When to blur

[Sam165]

Damien, I am doing a project where I am photographing in a hospital and sometimes monitors of patient information gets in the picture.  I want to blur this due to patient confidentiality.  So I am using Gaussian blur but I wonder where in my workflow I should do this?  Or does it matter?  Thanks.

[Damien Symonds]

That's such a good question!

It doesn't matter when you do it.  Early or late in the workflow, no big deal.

If you only remember it at the end of the edit, that's okay.  Just return to the Background layer, duplicate it, and blur.

[Sam165]

Ok.  That's great.  Thank you so much.