Affinity Designer vectors are getting transformed into pixels after effects are applied

[KONVRGNZ]

Hello guys, I'm creating sometimes logos for print. So if I'm creating a logo, and want to have different color varieties of it for the customer, I have often used color transformation effects in Illustrator. But now in Affinity Desginer the vectors are getting transformed in pixels after applying adjustments. If I export the blue logo to .pdf (see attachment) the quality stays as it is as vector. But if I apply now the color effect and export it again, the quality reduces and get's worse, it's more like pixels not vector anymore.

 

Is there any solution for this?

Test_AD2.afdesign

[KONVRGNZ]

You can see it better if I decrease the resolution of the original document. The red logo should look like the blue logo, they are the same except the color effect on the red one. Both are screenshots made with snipping tool from the .pdf file.

 

[GarryP]

Whenever you apply an Effect to a layer, that layer – and its child layers – will always be rasterised upon export, no matter what the export file type is. (Unless you choose “Rasterise: Nothing” when you export, which will cause the Effects to be removed from the layers upon export.)

This is not a bug; it is expected behaviour in the Affinity applications.

There’s no way round it that I know of other than to reorganise your document in a way so that the things you don’t want to be rasterised do not have any Effects applied to them.

Note: The same thing goes for Adjustments, Live Filters, and maybe some other things that don’t come to mind at the moment.

Edited September 20, 2023 by GarryP

[KONVRGNZ]

Thank you very much, good to know. This tool is not usable for me, there is no way to work around this. I have a green logo as example for one type of coffee, it has over 50 vector layers with green colours and shadings. Now I need different color variations for different type of coffe, there is no way I change the color manually for over 50 layers. I did it once and I lost a lot of time. Because sometimes the customer wants a slightly change in color afterwards. My workaround was to allpy the color effect, export as jpg, color picking every 50 layer and shadings, gradients and changing it layer by layer. I think therefore should be effects like color correction to save a lot of time, therefore we have software like this.

There is no way Affinity Suite is for professional use like advertised, a lot of "functions" doesn't make any sense.

Nevertheless, thank you very much.

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, KONVRGNZ said:

I have a green logo as example for one type of coffee, it has over 50 vector layers with green colours and shadings. Now I need different color variations for different type of coffe, there is no way I change the color manually for over 50 layers. I did it once and I lost a lot of time.

Perhaps using Global Colors would work for you? You could then adjust the color definition, and it would affect every layer that used that color.

[Old Bruce]

I would do it like this. And perhaps use Walt's idea with the Global Colours if that is necessary.