Affinity Publisher - effects, basic feather

[Iztok]

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?? 

[loukash]

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…

[Iztok]

Well, if you have 10 photos in one page and want to have feather ages, then you need to do mask at every photo instead to select all and then just click feather.

One isn't problem

[loukash]

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.  

[Iztok]

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

[Iztok]

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

[Alfred]

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.

[Iztok]

yes, but not the edge and what is important i don'tt want softness to the middle of the picture yust tiny edge, this is not the solution for designer.

[MEB]

Hi @Iztok,
There's already an internal improvement request to add a Feather FX to Designer/Publisher. This however must be approved first by dev team/management to be implemented and as such there's still no guarantee it will be addd at the moment. You're not the first user requesting it.

[loukash]

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!