Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A simple trick for bending gradients along a path in Affinity Designer. Normally, Affinity Designer only lets you create linear, elliptical, radial and conical gradients, but in this tutorial I demonstrate a workaround utilizing QuickFX which allows you to wrap a gradient around a path.

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