justafyde

Thanks Ego and Red. I tried the "Dodge and Burn" tool. It does what I want. However, It is very clunky - it feels like I'm on an old PC with a slow processor. My guess is that all the plugins will behave that way. The process is long winded and starting the tool overlays everything else, so multipurposing (switching functions quickly) is not possible. Once the actions of the plugin are done and you click okay it closes - at which point "undo" will undo everything. Anyways, for now I can complete my task. I still think a blur/feather tool is a needed new feature.

I looked into the plug-ins. Forgive my confusion - my understanding was that every plug-in would only give another filter? The "Smudge" tool, which I specifically looked at had very little to explain what it does and how it is meant to function, however the way I read it the result would only "smear" some part of an image in a given direction. I'll see about the "Dodge and Burn".

Many times I have needed my brush tool to do a generic Gaussian Blur just a few pixels. Currently, the only way to do this is to select an area, then use Effect - Blurs - Gaussian - select radius - OK. I would very much like this to be an added "Blending Mode" option to the Brush tool, or better still, have this as a separate Tool entirely.