rell Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 I've been playing around with affinity designer and I was trying to make some font corrections when I spotted this problem; I found no way to convert layer effects to vectors, more specifically, the layer's stroke. Is there a way to do this? To expand curves to layer effects and include them in so that they are regarded when I i.e. use geometry functions using them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Ziey. As far as I’m aware, layer effects are always rasterized in the Affinity apps. Quote Alfred 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 4, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 4, 2018 Hi Ziey, Welcome to Affinity Forums As Alfred pointed out all layers effects are raster based. There's no way to convert them to curves. Can you use shape's stoke itself (expanding the stroke if necessary) - not the effect - to achieve what you want? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hjortenfeldt Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 I like the ability to quickly apply layer effects such as drop shadow, glow, bevel / emboss etc. but for various reasons I need the effects to be in vector format. Would it be technically impossible for Serif to make all or some of the effects available in vector format? That would be amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Hi, Hjortenfeldt, Designer already has the ability to do the many of the fx thru vectors. AFAIK, Gaussian blur is not feasible w/o rasterizing the output. "Fx" elements that can be made by color gradients and opacity settings should be. I suspect that transforming the underlying geometry to sets of parametric variable could be quite difficult. Attached, a sample of a a drop shadow, a bevelled object w. an outer glow, and then, well, a bunch of fun. I have batches of these sort of objects based on simple geometric primitives. Its not hard to change them as I like to tweak the fx. Shifting them to objects w. more complex geometries is something with which I've had less success. Myself, I can't imagine what it would be like to program a routine to deal w. that, and then tack a simple interface with sliders and buttons onto it. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotster Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 7:00 AM, Hjortenfeldt said: I like the ability to quickly apply layer effects such as drop shadow, glow, bevel / emboss etc. but for various reasons I need the effects to be in vector format. Would it be technically impossible for Serif to make all or some of the effects available in vector format? That would be amazing! Yes, that would be great! It's been a while since I've used any Adobe products, but I believe PS could separate layer effects into different layers. I agree that using layer fx is much easier in most cases, so why not make the user's life easier and let the software do the "hard work" of separating effects into layers. Hard to imagine it's not technically possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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