Roland Rick Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Hi guys Please watch the video. When will we finally get mask blurring by "FX"? That is in Photoshop available since they introduced masks. I don't understand it, why Affinity users can't do this. It is a super useful, non destructive, trivial but important function. But it is not possible to blur masks in Affinity Photo, what is quite annoying. I am asking for this since 2015 or so for over and over again, my first Affinity Photo version I purchased was 1.3.x or even earlier, can't remember exactly. Many thanks in advance for any feedback. I sure ten thousand of other Affinity users also are urgently waiting for this. Best regards, Roland Blurring masks not possible since ever and I am afraid forever.mov Quote Roland Rick Roland Rick PhotographyPipobike Mountainbike Guide and Driving Instructor iMac 27 5K Retina (Late 2013), MBP 15" Retina (Something 2013), MBP13" Retina (Early 2015) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 How does the FX Gaussian blur differ from... Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Blur > Gaussian Blur as the latter appears to work on Masks Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rick Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 3 hours ago, carl123 said: How does the FX Gaussian blur differ from... Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Blur > Gaussian Blur as the latter appears to work on Masks Thanks @carl123 Doesn't work as expected/needed. You also replied to my bug report. Please watch the video #2 there how easy that works in Photoshop. In Affinity Photo it's literally not possible. Mask feather suggestion by carl123.mov Quote Roland Rick Roland Rick PhotographyPipobike Mountainbike Guide and Driving Instructor iMac 27 5K Retina (Late 2013), MBP 15" Retina (Something 2013), MBP13" Retina (Early 2015) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Just now, Roland Rick said: Doesn't work as expected/needed. Since V2 it fully works as needed, when the blur filter is nested into masking position of mask. It does not work if child-nested, or will blur the pixel content if child-nested to parent (above the blur filter). When your need is something different, please describe. I understand you "just want it to be in layer FX for convenience". As a matter of facts, Layer FX do not work at all for mask layers (except fill opacity which just reflects mask layer opacity which effectively reduce parent layer opacity). I Agree it would be nice, but no longer a deal breaker as nested blur filters now work and can be extended to allow changing radius (which wasn't possible in V1) 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...
carl123 Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 13 minutes ago, Roland Rick said: Mask feather suggestion by carl123.mov No, it's not I was addressing the Gaussian blur being applied to a mask which is what this thread is about The other thread is about feathering, which I have not looked at yet Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rick Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 21 minutes ago, carl123 said: No, it's not I was addressing the Gaussian blur being applied to a mask which is what this thread is about The other thread is about feathering, which I have not looked at yet Hi Carl, thanks for reply. Well, feathering the edges of a mask or blurring is the same thing to me. I apologise for using the wrong terminology. Quote Roland Rick Roland Rick PhotographyPipobike Mountainbike Guide and Driving Instructor iMac 27 5K Retina (Late 2013), MBP 15" Retina (Something 2013), MBP13" Retina (Early 2015) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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