Blur with gradient tool / Lens blur

Hi everybody,
I want to make some blur effects like miniature effect or open apperature lens blur.
Currently I'm using the gradient tool with negative sharpness. But I think in 100% zoom, the effect looks a litte bit like on/off. Or is the visible effect just non-linear??
Furthermore it would be create to simulate a lense blur effect in the corners. Currently I have to add at minimum 4 gradients, one in each corner. That's no effective
Otherwise it would be possible to implementate a radial gradient mask additionally to the normal linear gradient. Also a reflected gradient mask, would be useful.
Lightroom is great!!
Thanks,
Leschi

-51 to -100 sharpness is lens blur. It's power is limited by the amount of time it takes to calculate this sort of effect - bigger = longer.

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