It also has a limited color palette, so the result is inferior for teaching image editing. Unfortunately my screen recording system makes too large files to upload here. To get the same result the highlights in the right original should be flattened by the curves tool in a photo editor.ĪDDENDUM: The questioner wanted a video. I have used the right original (by Microsoft) in the addendum. crop the layer to wanted size or make a pixel selection of the wanted area and copy&paste it as a new layerĮDIT: this is based on quessed original.rasterize the layer, do not copy the layer effects (=apply the effects destructively, not any more editable).In the following example the color overlay is white and its opacity is 13% With low opacity it gives to your acrylic plate some plausibility. make a copy of your image, all layers in the copy merged to the top layer.You wouldn't get full blur at the edges of the wanted area. Unfortunately in vector domain the cropping also reduces the area where the blur is calculated. It's to make heavily gaussian blurred copy of your image and crop it. The basic idea is already told in comments and other answers. In Affinity Designer one must often jump from vector domain to pixels.

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