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Would appreciate someone's artistic touch with Designer Fx settings for a heart-shaped balloon. The attached afdesign file is AD 1.6 on Win 10. I think my trials are close but miss in 2 areas, 1) no gloss or shine, 2) the lower shadow isn't right and the line where the shadow begins is too sharp - needs some diffusion.  I haven't even gotten to the Transparency Tool yet. Suggestions are appreciated.

heart-balloons-jm.afdesign

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I'm attaching my attempt, Jer. It's not quite there (in particular, it probably isn't shiny enough) but I've simplified it by applying the red/pink gradient fill directly: I wasn't even aware of the 'Gradient Overlay' fx option, so I was quite surprised to find that the fill for your balloons is almost black.

 

P.S. I've only just noticed how ginormous these files are! :o

 

[Edited to substitute version without huge bitmap]

 

 

heart-balloons_jer-m_modified_redux.afdesign

Edited by Alfred
Replaced large attachment with much smaller one

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Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro
Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen)

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Interesting challenge..just had to have a go at this one....

 

Liked your Bevel and emboss attempt Alfred...couldn't get mine to work that well!:)

 

But here goes.....

heart balloon-jer.afdesign

 

NB:AD ok with me so long as I don't touch the raster brushes!

 

Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.1 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher)   Beta; 2.4 2.2356
OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0
Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 
Radeon Settings Version 2020
20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1

 

 

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Here is my attempt.  I'm not sure if it gets you any closer than the others, but it makes use of a handy trick I found...  You can get stronger FX by exploiting the "Scale with object" toggle.  Toggle it on and then scale your object much larger than the original.  Then toggle it off and scale the object back down to normal size.  I did this with the bevel/emboss to get a more rounded look than you could get by applying it directly.  Neat huh?  :D

heart-balloons-slk.afdesign

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1 hour ago, Alfred said:

I'm attaching my attempt, Jer. It's not quite there (in particular, it probably isn't shiny enough) but I've simplified it by applying the red/pink gradient fill directly: I wasn't even aware of the 'Gradient Overlay' fx option, so I was quite surprised to find that the fill for your balloons is almost black.

 

P.S. I've only just noticed how ginormous these files are! :o

 

heart-balloons_jer-m_modified.afdesign

 

Alfred, nicely done! I think your simplified radial gradient fill leaving only the Bevel/Emboss in Fx did a much better job than my attempt. AND, you didn't need to add a glint and a tack-on shadow layer like I tried! I didn't notice the huge MB until I uploaded. Wonder what caused that. Interestingly, both Stuart_R's and sleekdigitals's files are tiny! Maybe because they deleted the pixel image of how a balloon should look? I didn't think it was a huge image but I'll test to see. Thanks for sharing a better solution.

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1 hour ago, Stuart_R said:

Interesting challenge..just had to have a go at this one....

 

Liked your Bevel and emboss attempt Alfred...couldn't get mine to work that well!:)

 

But here goes.....

heart balloon-jer.afdesign

 

NB:AD ok with me so long as I don't touch the raster brushes!

 

Stuart_R, You got the gloss, man! And great shadowing. Now I have to dig into your layers (hmm, sorry, that doesn't sound right!) and see how you got them to look like M&Ms instead of like faded cotton socks. Hey, you can't even touch the raster brushes if you stay out of the Pixel Persona! :D

Thanks for a great solution.

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40 minutes ago, sleekdigital said:

Here is my attempt.  I'm not sure if it gets you any closer than the others, but it makes use of a handy trick I found...  You can get stronger FX by exploiting the "Scale with object" toggle.  Toggle it on and then scale your object much larger than the original.  Then toggle it off and scale the object back down to normal size.  I did this with the bevel/emboss to get a more rounded look than you could get by applying it directly.  Neat huh?  :D

heart-balloons-slk.afdesign

 

The correct rounded-look was a big problem for me as you could plainly see. The Toggle-on/Scale up/Toggle-off/Scale back down is a genius approach! What a bonus from this exercise. The Fx Inner Glow is a nice touch too! Thanks for your assistance.

♥  WIN 10 AD & AP  ♥  Lenovo Legion Y520 15.6" Laptop

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