If only you know what could be possible with just the free version.

Blur, Tint, Opacity, Glow all sounds astounding to newer users of the app but when you know how to use the app fully than for the most part you don’t need any of them.

If you use a gradient ellipse and position it perfectly enough with a smaller clone of itself you can get a transitioning glow that looks better than glow and causes little to no lag as they are just technically 4 nodes.

If you want opacity than in some cases you can blend the colour of what you want to turn transparent to the colour of the thing behind it and transition the colours and that is an artificial opacity filter.

You can also takes things a step further with using small dots or triangles to create a thicker part to a shape and fade it to smaller to give the illusion of a gradient that has no colour as one if it’s gradients.

If you want blur you can follow the same rules as the artificial opacity filter except instead of using the transitioning colours frame by frame. Use it behind the stickfigure and transition the colours bit by bit until it looks like the blur filter.

Although for Ralphs sake i’d just say you should get Pro. It may also take far too long to set up all these filters with ease and success.