I would like to blur or soften the edges of some of my photographs. My old 
Home Publisher used to do this as there was a "soften" option in the EDIT 
section. I have worked out how to use the fill effects to get  a similar 
result but it doesn't seem to work on inserted photos or when I insert a 
photo into an auto shape. Any suggestions??

Home Publishing and Publisher are two different programs. You will need a 
photo editing program to do that. I recommend Adobe Photoshop Elements but 
there are others.

-- 

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


"RJ" <RJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>I would like to blur or soften the edges of some of my photographs. My old
> Home Publisher used to do this as there was a "soften" option in the EDIT
> section. I have worked out how to use the fill effects to get  a similar
> result but it doesn't seem to work on inserted photos or when I insert a
> photo into an auto shape. Any suggestions?? 

If you have Word 2007 there is a soften edge utility for photos. Once you 
soften the edges you can copy/paste into Publisher.

-- 
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"RJ" <RJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:24B1B698-3A70-47C3-9764-7133E55BBA23@microsoft.com...
>I would like to blur or soften the edges of some of my photographs. My old
> Home Publisher used to do this as there was a "soften" option in the EDIT
> section. I have worked out how to use the fill effects to get  a similar
> result but it doesn't seem to work on inserted photos or when I insert a
> photo into an auto shape. Any suggestions??