Lindsay Gibb Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 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 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 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: Cheers, d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 @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 Jowday 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 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 🙂 d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsay Gibb Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 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 dominik and Jowday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 @Lindsay Gibb, I've split your post into a new thread, as the original thread was a request for features in version 1.7, which has already been and gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsay Gibb Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 4 hours ago, Mark Ingram said: @Lindsay Gibb, I've split your post into a new thread, as the original thread was a request for features in version 1.7, which has already been and gone. No worries Mark, I shall have a look for it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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