Using Blur Average

[tonyjt]

Hi,

Can anyone help. I've been trying to follow a YouTube tutorial video in which you need to make a selection and duplicate it to a new layer and then apply Blur-> Average.to get an average colour of the selected area. When I do this I get a transparent swatch, whereas on the tutorial the swatch is opaque. Attached is a screen shot in which is shown the original selection as well as the selection that has the blur applied.

Thanks

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, tonyjt said:

I've been trying to follow a YouTube tutorial video

It’s often helpful to have a link to the tutorial in question so that other users can see the exact steps you’re trying to follow. As you’ve indicated, the Average Blur filter should not result in transparency being introduced where there was none previously.

[Old Bruce]

Just guessing that the original selection may have had a serious amount of feathering going on.

[firstdefence]

9 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Just guessing that the original selection may have had a serious amount of feathering going on.

Any feathering will result in a translucent average blur, I tried this down to 1%

The average blur on the left has no feathering and the one on the right has 1% feathering. The selection far right marks where I took a selection from.

[tonyjt]

Thanks for your help. I hadn't notice that there was a large amount of feathering. It works perfectly now.