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You can layer gradients using Pixel Layers and then using layer blending but you cannot do what photoshop is doing because the Fill tool doesn't have a blending mode, so, any gradient you add to a single pixel layer will cover the last gradient you drew.

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I'm a little confused.  It seems to me that PS gradients are implemented and used in very different ways than in AD. Don't know enough about AP yet to comment. 

 

The rectangle gradient fill aside, which Affinity does not have, the way the gradient objects can be used are different, so the PS tutes are not entirely relevant. 

 

See attached file where I tossed a bunch of different gradients w. various blend modes into a mix w. an image file.  Seems to me, any number of gradients can be nested and stacked for comparable results.

 

GradientBlends.afdesign

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Yes a comparative result can be  done with Affinity Photo and to that end with many other photo editing programs. The one thing that has to stand out more than anything else is the ease of accomplishing any of the editing goals at hand. I did have a fancy to do a multi gradient background Fx using Affinity  but when i realized this meant nesting layer after layer and playing around  with the  opacity as well as repositioning gradient posts I decided not to because  in this feature at least the way it is done in Photoshop is far more easier  and most of all time saving.

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Was just playing around with gradients and came up with a fairly simple way to make a rectangular gradient using the Mirror Filter.

  1. Create a Square and fill diagonally with a Colour to Transparency Gradient.
    1600784673_ScreenShot2018-07-14at07_37_45.png.1fedfe18524cdf45e975fb76d8350a2a.png
  2. Go to Filters > Distort > Mirror
    288467825_ScreenShot2018-07-14at07_38_34.png.bf1ecfaaa1c8e5a00f1563d1e6f6a485.png
  3. Set the Mirror to 2
    597231353_ScreenShot2018-07-14at07_38_57.png.04901b3fa10e75da550769510bf9b8b6.png
  4. You should end up with something that looks a bit like this
    334586045_ScreenShot2018-07-14at07_39_53.thumb.png.1a1754ff8e22a653a1def01a0ca11e8f.png

 

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