M7M 0 Posted June 13 Hey everyone, I am pretty new to Affinity Designer and I have one issue I cannot solve on my own or using searches. To create shadows on let's say an ellipse, I create an ellipse, duplicate it, make this one a bit darker, move it e.g. a few pixels down and to the left and then add the original ellipse as child of the shadow layer. Thus, it looks like a shadow. Unfortunately, I am facing a problem when some of this layer is overlapping another one. There is always a thin border around the whole ellipse which I cannot get rid of. I attached a file in which you can see it on the right. I used pixel view, because the stroke is very thin in vector view. I have of course set the border to transparent and in the stroke-tab (I am not quite sure, if it's called like this in the English version) I also set the thickness to 0. What do I have to do to delete this border? Thank you for your help! M7M Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Bruce 645 Posted June 13 Why are you making the original a child of the darker one? I do see the same thing as you in Designer but if I put the two ellipses on top of one another (lighter on top, shadow on bottom) and then group them or don't group them there is no border. MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) Mac OS 10.12.6 || Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 10.14.5 Affinity Designer 1.7.2 | Affinity Photo 1.7.2 | Affinity Publisher 1.7.2 | Affinity Designer Beta 1.7.2.2 | Affinity Photo Beta 1.7.2.151 | Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.2.458 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M7M 0 Posted June 13 That's right, if I try as you suggested, there is no border anymore. But this is not quite what I wanted - if I didn't get you wrong. I want one ellipse and inside of this ellipse a small part which indicates a shadow (left). If I just put it on top of each other, there are two ellipses with too much visible of the lighter one (right): Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Bruce 645 Posted June 13 28 minutes ago, M7M said: That's right, if I try as you suggested, there is no border anymore. But this is not quite what I wanted - if I didn't get you wrong. I want one ellipse and inside of this ellipse a small part which indicates a shadow (left). If I just put it on top of each other, there are two ellipses with too much visible of the lighter one (right): Oh. Make a copy of the shadow and use that clip/mask the topmost one. MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) Mac OS 10.12.6 || Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 10.14.5 Affinity Designer 1.7.2 | Affinity Photo 1.7.2 | Affinity Publisher 1.7.2 | Affinity Designer Beta 1.7.2.2 | Affinity Photo Beta 1.7.2.151 | Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.2.458 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstdefence 1,532 Posted June 13 Try this... iMac 27" Late 2015 Fully Loaded, iMac 27" Mid 2011 both running High Sierra 10.13.6 - Affinity Designer/Photo, Publisher Beta 1.7.0.140, Illustrator CC, Inkscape, Blender, Sketchup, Pepakura Designer, MTC, Pixelmator & Pixelmator Pro + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Instagram & Flickr - Affinity Live 19th June 2019 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
v_kyr 1,170 Posted June 13 Use an antialising adjustment like firstdefence showed to get rid of those lines. ☛ Affinity Designer 1.7.1 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.7.1 ◆ OSX El Capitan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M7M 0 Posted June 16 Thanks @firstdefence, this worked for me. Can anyone explain, why this behaviour occurs? It doesn't seem right to me. I know about antialiasing, but I do not understand, why this is an issue here. Or is it just a bug? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
