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Blur without hurting outlines using FFmpeg smartblur

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For editors smoothing skin, sky or noise while keeping edges. You end with a softened clip tuned by radius, strength and threshold, or a sharpened one with a negative strength. Based on the FFmpeg filters manual and not run.

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Blur without hurting outlines using FFmpeg smartblur

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For editors smoothing skin, sky or noise while keeping edges. You end with a softened clip tuned by radius, strength and threshold, or a sharpened one with a negative strength. Based on the FFmpeg filters manual and not run.

Example

A hypothetical noisy portrait is run with a moderate radius and a positive threshold to see whether skin softens while eyelashes stay crisp; nothing was run.

Useful starting points

  • If edges also blur, a threshold of 0 is filtering the whole image; use a positive threshold.
  • A negative strength sharpens instead of blurring.
  • A larger radius is slower, and values outside the documented ranges are rejected.
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