The blurred look seems to be quite common these days. I know that the Section Box stack can add a blur filter to the whole image, but I don’t think it can add a blur filter to half of the image.
You could cut the image where you want the blur, then use Sections Pro and a 2 column stack and put the images next to each other and have sections box use the blur filter.
@tav of BigWhiteDuck is planning on a site dedicated to showing what can be done with SectionsBox, I’m sure this and others from my Sandbox will be there, for now continue playing and see what you can create
I have now got a new domain set up that will be dedicated to sharing layouts and examples as @PaulRussam said. This will ensure that all the resources are in one place and easy to find. I will add some examples of this to kick things off (hopefully early this coming week).
I will post again here to let you know as soon as it is done.
Another example of a blurred background … just for the fun of it http://www.sandbox.russam.me/statics/
This time it’s set to ‘When in View’ so everytime you scroll it into view the animation will occur.
That’s a very challenging layout to blur the portion of the original image under the How We Brew section and make it scale and respond to a changing screen size.