Identifying previously-blurred areas for creating a blur effect for an image

A system comprising:

• a memory to store an image and a blurred area previously created for a first selected area of the image;
• and
• a processing device coupled with the memory to:
• receive input representing a selection of a second area of the image;
• determine whether the second selected area of the image corresponds to the blurred area previously created for the first selected area of the image, the blurred area previously created for the first selected area of the image having a size that is less than a size of the image;
• and
• responsive to determining that the second selected area of the image corresponds to the blurred area previously created for the first selected area of the image, replace the second selected area of the image with a corresponding portion of the blurred area previously created for the first selected area of the image.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoding instructions thereon that, in response to execution by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by the processing device, input representing a selection of a first area of an image;
• determining, by the processing device, whether the first selected area of the image corresponds to a blurred area previously created for a second selected area of the image, the blurred area previously created for the second selected area of the image having a size that is less than a size of the image;
• and
• responsive to determining that the first selected area of the image corresponds to the blurred area previously created for the second selected area of the image, replacing, by the processing device, the first selected area of the image with a corresponding portion of the blurred area previously created for the second selected area of the image.