M7M Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M7M Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 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): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Try this... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Use an antialising adjustment like firstdefence showed to get rid of those lines. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M7M Posted June 16, 2019 Author Share Posted June 16, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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