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BUG: Copy of Layer Effects / "Paste FX" is broken


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I have to Picture Frames of different sizes and I want to apply the same Layer Effects to them.

On one layer I defined an Radius of 10px, an Offset of 30px and Intensity of 30%.

On the target layer this translates to Radius of 1,1px, Offset of 3,4px and Intensity of 30%.

Only if source and target layer have the exact same size this works. Otherwise the result is garbage.

Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080
Affinity Photo 1.7.2.471, Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471, Affinity Publisher 1.7.2.471

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This bug is really annoying and should be sorted out.

Or do I have a big misunderstanding of how copy of layer effects should work between differently sized layers?

I am used to the Photoshop behaviour that copied effects are always applied regardless of the layer size.

Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080
Affinity Photo 1.7.2.471, Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471, Affinity Publisher 1.7.2.471

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I wonder that nobody else is complaining about that. Thas this is broken is very obvious if you design a photo collage and want all photos to have the same outline and shadow.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: If I set the "Scale with Object" option before creating a Style is works on some different sizes, but not all. I think the bug has something to do with that option going rampage.

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@Chris B Please tell me you can see and reproduce this problem.

This one really gets me mad. :-D

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@Chris_K

San you log this to the devs, please?

I do not understand how this is broken and nobody cares. :35_thinking:

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@Sean P

I just captured a screen recording to make sure that we are talking about the same behaviour as a bug.

Please let me now if this is expected behaviour and I misconfigured something.
I found that the shadow seems to be somehow relative to the pictures placed DPI.

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  • 6 months later...

This is still broken and now also effects the released version. :(

I hope the dev team did not forget about this issue.

My current workaround is so select multiple layers and use the effects studio to set the same values to all of them.

It would be nice to have one day the functions "paste fx" and the style studio working correctly. :)

I bought the whole suite on Publishers release and now I'm fully commitet to Affinity in my workflow.

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@Jon PAny chance that this will ever get fixed?

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@pekranodon If not explicitely mentioned in a changelog you can consider bugs still existing.

And some problems are really around since the beginning. Don't have too high hopes.

I also changed my mind... From wanting Affinity to be perfect I now say to myself:
"I can achieve what I want with this tool, even if complicated and time-consuming, and I paid only 50 dollars - so it's okay."

Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080
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@Steps Yeah, I do understand that fixing those nasty bugs is only taking up resources and won't necessarily sell more licenses. Yet it would be nice to have something like a "no more features, only fixes" release. Something like MacOS Snow Leopard where nothing changed but the most annoying bugs were fixed.

I don't know, just to show some respect to the customers who -- in good faith -- bought the software non the less and supported the development. Maybe I am too naive on this ... :34_rolling_eyes:

 

edit: Ok, tbh, I forgot the code name of that MacOS release. Maybe Snow Leopard wasn't the one I had in mind. But you get the idea... :D

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51 minutes ago, CarlM said:

Are you using the latest release version because it's working fine and as it should in release 1.7.3.481

Nope, it's still broken in 1.7.3.481. Just tested it exactly the way as in the video above.

Between two images it works with "Paste Style", but this is a whole other option that has even more side effects.

"Paste FX" remains broken.

Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080
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