masterkatten

Hi! I'm trying to add an black outer glow to a shape thats located on a colored background in affinity designer, but it doesn't seem to work! When I put the same shape directly to the artboard, then the black outer glow appears, but as soon as i try to move it to a colored background it disappears. Am i doing something wrong or does affinity simply not support a black glow on a colored background?

Hi! I've just started using Affinity designer and are at the moment working on an event-poster. I want to incorporate a picture in the poster as well as my own drawings and text. The only problem is when i try to erase the background of my picture using the "erase brush tool" the entire picture becomes blurry. Is there a better way to make the picture transparent? Am I doing something wrong?