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Feature request : Shadows


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  • 1 month later...
Just now, Maggie said:

For some reason, every time I adjust the radius on layer effects, the gaussian blur box turns itself on. 

I hope in the future there will be more control over the drop shadow effects. 

Oh, hey, the controls just turned themselves on. Yay!

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36 minutes ago, john77477 said:

there is no way to control the angle, etc.

Sounds you have a different UI. Could you show a screenshot?

Mine looks like this, with an angle option in both windows, and Gaussian Blur not turning on itself:

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macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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To open the panel on the left of my screenshot I used the clickable icon in the Layers Panel footer:

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Then I opened there the shadow and clicked on the cog icon to open the other window (in the right of my screnshot).

 

Your screenshot makes a little UI issue visible – which will result in the unwanted and automatically Gaussian blur you had reported:

When you open this window then by default the first line is highlighted (Gaussian blur) and selected to get defined – for no reason, actually.
If you then simply click on the left to activate a Shadow – but move on the right side the slider – than actually you activate Gaussian blur (by moving slider) and do NOT activate the Shadow (by NOT moving a slider there). To activate a Shadow you first need to highlight (=select) its name in the sidebar and this way make its options appear to the right (with angle included).

So the UI is confusing that way it makes one think to tick the checkbox would already do anything to a new effect. Whereas indeed it is meant to be used to activate, or better: set to visible, an already defined effect. Some of the effects do nothing by default even if ticked – instead those need an adjustment first, just ticking it has no effect.

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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1 hour ago, thomaso said:

When you open this window then by default the first line is highlighted (Gaussian blur) and selected to get defined – for no reason, actually.
If you then simply click on the left to activate a Shadow – but move on the right side the slider – than actually you activate Gaussian blur (by moving slider) and do NOT activate the Shadow (by NOT moving a slider there). To activate a Shadow you first need to highlight (=select) its name in the sidebar and this way make its options appear to the right (with angle included).

So the UI is confusing that way it makes one think to tick the checkbox would already do anything to a new effect. Whereas indeed it is meant to be used to activate, or better: set to visible, an already defined effect. Some of the effects do nothing by default even if ticked – instead those need an adjustment first, just ticking it has no effect

I have more than once made the mistake based on what you are describing. I figured it out in short order, but the initial confusion was there.

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7 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:

I have more than once made the mistake based on what you are describing. I figured it out in short order, but the initial confusion was there.

It might be good of a click into an FX's checkbox would automatically move the selection to that checkbox for usability issues.

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1 hour ago, MikeW said:

It might be good of a click into an FX's checkbox would automatically move the selection to that checkbox for usability issues.

... and in addition it might be good on a click to open an effects panel at all, to get it opened with Gaussian blur NOT selectedUNLESS I clicked on the FX icon on a specific layer which indeed HAS Gaussian blur assigned. And accordingly with other existing effects which I click on a Layer.

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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