I like your way, but still too much work
Not because I'm lazy or what, but I have to edit a lot images and I feel it preety painful to do it one by one.
In paint.net, to blur the pic we have to make a selection at the pic, duplicate, and blur it, which has the result like Rick's way.
In photoshop or GIMP with blur tool, we can blur the image directly with the brush, and looks like the second example, but your way is still too much work. Isn't it easier to use blur tool like Adobe's. It's simpler
I'll be waiting for that
That's not what I meant. Smudge tool is different from the blur tool.
Look at the pic.
I looked at your link:
Smudge Tool -- No ETA.
What is No ETA?