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Hi, I'm used to the Photopea program that when I turn on a shadow on an object (via Layer effects) with parameters so that this shadow looks like the outline of an object of a certain thickness, in the mentioned Photopea the shadow had beautiful smooth edges. If I do this in AP, the edges are jagged, see screenshots. Yes, I can use the outline of an object whose edges are smooth, but I would like to move this outline, just like when I set the offset and angle in the shadow. Is there an easy way around this or should I ask the Affinity team to fix the jagged shadows?

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That jagged outline looks like Pixels, what is the DPI/PPI of the Photo document?

Myself in this instance I would use a Stroke on the letters.

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The DPI is the same in both cases. I know what Outline is, but I need the Angle and Offset function, can Outline do this? How can I simply move the Outline a bit down to the right at the angle I specified?

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34 minutes ago, temporalnaut said:

Yes, I can use the outline of an object whose edges are smooth, but I would like to move this outline, just like when I set the offset and angle in the shadow.

Duplicate the text layer. On the lower layer make the text the same colour as the outline/stroke and set the outline/stroke how you want. You can now move/angle the text and outline/stroke independently.

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23 minutes ago, temporalnaut said:

The DPI is the same in both cases

The question was "what is the DPI?" It would help to know that. 

It would also help to have a copy of your .afphoto file so we can see some more details about it.

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I must say that I think that using a Shadow effect is choosing the wrong tool for this job. Use duplicated text with one colour for both the fill and stroke of lower (shadow) copy. Move around quite easily.

Shadows very rarely have a hard edge. So the algorithms are not going to be the best to make a hard edge.

If you know how to do a job with different tools and different techniques then you'll be better off in the long run.

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3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I must say that I think that using a Shadow effect is choosing the wrong tool for this job. Use duplicated text with one colour for both the fill and stroke of lower (shadow) copy. Move around quite easily.

Shadows very rarely have a hard edge. So the algorithms are not going to be the best to make a hard edge.

If you know how to do a job with different tools and different techniques then you'll be better off in the long run.

Thank you for your response.

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It's an easy job to do multiple copies with CTRL+J.

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