temporalnaut Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 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? Quote
Old Bruce Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Dan C Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 If you want an outline, you should use the outline option as opposed to a shadow. The shadow generates a lower resolution shadow that's designed to be blurred. Lee Old Bruce 1 Quote
temporalnaut Posted July 15, 2022 Author Posted July 15, 2022 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? Quote
PaulEC Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 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. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
temporalnaut Posted July 15, 2022 Author Posted July 15, 2022 Thank you, yes, even if it's a bit complicated, it can be done this way. But I will still write a proposal to make it work similarly to Photopea. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 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. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
temporalnaut Posted July 15, 2022 Author Posted July 15, 2022 I tried before with 72 DPI, now with 400 DPI, here is the afphoto file. The result is the same. AP shadow 400DPI.afphoto walt.farrell 1 Quote
Old Bruce Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 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. Dan C 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
temporalnaut Posted July 15, 2022 Author Posted July 15, 2022 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. Quote
Komatös Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 It's an easy job to do multiple copies with CTRL+J. AP shadow 400DPI with multilayer.afphoto Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.2605) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”
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