may see it in the future.

Andy MassariAuthor

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Thank you Jonathan.

BobLevine

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First Word and Powerpoint are not crappy. They are tools for a very specific purpose.

So is InDesign and so is Photoshop. Would you hire a carpenter that showed up with only a hammer?

Andy MassariAuthor

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Bob, but I don't know what that has to do with the price of rice in China. I apologize if my question sounds a bit rude, but it's a legitimate question regarding the effects palette that has everything but blur. ID even has bevel and emboss which I've never used in ID as an experienced designer. And I use Powerpoint for presentations often and I'm always amazed on how many effects they have put into it, knowing that 80% of the app users are noncreative executives. Of course I can go into PSD and blur the image and save it as a different name and re-import it into ID and place again etc.. I do that all the time. I'm asking, if ID is capable of having that option, why doesn't it. Maybe a developer can answer that question, but thank you for trying.

rob day

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I'm asking, if ID is capable of having that option, why doesn't it. Maybe a developer can answer that question, but thank you for trying.

InDesign doesn’t have any image editing features that alters and saves the linked image’s pixels. It would be a slippery slope—why no lens blur, unsharp mask, sharpen edges, color correction tools, layer effects, etc? And the image would have to be embedded, or the disk version would have to be resaved (to what format?), both options would create problems. Applying a gaussian blur to an embedded 2MB might not present a problem, but what if the file is 2GB?

Derek Cross

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You can "round-trip" between InDesign and Photoshop to apply any effects you may want. Horses for courses.

Andy MassariAuthor

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Thanks Derek - I think I replied to this under Bob Levine's answer...

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