Affinity Photo Filter Layers in Affinity Designer

[Diavel222]

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.

[walt.farrell]

As a workaround, in case you haven't discovered it: you can apply a Live Filter layer in Photo, then click on its thumbnail and Copy. Then paste that layer into your Designer project. Then double-click on its thumbnail to adjust the parameters.

(For another workaround, you can also, of course, use File > Edit in Photo, apply the filter in Photo, then use File > Edit in Designer to get back to Designer.)

 

[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!