Photo fails to apply filter to all selected objects

[Stokestack]

I drew some shapes and then wanted to blur them to match the appearance of the underlying image. So I selected all of them and applied a Gaussian blur. Only one of them was affected. Screen grab attached.

 

[carl123]

A shape has to be Rasterized when you use the destructive Gaussian Blur filter. The program can only rasterize one shape at a time, hence only one shape gets blurred.

One way to do what you want to do (without rasterizing the shapes) would be to group the three shapes then apply a Live Gaussian Blur filter directly to the group

[Stokestack]

Thanks for the info.

This information should be communicated to the user, either by greying out inapplicable actions or presenting a dialog. The program shouldn't just arbitrarily perform the action on one of several selected objects. Nor should it rasterize vector objects without informing the user.

[Callum]

On 5/18/2020 at 10:15 PM, Stokestack said:

"Nor should it rasterize vector objects without informing the user."

You should see a bubble appear to the top right of the app from the Assistant if it has to rasterise something I believe.

[Stokestack]

Thanks for the reply.

I guess you might see that, if you were staring at an irrelevant corner of the screen that is opposite to where the control for the filter appears... and happen to notice it before it disappears on its own. Rasterization is a destructive action that should require user approval. Not to mention that there's still no apparent reason to pick one arbitrary shape out of a multiple selection and rasterize it, but not the others.

I realize that you've smushed the window down to conserve space, but here's how ineffectual this UI is in a realistic scenario (on an iMac, in this case).