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Feature Request: Feather


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2 hours ago, Lindsay Gibb said:

The one thing I miss the most from Illustrator is "Feather"   (Effect/Stylize/Feather) I used it regularly, now I'm loving Designer and have been for quite some time, but would be over the moon to have that feature !

Hello @Lindsay Gibb,

what would be different from Illustrator's 'Feather' effect when using AD's 'Layer Effects > Gaussian Blur'? See screenshot:

gaussian-blur.thumb.png.5042bb6b2ff4b2cb34d56baf1c7bcf91.png

Cheers,
d.

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@dominik Feather only affects the edge of a shape, where Guassian blur will affect everything.

On a simple shape, as shown there is no effective difference, but try giving your shape a bitmap fill, and you will see that this too gets blurred.

This 2009 page from Xara shows the difference…

http://outsider.xara.com/tutorials/may09/feathering.htm

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41 minutes ago, Aammppaa said:

@dominik Feather only affects the edge of a shape, where Guassian blur will affect everything.

On a simple shape, as shown there is no effective difference, but try giving your shape a bitmap fill, and you will see that this too gets blurred.

This 2009 page from Xara shows the difference…

http://outsider.xara.com/tutorials/may09/feathering.htm

OK, this makes sense. This can be accomplished only with workarounds (e.g. an inner glow against a uni coloured background).

In this regard it seems to be appropriate to support this request 🙂

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Thanks very much for your feedback everybody, at this point I haven't tried your suggestions, but hopefully will do soon,

In the meantime I thought it might be a good idea to show a better example of how I used feather in Illustrator....

I like how the top layer blends with the bottom.. (this example was done very quickly, without much detail...)

Thanks Lindsay

 

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