How can you properly blur an image using CSS3 without fading the edges or cropping the image?
DEMO
The issue the green BG show thru:
HTML:
<div id="bg_img" classid="blink_me"></div>
CSS:
/*regular way of doing it*/
body{
background-color: #0F0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#bg_img{
filter: blur(50px); /*Set amount of blur, px units are bad when re-scaling the window size */
-webkit-filter: blur(50px); /*Set amount of blur, px units are bad when re-scaling the window size */
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-image: url(http://www.patan77.com/wallpaper/3d_cube_explosion_patan77.jpg); /*background image*/
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
}
This is the solution I came up with, its a bit of a "hack" and bit messy, but it works.
(at least for me on chrome )
The way I did it was to first create a 3x3 grid and "mirror tile them"with the scale also and offset everything slightly and then I zoomed in to 300% but here is the strange part to actually get it to work I needed to make sure it rendered the tiles outside of the div so I need to have a hidden animated div (#loading_dot in the code) at the correct z-index, forcing it to render all.
//tip: use vh or vw instead of px for the blur scale.
DEMO
The image mirror tiled
HTML:
<a href='http://www.patan77.com' id='text_overlay' class='blink_me' target='_blank'>Patan77.com</a>
<div id="loading_dot" class="blink_me"></div>
<div id="wrapper0">
<div id="wrapper1">
<div id="wrapper2">
<div id="bg1" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg2" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg3" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg4" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg5" class="bg_img">Visible DIV</div>
<div id="bg6" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg7" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg8" class="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg9" class="bg_img"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body{
background-color: #0F0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#text_overlay{
position:absolute;
z-index: 20;
outline: none;
text-decoration: none;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #FFF;
font-size: 3em;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-right: -50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%)
}
.bg_img{
position:absolute;
background-image: url(http://www.patan77.com/wallpaper/3d_cube_explosion_patan77.jpg); /*background image*/
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
width: calc(100% /3);
height: calc(100% /3);
}
#wrapper0{
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow:hidden;
}
#wrapper1{
position:absolute;
width: 300%; /* 1 change these to 100% to zoom out*/
height: 300%; /* 2 change these to 100% to zoom out*/
top: -50%; /* 3 change these to 0 to zoom out*/
left: -50%; /* 4 change these to 0 to zoom out*/
z-index: 10;
}
#wrapper2{
filter: blur(6vh); /*Set amount of blur use vh units*/
-webkit-filter: blur(6vh); /*Set amount of blur use vh units*/
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 10;
}
#bg1{
position:absolute;
left: calc(-100% /6);
top: calc(-100% /6);
-webkit-transform: scale(-1,-1);
transform: scale(-1,-1);
}
#bg2{
left:calc(100% /6);
top: calc(-100% /6);
-webkit-transform: scale(1,-1);
transform: scale(1,-1);
}
#bg3{
left:calc(100% /2);
top: calc(-100% /6);
-webkit-transform: scale(-1,-1);
transform: scale(-1,-1);
}
#bg4{
-webkit-transform: scale(-1,1);
transform: scale(-1,1);
left: calc(-100% /6);
top:calc(100% /6);
}
#bg5{
left:calc(100% /6);
top:calc(100% /6);
color: #FFF;
font-size:50px;
text-align: center;
}
#bg6{
-webkit-transform: scale(-1,1);
transform: scale(-1,1);
left:calc(100% /2);
top:calc(100% /6);
}
#bg7{
-webkit-transform: scale(-1,-1);
transform: scale(-1,-1);
left:calc(-100% /6);
top:calc(100% /2);
}
#bg8{
-webkit-transform: scale(1,-1);
transform: scale(1,-1);
left:calc(100% /6);
top:calc(100% /2);
}
#bg9{
-webkit-transform: scale(-1,-1);
transform: scale(-1,-1);
left:calc(100% /2);
top:calc(100% /2);
}
.blink_me {
-webkit-animation-name: blinker;
-webkit-animation-duration: 1s;
-webkit-animation-timing-function: ease;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
-moz-animation-name: blinker;
-moz-animation-duration: 1s;
-moz-animation-timing-function: ease;
-moz-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
animation-name: blinker;
animation-duration: 1s;
animation-timing-function: ease;
animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}
@-moz-keyframes blinker {
0% { opacity: 1.0; }
50% { opacity: 0.5; }
100% { opacity: 1.0; }
}
@-webkit-keyframes blinker {
0% { opacity: 1.0; }
50% { opacity: 0.5; }
100% { opacity: 1.0; }
}
@keyframes blinker {
0% { opacity: 1.0; }
50% { opacity: 0.5; }
100% { opacity: 1.0; }
}
Solution 2
A bit more viable option, have layer two images one image behind that's also blurred but scaled up slightly and have those in a wrapper element with overflow:hidden;
DEMO
HTML:
<div id="bg_img_wrapper">
<div id="bg_img"></div>
<div id="bg_img_scaled"></div>
</div>
CSS:
body{
background-color: #0F0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#bg_img{
filter: blur(3vh);
-webkit-filter: blur(3vh);
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-image: url(http://www.patan77.com/wallpaper/3d_cube_explosion_patan77.jpg); /*background image*/
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
z-index:3;
}
#bg_img_scaled{
filter: blur(3vh);
-webkit-filter: blur(3vh);
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-image: url(http://www.patan77.com/wallpaper/3d_cube_explosion_patan77.jpg); /*background image*/
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
-webkit-transform: scale(1.2);
transform: scale(1.2);
z-index:2;
}
#bg_img_wrapper{
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}