TheRogue Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Guys I'm on my seocnd day with AD. Its amazing, although its speed does somewhat outdo me - I can be slow on the uptake! AI had Feather so pictures could be blnded into backgrounds, and so no unsightly sharp edges didn't exist. Does AD have an equivelent? Once again, I know its probably glaringly obvious to most. But after 20 years with AI I'm just begining on a learning curve. Thanks Guys Steve Quote Life is one long design process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Steve, unless I am mistaken, there is still no dedicated option to do this at the moment: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/9092-blur-edges/ But you can cheat a little using the following method (and this is essentially the one MEB suggested in the thread above): Create a rectangle, slightly smaller than your photo, apply a Gaussian blur effect Center this rectangle on your photo and apply it as a vector mask to your photo by dragging its icon in the layers list directly onto the icon of your photo By the way, here’s a (very old) video showing how to apply vector masks (in contradistinction to layer clippings): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4069-layer-clipping-vs-layer-masking/?p=16825 Hope that helps a bit … :) Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRogue Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Steve, unless I am mistaken, there is still no dedicated option to do this at the moment: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/9092-blur-edges/ But you can cheat a little using the following method (and this is essentially the one MEB suggested in the thread above): Create a rectangle, slightly smaller than your photo, apply a Gaussian blur effect Center this rectangle on your photo and apply it as a vector mask to your photo by dragging its icon in the layers list directly onto the icon of your photo By the way, here’s a (very old) video showing how to apply vector masks (in contradistinction to layer clippings): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4069-layer-clipping-vs-layer-masking/?p=16825 Hope that helps a bit … :) Alex Thank you so much Alex. I shall be onto this at some point tomorrow and feed back my levels of success, or not! Thank you again. Quote Life is one long design process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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