Diavel222

Hello, Thank you for help! The first option unfortunately did not work. The layer was successfully copied, but adding a crop layer destroyed its functionality every time. Just to make sure I was doing it properly, I went and did it in Photo, then followed it in Designer with no luck. It was not until I did File > Edit in Photo that it finally worked. I think this reinforces, for people who do not have all of the apps, that this should be available in Designer by default and seems like needless feature sandboxing. If it can be so easily copied between apps, there is no reason these features should not just be there. If it can copy the filter layer over, do the processing to carry out the effect in that filter layer, and display the menus to edit the parameters, then it should just be in Designer, especially for UI development applications. I would like to see the "Live Filters" to be carried over to Designer. In the meantime, thank you very much for your solution! Much appreciated!

Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why that wasn't included in Designer?

I'll give it a look. Thank you!

Hello, I'm looking to design a website mock-up design, so would Affinity Publisher or Designer be more attuned that project and why? I have both to use, but only bought Publisher a few days ago, and I don't know if the mix of Designer and Photo in that would be better or appropriate for the task. Any guidance is appreciated! Thanks!

I would really like to be able to use the Gaussian layers or filter layers from Photo in Designer. Trying to achieve blur effects that react to all layers below it is quite clunky at the moment in Designer.

I actually saw this video before and I can't seem to get the Gaussian layer to appear like he did. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Hello, I want to be able to take a square (or any other shape) and blur everything behind it. I have a simpler technique working where a duplicated, blurred version of the original image is being cropped by an element in the layers panel so that as you drag it around, it is merely exposing parts of the Gaussian image on top of the clear one. I want to be able to have a higher layer respond to/recognize lower ones and blur them within its bounds. I was, for example, looking to design a frosted nav bar for a website that I will be building soon, but I want a way to blur the surroundings/elements below in my layout without duplicating and cropping. Is there some kind of layer blend mode settings that would let them interact in this way? Thanks much! Blur So Far.mov

Thank you for all the replies by the way! : ) If erase is a type of blend mode and will result in rasterization, is there a way to use two objects (one as a base, one to erase) and then "flatten" the end result to a curve? This would just make drawing a little easier instead of using the pen tool to make everything from scratch to prevent rasterization.

There is nothing under the "Effects" tab on any element. I am simply using the erase display mode to expose the transparent background.

Hello, I have a drawing that has all vectors. There are no raster/pixel elements whatsoever, and every assistive shape that Designer has to offer has been converted to curves. Literally everything is curves and I still can't export to a PDF without it rasterizing. According to a graphics designer whose been working with this stuff for 20 years knows that PDFs can preserve vector elements, so he needed my graphics for laser-engraving a piece of wood, and he uses Adobe Illustrator. We tried .eps, .psd, .pdf, and .svg, and all were rasterized on export. From what I've read, Affinity Designer's export module just doesn't seem to cut it in the production world and is half-baked compared to Adobe's. It appears buggy and cannot consistently output vectors, if you can even achieve that at all. Why is this? Every time we opened the file on his program, certain parts of my document were rasterized for no reason. To solve this, he had to use the "image trace" feature to vectorize my raster export that should have been infinitely precise curves on export to begin with. Why does a vector application not export vectors without rasterizing them? That's like Logic Pro X not being able to export to a .wav file! Any help is appreciated.

Hello, I am changing my document that I've been working on from the "Press" document type at 1440px by 900px to "Press" with the unit changed to inches, with an 11in width and 8in height. Once I do the conversion though, I get a strange purple square that covers by artwork around the perimeter of the document space, even in exported files. Any idea where this coming from? Thank you for the help! -Alan