D3R Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Hi All, I have a question / request is it possible to create long shadow of a thing in a different way than shown in the youtube link youtube workflow example or affinity file I have attached. I would love to be able to this effect parametrically so it can be copied and changed. I am suggesting a tick box or something in the layer effect dialog box under the outer shadow effect. If I would be able to this and even be able to record actions with it. This ability would enable me totally new and groundbreaking workflow. regards, D. is this possible with affinity questionmark.afdesign rvz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Sort of .. in APhoto D3R 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Is this possible... A few samples D3R 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 It is possible… but there is no layer effect, or tool that will automate the process for you! Draw the long shadow yourself by duplicating and distorting the text, then drawing lines to join the copies together. You can use symbols to create a fairly nice effect, and since it remains editable it can be saved and reused, meaning you only have to do the work once. It would be a variant on this… D3R 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3R Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 11 hours ago, gdenby said: Is this possible... A few samples thank you for posting this. How did you achieve this effect did you draw the shadow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3R Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 13 hours ago, HVDB Photography said: Sort of .. in APhoto Thanks for trying that out. I achieved similar results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3R Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 2 11 hours ago, Aammppaa said: It is possible… but there is no layer effect, or tool that will automate the process for you! Draw the long shadow yourself by duplicating and distorting the text, then drawing lines to join the copies together. You can use symbols to create a fairly nice effect, and since it remains editable it can be saved and reused, meaning you only have to do the work once. It would be a variant on this… Thank You Aammppaa, As I understand it there is no easier way to do it. Is it possible to bring attention from developers to this suggestion? Regards, D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 @D3RYou can make a feature request here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature-requests-feedback/ At the moment I use a cool app called Logoist (Mac only) for quick 3D text creation. 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...
D3R Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 hi @firstdefence, Thank you, for your answer. It may seem obvious, to post it in the request forum. I will do that. I have posted another request with no feedback to it, that is the reason why I wanted to discuss it here. thanks, D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Don't be put off that your request did not get feedback from Serif - they very rarely respond directly to feature requests. This doesn't mean that the request is not read or considered, it is simply the way they work. I'd imagine this policy is so that people don't feel that they have been promised something, which generally leads to them feel upset when it doesn't arrive the way they thought it would, or in a time frame that they felt was appropriate! Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glicky Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 In CorelDRAW it's possible to apply/edit Long Shadows very easily and quickly, with the Block Shadow tool. Will be great to see this tool in ADesigner... jc4d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 7 hours ago, Glicky said: In CorelDRAW it's possible to apply/edit Long Shadows very easily and quickly, with the Block Shadow tool. Will be great to see this tool in ADesigner... Exporting to pdf and they import to Affinity Designer beautifully. Untitled-1.pdf 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...
gdenby Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 A 1.6 file. w. a couple of samples. (My d-load speed is so pitiful that the new version will take at least 7 hours. Tried updating my iOS version, and it failed. Haven't wanted to tie up my connection, needed to do other things.) LongShadow2.afdesign Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Now that is a beautiful list of features firstdefence 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3R Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 @Aammppaa Hi, yeah I know they can not promise anything. But I know about a workflow that is no possible with Adobe suite. I would love serif to implement two features. One of them is long shadows or block shadows as they are called in Corel draw. The other one is to import layered pdf as into the affinity photo with the same layers as I specified in this topic: Aammppaa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvz Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Any updates last year on block shadows? (maybe I missed something. aka I only use Affinity occasionally) thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 20 minutes ago, rvz said: Any updates last year on block shadows? (maybe I missed something. aka I only use Affinity occasionally) thanks! Nope. Workarounds ad libitum. rvz 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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