Blur Beneath effect

[B4ttleCat]

As a UI designer, it'd be mighty handy to have a blur beneath effect. I believe it's pretty self explanatory, but just in case it would automatically blur any pixels below it to the desired value. This would allow a much more rapid workflow for testing out UI iterations on different backgrounds, instead of having to constantly adjust duplicate layers with masks.

[Alphantasma]

Oh man how I second that ...times a gillion. It is now 2017, did we get anywhere with this feature being placed on the roadmap?

[MEB]

Hi B4ttleCat, Alphantasma,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

 

If you are using Affinity Photo, this is quite easy to achieve with a Live Blur filter and a vector shape used as a vector mask. To create it:

1. add a Gaussian Live Blur filter  (menu Layer ▸ New Live Filter Layer ▸ Gaussian Blur Filter) 

2. draw a rectangle (or any other shape you want to use) to be used as a mask

3. drag the vector shape layer you just draw over the thumbnail of the Gaussian Blur Live Filter in the Layers panel.

The filter will now only affect the contents below the area inside the vector masks shape.

 

After you create this "structure/construct" in Photo you can open the file in Designer save it as an afdesign file and still edit the filter Gaussian value there without the need to go back to Photo again or simply copy and paste it in an existing Designer project.

[The Bearded Bird]

Can't you just group everything except the part you want to be clear and then put gaussian blur on? Like this. 

or am I misunderstanding something?

[MEB]

I believe the effect they are looking for is this:

[The Bearded Bird]

Aaah yeah that would be nice to have for when designing iOS apps  

 

[Alphantasma]

MEB,

 

You're awesome. That worked! Comes in super handy when designing UI elements on the fly.

 

Thank you!

 

-Alpha

[Zecr]

How do I add colour to the effect? Like what they do in the Windows UI. I can't seem to figure it out.