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I have an image with arbitrary area (the boundary is shown in gray):

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I would like to blur just the image within boundaries.

Ordinary blur causes the background proliferating to image and vice versa. This results in dark areas near boundaries of the image:

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One simple solution would be to create a binary (0/255) mask of the area you want to blur. Then blur the source image BITWISE AND mask, blur the mask with the same filter and divide them. As pseudocode:

(filter(source & mask) / filter(mask)) & mask
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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks. This is equivalent to blurring both image layer and alpha mask layer, right? $\endgroup$
    – Libor
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 0:08
  • $\begingroup$ I see it as a filter that only averages over the area inside the mask. But yes, you can also see it as blurring a premultilpied alpha image, then convert back to normal RGBA. $\endgroup$
    – Niki Estner
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 9:17

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