# Blur everything on the stage

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blur-everything-on-the-stage/240957>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 8, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blur-everything-on-the-stage/240957 "2007-10-08T19:56:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![perfecthill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@perfecthill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/perfecthill)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blur-everything-on-the-stage/240957/1 "2007-10-08T19:56:28Z")

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Hi,

I’ve seen this effect a few times but I’m not sure how to do it efficiently. I want to blur everything on the stage except one movieclip. Is there a way to blur everything without being heavily processor intensive?  
has anyone done this before?

Any help would be great!