Affinity Designer: Any good way of creating curved shadows

[amat]

Hi all,

 I am trying to recreate creases on fabric using affinity designer (in vector) and I am having a hard time in recreating curved shadows in the creases. I.e. recreate something as in the attached (Curved Shadow), but in a much more complex background (with gradients etc.). The one attached I created using a outer shadow and then setting the fill opacity to 0% (see screenshot attached), but the problem with outer shadows is that if the radius is larger then the offset then you will see the shadow all around the shape (see Curved Shadow without rectangle image) and I had to cover it with another shape the same color as the background to hide the shadows I did not want to see. Having a limitation of the offset>radius appears is a big limitation in my case (want to have a very dark edge with a smooth gradient recreating a larger crease). Also in this image it was simple to cover as the background was a solid color, but in more complex images it is impossible to cover it seamlessly. Also things can get messy pretty quickly...

 

Any suggestion? Did someone else resolve this issue in other ways? 

 

I tried with gradients, inner shadow, outer shadow, etc. No good solution so far...

 

[Note: new to vector design in general so be kind to me....]

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[DWright]

Hi amat,

 

Welcome to the forum

 

I created this crease effect by using the Outer Shadow effect adjusting the offset using the offset tool and then applying a bevel effect and it makes a subtle crease