Thx Mike - yes it can be done to simulate all kinds of filters using different effects - eg. soft focus the outside of the image or radial blur it to give the effect of zooming in while shooting etc.
I am sure all the same tools are available in the other progs. named something different maybe but do the same job.

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And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
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