There was a recent discussion about this on the Quartz Composer developer
list. I would do a search and peruse through that.

That said, the method described here has worked well for me:

http://kineme.net/forum/Discussion/DevelopingCompositions/TiltshiftPluginAEFinalcutMotion#comment-14202

Examine the Core Image Kernel in the VariableBlur-Circle_03c2.qtz
attachment.

Replace with a linear gradient instead of a circular gradient.

Best regards,
George Toledo

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Keith Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to fake tilt-shift photography (limited focal depth, making
> each end of the image out of focus/blurred), starting with an input of
> a 2d image.
>
> The best approach I can find so far is to apply a blur, and then Blend
> with Mask, with a mask as a gradient…
> as described here http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ke_takahashi/20081006/p2
>
> However it's not really the result I'm after, because halfway you have
> a composite of both the in-focus image and the out-of-focus image.
>
> I'm not even sure how to go about doing this, aside from learning how
> to code a blur filter that applies a different radius blur to each
> pixel based on the corresponding pixel in a gradient image.
>
> Keith.
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