Vector crop tool

[yelloview]

Hey 

Why vector crop tool CHANGE opacity of the croping objects ? And how turn this off?

It happend only when the object that i want crop is under 100% opacity

[walt.farrell]

I don't think your video uploaded properly, @yelloview.

Can you try again?

[yelloview]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't think your video uploaded properly, @yelloview.

Can you try again?

 

[GarryP]

Confirmed on Windows 10 Home 1909, Designer 1.7.3.481.

Turning the crop OFF via the Layers Panel restores both the shape and the colour/tint/opacity (whatever it’s doing).
Setting the opacity of the original layer, while it’s cropped, to less than 100%, and then turning the cropping OFF also changes the colour/tint/opacity (or whatever) in the ‘other direction’.
The Opacity setting value in the Layers Panel does not change either way.

I’ve only checked with an ellipse of one colour and an image but the behaviour seems consistent between these. Other layer types have not been tested.

[yelloview]

 

10 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Confirmed on Windows 10 Home 1909, Designer 1.7.3.481.

Turning the crop OFF via the Layers Panel restores both the shape and the colour/tint/opacity (whatever it’s doing).
Setting the opacity of the original layer, while it’s cropped, to less than 100%, and then turning the cropping OFF also changes the colour/tint/opacity (or whatever) in the ‘other direction’.
The Opacity setting value in the Layers Panel does not change either way.

I’ve only checked with an ellipse of one colour and an image but the behaviour seems consistent between these. Other layer types have not been tested.

So what can I do?

[GarryP]

Unfortunately I can’t think of a remedy at the moment.
It’s not something I would expect it to do – I can’t see anything in the Help about it – but I don’t know why it’s doing what it’s doing.
There may be a good reason for some particular workflow(s) but I don’t think it’s what most people would expect.
If it’s a bug there may be no easy remedy until it’s fixed, but we need to know if it is a bug, or expected behaviour.

[Sean P]

Hi yelloview,

Was the object that you were cropping already less than 100% before applying the crop? There is a known issue that using Vector Crop on a transparent layer will increase transparency further.

[yelloview]

12 minutes ago, Sean P said:

Hi yelloview,

Was the object that you were cropping already less than 100% before applying the crop? There is a known issue that using Vector Crop on a transparent layer will increase transparency further.

Yes it was already less than 100%

So how do it right?

[Sean P]

13 minutes ago, yelloview said:

Yes it was already less than 100%

So how do it right?

Unfortunately you will have to work around the issue. You can do this either by putting the object(s) in a group, and applying the vector crop to the group. This stops the transparency being doubled up on the object. 

Alternatively you could just modify the transparency back to something that is closer to what you want to achieve.

[kwaaui]

Same issue is still happening in Designer 2 on macOS