Diavel222 Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 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.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diavel222 Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 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! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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