Figma Tips: Blur Effect

Atharva Kulkarni
3 min readJul 10, 2019
Photo by Rose Elena on Unsplash

Figma is beating its way through to become a top player in UI/UX and Wireframing market. Today we would discuss two cool blur effects in Figma.

Frost Background effect

  1. Start by importing a sample image in Figma.
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

2. Now add a “rectangle” by pressing the rectangle icon(Shortcut : R).

3. Now, lets add a background blur to the rectangle. In the design settings tab on the right, change the fill transparency to 1% and add effect -> Background Blur with Blur amount as 35 (could be any value).

4. You get the below effect:

5. Now, add an Inner Shadow effect with the following settings:

6. Great! The frost pane is ready for you to add some content in it!

Layer-Blur Glow effect

  1. Start by importing a sample image in Figma.

2. Duplicate the layer and place it below the original layer.

3. Now select the duplicate layer and in the design properties, add a layer blur of 45.

4. Great! Now you have a cool background effect. Add some spice to suit your needs:

Hope you enjoyed the story. Post your images/links in the comments section and if you have any other questions, let me know!:) Until next time…

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Atharva Kulkarni

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