Liquid Glass Affinity Photo 2

[lukramon]

Hey folks,

I've tried to recreate the Apple Liquid Glass to one of my clients logo's, super fun with Affinity Photo 2, but since I'm not used to use Photo the correct way, I'd love to get a more efficient output.

Here are my problems with this file:

• I was inspired by another creator on this platform, who made in my eyes a more efficient file, but I don't seem to understand his layer structure since I'm not an expert in Photo
• I'd love the Gaussian Blur to fade out in the edges, to make it more realistic (I did an attempt as you can see in the layers, by adding an inner glow/shadow, but it does not seem to work

Thanks in advance,
Luk Ramon

[lukramon]

Another question, the render quality of the displacement map is pretty bad (jpg). If there's a way to upscale this, I'd love to know!