Tarek Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Hi All, I would like to use Affinity Photo to create some nice low ploy art. In other software packages you draw some triangles and apply an average blur. In attached image I have started to draw some triangles using the pen tool and grouped them above the image. Please can someone help and advice if there is a way to apply a blur effect on the entire group which will affect the image underneath it. (Not the pen border). Any help is much appreciated! Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do but if you want the pen strokes (which I assume is what you mean by border) to remain unaffected I think you will need to create a second group of unfilled triangles with the Pen tool (or with the Triangle shape tool) & place that group above everything you want the blur to affect. Tarek 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 10, 2016 Hi Tarek, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Go to the Layers panel, select the image layer then go to menu Layer ▸ New Live Filter Layer and select the Blur filter you want from the top section. This will apply the filter just to the image leaving the grouped triangles above intact (the filter will be attached to the image layer). Tarek 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarek Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 Thank you for the quick response much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarek Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 Is there also a way to convert shapes drawn with the pen tool into selections? that would help me as well if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 12, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 12, 2016 Hi Tarek, Yes, select the shape you want tot convert to a selection, change to the Pen Tool then go to the context toolbar and click the Selection button on the left. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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