Affinity Photo 2 / Ground Shadow Function

[Dr. Bumblebee]

Dear support team,

I need a floor shadow function for my photo collages. At the moment, creating a floor shadow with Affinity Photo 2 is very time-consuming. As an example, I am sending you a screenshot from the Magix Photo manual in which the function is explained. Here the floor shadow is added with a mouse click. My question to you is whether you could retrofit this function in Affinity Photo 2.

Thank you in advance

Dr.Bumblebee

2025-14-01_Affinity Anfrage Bodenschatten.pdf

[GarryP]

This looks more like a request/suggestion than a question, so a moderator might move this thread to a different section of the forums for you.

It’s fairly easy to do the ones in the right-hand image in your PDF – add an Ellipse with a Gaussian Blur Effect – and that sort of thing could be made into an Asset for later use. Drag, drop and resize isn’t a single click but it’s not much extra work.

The “Bodenschatten” version in the PDF could probably be done in a similar way but it might be a bit more difficult to get it looking nice.

It looks like an interesting bit of functionality though, and more options for creating shadows would be appreciated.

[thomaso]

Dear Doctor, it has been quite easy for years to create the two types of shadows you want, one using the shadow effect options, the other with an ellipse shape + blur effect. For future posts, you can also use the handy feature of inserting images directly into the forum without anyone having to download a file.