MacNN | blur News http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us blur, Latest News, Headlines, Stories; http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ SmoothKit 2 adds new blur techniques, more http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/16/smoothkit.2.adds.new.blurs/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0802/16-smoothkit-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />RE:Vision Effects recently unveiled SmoothKit 2, a set of plug-ins designed to smooth images with user-directed controls, and feature-sensitive methods. The kit consists of nine filters which allow the user to blur images without blurring edges, sharpen with less ringing, reduce image defects, reduce jaggies, and more. A newly added Z-Blur filter provides depth of field effects using depth maps fr... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/16/smoothkit.2.adds.new.blurs/ Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:45:00 GMT