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Way to contain blur effect within a mask in Designer?


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Hi, I'm in the process of doing my first piece of work in Affinity Designer. I'm trying to mask a layer that has a gaussian blur effect but the blur continues outside the masking area. Is there any way around this or am I doing something wrong? I dragged the masking template onto the layer so it appears as a mask in the layers panel but no joy. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Hi Stokerg, thanks for the quick reply. I'd rather not upload the original file as it's over 100mb in size and a work in progress. But I have included an example file to show my issue and a small section of my image to show my issue within the Designer Image. It's all done with vectors. There are no pixel/raster items within if that makes any difference. In the example file I've put a clean square mask over a blurred circle.

Masking Issue Example.afdesign

I'm trying to get the blur inside but with clean edging. As you can see in the section of my image a blur is cast from the right side of the tree where I've created shadowing. I could do a reverse image with sky detail in, to mask the shadowing, but that then affects the cloud layers I've drawn. (They were partially under the tree until I ran into this issue and would like to move them back)

Example of pic.jpg

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