About solar incidence angle and fx behaviour

[Raskolnikov]

In Photoshop (yes, I know, AF it's another program) the shadow angle determine the position from where the "sun" iluminates the scene. In AF the angle determines the direction where the shadow it's dropped.

 

Maybe it's just a decision already make by the designers or maybe it's a little bug/question to still think about. Just talking about coherence vs. (or and) usabillity.

 

 

Another issue.

 

When i have an element selected I can modify his "fx" (shadows, 3d, strokes...) and it's logical, but... when i have no one selected, the fx panel shows me still the fx of the last selected element... and it's quiet confusing, because if i want to modify those parameters one more time I first try to do it and nothing happends... but then I realise I have to select once again that element to those changes to be done.

 

The thing it's that, when no element it's selected, the fx panel (tab) should show an empty fx panel (with no properties selected) because, in fact, you can't modify any fx's value of an element till that element it's selected.

[Dale]

I've also thought that enabled effects should use different defaults. Turning on gaussian blur or an outer shadow and seeing no change because all the key default values are zero is slightly jarring.

 

Perhaps this is just an old habit from other apps as checking the box is actually a redundant step in Affinity Designer, but it should "do" something IMO.

[Raskolnikov]

I've also thought that enabled effects should use different defaults. Turning on gaussian blur or an outer shadow and seeing no change because all the key default values are zero is slightly jarring.

 

 

That's true, when turning on a fx parameter it should take by default a certain value, so could be seen the "effect" on the element which can be get by that option. After it could be corrected or accurate to the exact point it's needed.

 

Continuing with my question: If i have no select any element, why would i need the fx panel to show me the parameters of the last element i selected? it looks (for me) while i'm using AF , that the last element I selected it's still selected, so creates confusion for me.