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Hi,

I was wondering if there's an easy way to add a layer of shading to an outline the same way it would be automatically added when drawing with the brush (vs the pencil). I've tried the antialias plugin (doesn't work against a transparent background), the gaussian, tiled and lens blurs and the closest I've come to achieving a similar effect is duplicating the outline twice, then applying a lens blur with a magnitude of 0,5-1 to the upper layer and merging it down, but it's still not really the same effect.

(03-11-2022, 02:28 PM)bobb Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,

I was wondering if there's an easy way to add a layer of shading to an outline the same way it would be automatically added when drawing with the brush (vs the pencil). I've tried the antialias plugin (doesn't work against a transparent background), the gaussian, tiled and lens blurs and the closest I've come to achieving a similar effect is duplicating the outline twice, then applying a lens blur with a magnitude of 0,5-1 to the upper layer and merging it down, but it's still not really the same effect.

Easy, not in the general case, but it depends what you start with... However in most cases the idea is to have it be created or kept naturally by  your workflow instead of having to (re-)create it after an ill-conceived step.