Image Effects

VectorStyler

Thank you. I got it. Is there any way to control the direction of glow?

No such option for now.

Ingolf

I will also send a file when time permits. I am testing VS for hand tracing images and I believe the issues I see with the gradient tool is connected to the image effects - shadows. When I adjust gradients I get all types of corrupted screen effects (random junk) tht comes and goes but if I continue the bitmap image often disappears and then I fear file corruption.

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VectorStyler

@Ingolf Does the glitching occur on Mac or Windows?
It seems that I cannot replicate this on a Mac.

Ingolf

@VectorStyler said in Image Effects:

@Ingolf Does the glitching occur on Mac or Windows?
It seems that I cannot replicate this on a Mac.

At least macOS - I'll try on Windows

Ingolf

@Ingolf said in Image Effects:

At least macOS - I'll try on Windows

But I believe I have seen such issues many times in VS for a year not just this document.

VectorStyler

@Ingolf said in Image Effects:

But I believe I have seen such issues many times in VS for a year not just this document

This could be also caused by the Metal or OpenCL driver or how VS uses it, which can be different per system.
One thing to try is to set the Compute Engine in the Preferences -> Performance tab to Software and try to replicate this error.
In this way at least we can narrow it down if its is a GPU issue or not.

Ingolf

Pretty sure now that it doesn't occur on Windows (software).

Think I narrowed it down on macOS:

With metal - metal in prefs I reproduced it instantly
Restarted VS
I set software - software
Restarted VS
No issues
Set only compute engine to Metal, display mode to software
Restarted VS
Again reproduced it instantly
Reversed that setting to Display metal, compute enging software
Restarted VS
No issues

So compute engine set to Metal on macOS seems to be a good place to look for the root cause.

VectorStyler

@Ingolf Got it. I will try to replicate this on Monterey.

Ingolf

Saw this on Montery and now Ventura.

Jayanta Das

The effect of the Angle is very small, as it controls the direction of the blur, not the direction of the glow.

@VectorStyler Is the angle in drop shadow also for controlling the direction of blur and not the angle of light/shadow?

VectorStyler

@Jayanta-Das No, the angle of drop shadow is the direction of the shadow.

Jayanta Das

@VectorStyler What I am doing to do in create button pressed and normal state like the image below:

But when I apply outer shadow and increase blur it bleed to all direction.

I found the there is no offset of control of shadow like this.

VectorStyler

@Jayanta-Das I'm not sure that it applies to this case, but in Drop Shadow there is the Size field that controls the offset.

VectorStyler

@Jayanta-Das As for the other images, I think these look more like using Emboss.

Jayanta Das

@VectorStyler Emboss effect applied within the shape. I am trying to get neumorphic style button where shadow and lights are applied to outside of the shape
Edit: When the button is in pressed state effects are applied inside the shape and in normal state effects are applied outside of the shape.

Jayanta Das

@VectorStyler If you could add offset control in shadow and glow it would be a great addition.

VectorStyler

@Jayanta-Das said in Image Effects:

If you could add offset control in shadow and glow it would be a great addition.

I think, technically this is not difficult, but how a glow with offset would look like?

Jayanta Das

@VectorStyler Sorry I mean Offset to shadow and angle to control the direction of glow.