7. The Menus / 7.7 The Filter Menu

7.7.10 Blur/Soften

The Soften filter reduces the contrast of an image, so that the content of the image becomes blurred.
You can use this filter, if you want to attract the attention of the viewer to an object in the foreground. Therefore, you use the soften filter on the background, in order to make it less eye catching.

Another field of use is to create a certain romantic touch by softening images.