# "Reset" blur filter
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/reset-blur-filter/14501
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/reset-blur-filter/14501 "2019-10-07T18:10:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kirillg](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kirillg)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/reset-blur-filter/14501/1 "2019-10-07T18:10:12Z")
My very first steps with Processing, and I couldn’t find the answer after Googling it for some time.
```auto
size(640, 360);
background(204, 153, 0);
smooth();
background(0);
noStroke();
fill(255,0,0);
ellipse(100,100,12,12);
filter( BLUR, 3 );
fill(255,230,230);
ellipse(100,100,6,6);
fill(255,0,0);
ellipse(120,120,12,12);
filter( BLUR, 3 );
fill(255,230,230);
ellipse(120,120,6,6);
```
This is my code. The two blocks paint a bright circle with emulated glow (by using a darker red with BLUR). But it looks like filter(BLUR, 3) is applied to everything before it. How can I have the two smaller ellipses not be blurred, and the two bigger ones be blurred?
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### Author:  [@kirillg](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kirillg)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/reset-blur-filter/14501/2 "2019-10-07T18:24:55Z")
This works - drawing the two ellipses to a separate image and then drawing the image twice. But probably this is not the most efficient if I want to render thousands of these “glowing” shapes.
```auto
background(0);
PGraphics pg = createGraphics(40, 40);
pg.beginDraw();
pg.smooth();
pg.noStroke();
pg.fill(255,0,0);
pg.ellipse(20,20,12,12);
pg.filter( BLUR, 3 );
pg.fill(255,230,230);
pg.ellipse(20,20,6,6);
pg.endDraw();
image(pg, 100, 100);
image(pg, 120, 120);
```
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### Author:  [@Tiemen](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Tiemen)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/reset-blur-filter/14501/3 "2019-10-09T21:34:33Z")
Hi there Kirillg, welcome to the forum.
A way to achieve what you want is by first drawing the two bigger ellipses before calling `filter(BLUR, 3)`, followed by drawing the two smaller ones right after. For example:
```auto
int size_ellipse = 192;
int size_glow = size_ellipse / 4;
size(640, 360);
background(204, 153, 0);
smooth();
background(0);
noStroke();
rectMode(CENTER);
fill(255, 0, 0);
ellipse(width * 0.25, height / 2, size_ellipse, size_ellipse);
fill(0, 0, 255);
ellipse(width * 0.75, height / 2, size_ellipse, size_ellipse);
filter(BLUR, 9);
fill(230, 230, 230, 150);
ellipse(width * 0.25, height / 2, size_glow, size_glow);
ellipse(width * 0.75, height / 2, size_glow, size_glow);
```
As you can see I’ve made some adjustments to your code. It might be a good exercise for you to figure out what these changes are and how these work (in case you didn’t know it already: the [reference page](https://processing.org/reference/) is a great place to gather such information).