In animo we had a great little tool for bluring lines. Sometimes shaded fills do not give the right effect. In that situation, you manually draw/vector the colour separation. The blur tool is then used to blend the two colour zones together.
I don't know what the programming issues are but its a good feature if it can be implimented.
jahnocli wrote:Do you mean this? <snip> Simple masking with shadows...
Not quite. Yes, you can get that effect with masking, but if you have a fully colour separated character, a layer with hi-light areas and shadows, masking is a nightmare. Animo had a very good tool which you just clicked on a line and it blurred nicely. It produced a very good looking "rounded" result.