This tool would be wonderfully useful to me. I do it Sledger's way right now but I can't always achieve 'just the right look', mostly because I create very large work and the feather only goes to 50pixels. It's useless to me sometimes. I love how you can get all the different colors in the various areas. Of course, I don't know if AI has an issue with feathering large images either but I'd be very happy to have a mesh tool in Xara.