Angela Toucan Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I'm trying to find a way to warp drop shadows in Affinity. In Craft Artist there is a tool that created a simple drop shadow (left image on both examples), and sliders that can warp the shadow so some parts of the object are closer to the page than other parts (right image in both examples). I know how to use the Layer Effects in Afffinity to create the simple drop shadow. How to I create the warped shadow in Affinity? Bothe xamples below are done using Craft Artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Affinity photo has a mesh warp tool, so if you make a shadow on a separate layer and you can mesh warp that shadow. If on the other hand you have Affinity Designer , things are not so simple and you will have to edit the shape of the shadow via the node tool. Bilbobaggins 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Toucan Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 17 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Affinity photo has a mesh warp tool, so if you make a shadow on a separate layer and you can mesh warp that shadow. If on the other hand you have Affinity Designer , things are not so simple and you will have to edit the shape of the shadow via the node tool. how do I make a shadow on a separate layer? Bilbobaggins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 You can use the original art to create a selection, create a new pixel layer and that you then fill and blur. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Just to show the effect. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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carl123 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 15 hours ago, Angela Toucan said: how do I make a shadow on a separate layer? To get just the shadow on a new layer, you can... Copy the flower to a new layer Add your shadow Switch off "Fill knocks out shadow" Set Fill Opacity to 0% Angela Toucan and firstdefence 1 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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