gary danang Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Hi Everyone, Is there a simple way to create drop shadows that extend to the surface rather than float avove the surface? The "outer shadow" tool is easy for the floating ring,, but seems really complicated to extend to the ground plane in graphics software Using 3D software as per the image below, the shadows are inherently correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 You can create the drop shadow like so... 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...
gary danang Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 thanks.. nice workaround for simple objects but unfortunately I was hoping the might be an equivalent "drop shadow" tool that would create the effect in one action I need to do these for quite a complex series of shapes I had to resort to creating the graphics in 3d software as per image below, also time consumiing.. does any 2d graphics software have this capability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 That's extrusion/extrude not drop shadow and Affinity doesn't have the capability to extrude text or shapes, there are lengthy workarounds that are more pseudo extrude, i.e. duplicating, but it's a lot easier to use a 3D app, I think Corel can do this and Blender certainly can. gary danang 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...
gary danang Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 Thanks.... hopefully AD will get around to it soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 As a side note, the beta version of Affinity Photo 1.9.0.206 will run Alien Skins Eye Candy Plugin which does have an extrude feature, the text and shapes need to be rasterised but the effect works well. The image below has three of the Eye Candy effects: Chrome, Extrude and Drop Shadow. gary danang and Dan C 2 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 January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Again done in Affinity Photo 1.9.0.206 and Eye Candy gary danang 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...
v_kyr Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 An text extrude can also be done manually in Affinity, here in Designer (would be same with Photo instead) ... extrude.afdesign gary danang 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary danang Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 Thanks Guys.. . I have Coreldraw and played around with the extrude tool,, still not quite the same as a true 3d shadow.. it is more about extending the form.. not the shadow it cast It is more like a drag shape action or leave a trail option... thanks for all the help... if I find a one stop tool I will post it here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Well more realistic extrude and shadow tools are usually the domain of 3D modeling tools like Blender etc. and of course CAD tools. - A freeware crossplatform CAD one which can do such things is FreeCAD, see also part extrude here, or it's Github page. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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