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Hello,

 I'm a bit confused about applying shadows. I wanted to apply a double shadow to a single object to achieve the effect as in the image attached (Using Sketch). It doesn't seem that it's possible to add two shadows to a single object so I duplicated the object, changed the shadow color and "angle" but still I did not get the desired result.
How can achieve that?

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Like this?

bevel.jpg

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54 minutes ago, Abdo23 said:

add two shadows to a single object

In your sample is one Outer Shadow and one Outer Glow, which fx can set.

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In Adobe Photoshop CC you can add as many drop shadows as you like, this gives you a massive range of effects that can be achieved not to mention all the other fx that can be duplicated.
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In Affinity Photo you can only add one outer shadow per object.

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Add your first shadow as normal

Then group the object (it will be the only object in the group)

You can now apply a second shadow to the group.

If you need a third shadow just group the group again and apply a shadow to that group

etc etc etc

 

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That’s a really great tip carl123, thanks for sharing that.
My attached image shows an example using that tip to have two drop shadows. (Note: The white one needs a different Blend Mode – to the default Multiply – to be seen using the colours I used).

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10 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

Like this?

bevel.jpg

Thanks, this method gave me a close result to what I wanted, but still not flexible enough.

8 hours ago, GarryP said:

That’s a really great tip carl123, thanks for sharing that.
My attached image shows an example using that tip to have two drop shadows. (Note: The white one needs a different Blend Mode – to the default Multiply – to be seen using the colours I used).

Annotation 2020-01-06 100125.png

I tried this method but still wasn't what I originally wanted, would you please ( if it's not much of a bother ) share the shadow values you used?

Why didn't Affinity just use the common method of applying shadows with x,y and blur?
 

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Well the OP probably means a feature like this, where you can also apply effects multiple times (not only stroke/fill) ...

dropshadow2.thumb.jpg.483cde3dde441d28993b933960208794.jpg

... pretty much the same as firstdefence showed above in PS, but here from vector tools (shown image is from Graphic, though Amadine offers these things too).

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