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Affinity Publisher - Affinity is great tool but I realy miss as InDesign - in effects, basic feather, you have similar action in affinity photo - in refine command, but is little complicated for work in Publisher or Designer, could this command be in next upgrade?? 

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2 hours ago, Iztok said:

is little complicated for work in Publisher

Complicated?

Admittedly though, my vector mask is just a "quick'n'dirty" example…

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In InDesign you would have to mask each of them by some means, too. Good luck with that. Been there done that. 

If you want feathered edges of a rectangular photo in Affinity, you just draw a vector mask rectangle and blur it. It takes about 30 seconds. Then you can still fine tune many detailed aspects of it.

To copy the same feathered edge over multiple images, duplicate the mask rectangle as a linked layer in the Photo persona and keep only its Layer Effect parameters linked. Then you can adjust all of them at the same time.

In other words, the Affinity StudioLink advanced tools are here for you to be used. ;) 

MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2

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Affinity is in many ways simplier, but have some unnecesary complkicated command, it is a mess with colours, hyphenationis problem with other languages, I work in SLovene, I mamage it, but there are lot of people with same problem, and simplified like basic feader with one command, we only suggest how could work better for user

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When I try to make feather wit mask, gaussial blur, te effect is not good, so i need to copy mask several time, to edge became transparent, I can only contorl radius, tot the softness of edge, pritty time consumnig

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3 minutes ago, Iztok said:

I can only control radius, not the softness of edge

A larger radius will give the selection a softer edge. :)

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Fair enough…

4 hours ago, Iztok said:

to edge became transparent

… the mask must be slightly smaller than the actual image.
But one mask is enough. As long as you're using vector masks, this is really, really easy to accomplish with a few clicks manually.

2 hours ago, MEB said:

There's already an internal improvement request to add a Feather FX to Designer/Publisher.

That would be nice! :) 

MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2

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