NotMyFault Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Hi, Affinity offers lots of opacity settings. I must admit that it is still unclear to me when to use which of these, and what are working or reasonable combinations: Layer fx, Fill opacity, fill opacity Layer fx, Fill opacity, fill color opacity layer fx, opacity of fill effects like overlay, gradient layer fx, opacity of stroke effects like shadow, glow, outline, layer opacity color opacity brush opacity (bitmap layers) stroke opacity (vector layers) when trying to only combine 2-3 of these, you run into trouble (bugs) within seconds. start with a circle, filled with gradient from black (left) to white (right), opacity gradient from center (transparent) to opaque (edge), and play with these settings (1-6) Later rasterize the vector object, and paint on it with brushes using option 6-8. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 24 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: start with a circle, filled with gradient from black (left) to white (right), opacity gradient from center (transparent) to opaque (edge), and play with these settings (1-6) Do you mean something like this Circle with gradient.afphoto file? Also, I am not sure what layer effect(s) you are referring to in 1-4 (outline, 3D, Inner shadow, etc.). Does it matter which one(s) we use? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted July 7, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 7, 2023 Is it possible for you to post a screen recording showing the adjustments that you are using and the bugs that you are encountering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted July 7, 2023 Author Share Posted July 7, 2023 The main issue is: when using outline on a layer with partial transparency, it will boost alpha to 100% in all areas except where alpha was exactly 0%. I did not recognise this initially, leading to unexpected results. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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