kirk23 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 To feather vector shape edges saveable as a style Max P 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 9 hours ago, kirk23 said: To feather vector shape edges Use Gaussian Blur effect with Preserve Alpha turned off. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk23 Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 6 hours ago, loukash said: Use Gaussian Blur effect with Preserve Alpha turned off. it blurs the shape content too and I'd like to use it only for alpha. For a shape with bitmap fill for example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max P Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 If you insert a vectorial shape as a child of a pixel layer. And you select it only, and blurring, it will be the edges that will be progressive but it will not be a vectorial shape anymore, (switch to pixel ) any more , but still selectable with a rectangle shape (layer + child). But not feather vector shape edges saveable as a style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk23 Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 17 minutes ago, Max P said: If you insert a vectorial shape as a child of a pixel layer yeah, but you couldn't save it as a style for quick applying . Lots is possible in Affinity aps but often requires so much of redundant tedious clicking. I compare it to old Xara for example . It has just "feather" slider , all bitmap images are instantly tillable like a pattern or re-placable in mass for whole document, no difference if it's fill or just image . Tags panel you could use instead of layes , Scattering along vectors All this just in a couple clicks with savable presets while in Designer you have to do lots of tedious job to recreate same things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max P Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I totally agree with you, I spent some time just yesterday on this topic. But it's not so usual for Seriff to listen to the evolutions requested by the users, however... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 5 hours ago, kirk23 said: it blurs the shape content too Fair enough, it does. But you have explicitly asked for "feather vector shape edges". Blurring a vector shape fill won't change the fill. 5 hours ago, kirk23 said: For a shape with bitmap fill for example Yes, then it'll be an issue. 4 hours ago, kirk23 said: Lots is possible in Affinity aps but often requires so much of redundant tedious clicking. Many Affinity functions are modular, in that you can "stack" them in different ways to achieve different and unique results, depending on the stack order and hierarchy. That's a feature, not a "flaw". 4 hours ago, kirk23 said: but you couldn't save it as a style for quick applying You can additionally save more complex object groups as assets, i.e. object templates. That may still save a few clicks. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 22 hours ago, kirk23 said: Erase blending mode for inner glow layer effect ^ Back on actual topic: I actually wonder why Erase is not available in the list of layer effect blend modes. I thought that it has to do with the extraordinarily "destructive" nature of this blend mode, in that it would also affect objects below in the same layer stack. But then again, it is available in the Appearance panel with the same destructivity, yet affecting only strokes and fills from that respective object. Speaking of the latter… Here's another "crazy" modular workaround which can be pretty useful for unexpected effects: Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, loukash said: another "crazy" modular workaround … which also works directly on an image object: Note that the exact stroke width is not really relevant, it just has to "pave the way" for the gradient inside each stroke. I.e. it has to be wider than the position of the middle gradient stop, otherwise you'd see the stroke edge unfeathered. And once we'll finally have gradient fills that can go along the shape outline (I'm sure there are already a bunch of feature requests active), we can say bye-bye to this workaround as well. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 In fact, two strokes with linear gradients going from edge to edge will suffice. You can also have nice asymmetric feathering: Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk23 Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 thanks 2 hours ago, loukash said: In fact, two strokes with linear gradients going from edge to edge will suffice. You can also have nice asymmetric feathering: thanks loukash A cool idea indeed. But not working for anything arbitrary shaped like it's often a case when I want to collage images from fragments or re-shuffle a photogrammetry of rocks for example with depth being a counterpart set invisible behind . I always loved to do it in Xara because of vector soft non destructive nature. That odd "erase" omission in inner glow effect drop down could solve all of this at once . I recall in Expression I blur outline separately from the fill and having that blurred outline with erase blending did the trick too. But I believe it's impossible in Designer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 1 minute ago, kirk23 said: not working for anything arbitrary shaped It works, but you may need to stack several linear or radial gradients at various angles. Could be a p.i.t.a. to set up, so you may be better of to just use a blurred clipping shape layer instead… 5 minutes ago, kirk23 said: I recall in Expression For a while there even was a free Mac version from Microsoft until they just killed it because reason. It looked promissing, now it's hanging around with fellow greed victim Freehand in the software heaven… 8 minutes ago, kirk23 said: blur outline separately from the fill and having that blurred outline with erase blending did the trick too. But I believe it's impossible in Designer I'd have an idea… Hold on. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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