[Distort / warp feature affinity designer]

I work on AD. Personally I never use photographs and I do not want to buy AP just to be able to 'mesh warp' my illustrations.

For now I could do with a destructive option to distort image-filled shapes, for example.

The lack of such a tool is really crippling...

[Image + Vector Shapes +Subtraction function]

On 9/19/2017 at 9:53 AM, stokerg said:

Hi Alexandre and Welcome to the Forums,

 

If you convert your image to curves, you'll then be able to use the subtract option and remove a slice of pizza.  To convert the image to curves, make sure it's selected and then click Layer>Convert To Curves.  I'm sure if there is another way to do this, someone else will post shortly  

 

 

Hello everyone,

Until the 1.7 update (Mac) I could do this (substract a shape from an image by transforming it to curves)(and I've been using it fiercely these days). Now I can't (the default result image is in plain color, even though the fill thumbnail is my image). By looking in the Fill tool, the bitmap fill is there, but it is completely off-centered, hence the plain color.

Workaround, as already suggested in this thread: group the 2 shapes, set blend to Erase. But this is much slower (and no-go because I do this operation a hundred of times in a day), since there is no keyboard shortcut to modify the blend mode.

Why doesn't the bitmap-filled shape substract operation work anymore? Am doing something wrong? So many users are rolling back from 1.7...

Thanks in advance for your replies!