Yes, I knew someone would post the "but it's easy to do in Xara" and yet look how many steps it took to do that. That is exactly why I said this is a workflow enhancement. There are always workarounds for most things but ease of use and intuitive workflow is what designers that have deadlines look for. Hence I am not looking for responses to workarounds as I'm sure there are many. The point was that this feature is much simpler and faster to achieve. Actually there are not many, look how uneven your attempt at shading turned out in this example. I know that yes you could have done a better job if you had put more time into it but even so. With an airbrush tool that was bitmap based and a tablet. One swipe and you would have been done. That's a half second to do where as your explanation took a minute or more.