Thank you for this. Every time I think I have a good grasp of everything Affinity Designer can do, something like this pops up and reminds me that I'm just beginning to understand it all! Your content is always top notch!
This was something I used like a decade ago in Corel DRAW and that I missed so much when I transitioned to Illustrator. So now that I'm transitioning to Affinity Designer, is like seeing an old friend again!
Yay TY! I was searching for this wrong. I wanted to find out if I could make a vignette effect in Designer like you can do in other programs with the selection tool and totally didn't think of the transparent gradient tool. Happy camper. :)
Can you make a whole image uniformly transparent, ie, so the image would be the same amount of transparency across the whole image, not a gradient. Similar to how a printed piece of vellum would look, it’s opaque and you can see through it.
I know I'm a few months late and you probably found it, but when the Layers tab is selected, there is an opacity slider. You can use that for an over all change. You can use it on a set of grouped layers, singles or any configuration of selected layers. Super easy, I use it a a lot.
Ur tutorial really help me 🥹🥹, but may i ask, why do when i used the transparent effect and printed, it has this weird square around the object tht has the transparent effect? Please help me. I really do love using this affinity designer. 😢😢😢
Good tool but what i dont like is that its a destructive effect so once you set your transparency, thats it, you cant got back and adjust it or at least i havent seen a way to adjust it.
@@gormangraphics Are you sure it is an artboard? in the layers list does it say artboard? I am not sure without seeing it. There has to be something going on.
Is there any way to add more than one linear transparency gradient to a pixel-based object? I have a photo in one of my designs and I want to fade out the top and bottom and can't find a way to do this, other than making a duplicate of the photo, cropping, then applying the transparency gradient to the top and bottom images. It's clunky. Is there a better way?
I put a transparency gradient on two thin picture-wide rectangles that were black. Went from 25% opaque to 0%. I put one rectangle at the top of my main picture and flipped and put the other rectangle at the bottom. It looks like a subtle shadow at the top and bottom. I did this to place over slot machine reels in a game I'm working on. Might not be what your looking for, though.
Thank you for this. Every time I think I have a good grasp of everything Affinity Designer can do, something like this pops up and reminds me that I'm just beginning to understand it all! Your content is always top notch!
This was something I used like a decade ago in Corel DRAW and that I missed so much when I transitioned to Illustrator. So now that I'm transitioning to Affinity Designer, is like seeing an old friend again!
Such a generous tutorial on transparency tool in Affinity designer, thank you!
Yay TY! I was searching for this wrong. I wanted to find out if I could make a vignette effect in Designer like you can do in other programs with the selection tool and totally didn't think of the transparent gradient tool. Happy camper. :)
This was really useful, thank you!
Wow you've sold me on this product! Will definitely purchase it now!
How are Gradients on AD compared to InkSpace?
Thanks for the video! Is your course updated for AD2?
Can you make a whole image uniformly transparent, ie, so the image would be the same amount of transparency across the whole image, not a gradient. Similar to how a printed piece of vellum would look, it’s opaque and you can see through it.
I know I'm a few months late and you probably found it, but when the Layers tab is selected, there is an opacity slider. You can use that for an over all change. You can use it on a set of grouped layers, singles or any configuration of selected layers. Super easy, I use it a a lot.
how do you get it to work on pixel images... it just doesn't work
Transparency tool is great. Doesn't seem to work on Rasterized images thou.
The handle is a paradox. Move closer to the opaque side, it gets more transparent; Move closer to the transparent side, it gets more opaque.
Ur tutorial really help me 🥹🥹, but may i ask, why do when i used the transparent effect and printed, it has this weird square around the object tht has the transparent effect? Please help me. I really do love using this affinity designer. 😢😢😢
Was the tool removed with the updates?
This makes me want to play in Designer...
Is this in 1.10 or in the new V2?
It’s in V1 as well
Good tool but what i dont like is that its a destructive effect so once you set your transparency, thats it, you cant got back and adjust it or at least i havent seen a way to adjust it.
How do you take the shape off canvas you work on. When i do it my whole image disappears. Thanks in advance.
Artboards. If you create an artboard you can move objects off canvas
@@RonWaller yes but my images disappears when going off the artboard
@@gormangraphics Are you sure it is an artboard? in the layers list does it say artboard? I am not sure without seeing it. There has to be something going on.
@@RonWaller yes it says artboard .and it happens even on regular document. Transparent and non transparent
@@gormangraphics Yeah I am not sure. I am no expert.
Is there any way to add more than one linear transparency gradient to a pixel-based object? I have a photo in one of my designs and I want to fade out the top and bottom and can't find a way to do this, other than making a duplicate of the photo, cropping, then applying the transparency gradient to the top and bottom images. It's clunky. Is there a better way?
I put a transparency gradient on two thin picture-wide rectangles that were black. Went from 25% opaque to 0%. I put one rectangle at the top of my main picture and flipped and put the other rectangle at the bottom. It looks like a subtle shadow at the top and bottom. I did this to place over slot machine reels in a game I'm working on. Might not be what your looking for, though.
I don’t see the transparency tool on my tool bar☹️
It might be hiding under the gradient or vector flood tool
Doesn't work on jpegs
Nick please I don't know why but I can't work outside of the canvas in affinity design like in inkscape..
Try making sure Clip View isn’t enabled. Go to View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas and disable it if it’s enabled.
@@DesignMadeSimple thank you very much it worked
I have wasted ALL DAY trying to use adobe illustrator over this nonsense. THANK YOU!! affinity designer, done!
Nothing new since Corel Draw.