1. A method comprising: receiving image content; generating, by an image manipulation application, blurred image content by applying a blurring operation to a portion of the received image content along a blur trajectory; sampling, by the image manipulation application, a plurality of pixels from a plurality of positions in the received image content along the blur trajectory; generating, by the image manipulation application, a simulated strobe image based on the plurality of pixels sampled from the received image content and at least some of the blurred image content.