Blurs the image with individual horizontal and vertical controls. It’s fast, high quality and blurs outside the frame which removes the dark inward bleeding edges of most blurs.
Node Group
Filter.
Controls
Blur
Horizontal
The image is blurred by a fast, quality blur along the X-axis.
Vertical
The image is blurred by a fast, quality blur along the Y-axis.
Gang
The horizontal and vertical values can be ganged together.
Expand
Grows the DOD (Domain of Definition) to allow the image to expand outward and pull in transparent pixels. You would use this when blurring an image with an alpha channel and a small DOD, so the blur can spread outward without clipping against the edge of the DOD.