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I went through the steps you outlined, and when I chose the perspective filter, it gave me the four handles in the corners, which was encouraging. Previously, I was getting a blue square around my sign JPEG, and the edges of the square did not line up with the edges of my image, and there were no handles on the square. So seeing a selection box that matched my image and seeing the selection handles gave me hope. However, when I move the handles of the box, the image does not move with them. And when I click Apply, no perspective changes have been made to my image. The image I'm working on is for an ad for a new restaurant coming to our town. Even though I couldn't get the perspective tool to work, I did manage to mock up a sign for them. (I think I converted the layer to curves or something. That allowed me to line up the corners of the new sign over the old sign, but it didn't adjust the perspective at all.) They approved the ad today, so that's good. I guess I will just hope that next time I need the perspective tool, I'll be working on a fresh image and won't run into any problems! I appreciate everyone's help. The problem isn't solved, but I appreciate the time you spent and the ideas you offered.

I'm attaching the Photo file here. I haven't had a chance to try the above suggestion about deactivating those settings. Honey-Berry_0798_BW.afphoto

Same result. And it looks like those extra handles show up as a result of the rasterization, not the perspective tool. Screen Recording 2023-02-16 at 11.20.23 AM.mov

I had turned off the Assistant, but I turned it back on in this recording I'm uploading now. The perspective tool still has no effect, and something else strange happens that I don't know exactly how to describe. You can see at the end of the screen record, after the later is rasterized and after I try applying the perspective tool, the selection no longer has handles. Or maybe the handles have moved—there's a little cluster of nodules in the lower section of the file. I can grab and spin them, but I don't know what they do. That's what was happening the first couple times I tried applying perspective to my sign JPEG, which is why I turned off the Assistant, to avoid rasterization. Screen Recording 2023-02-16 at 11.01.17 AM.mov

Good morning. I'm attaching a screen recording here. Let me know if I didn't capture everything you need to see. I did shutdown and restart my Mac this morning, and I restarted Affinity Photo 2 before opening this file. What I haven't done yet is to find the other image I was working on earlier this week, where I was able to use the perspective tool successfully. Thanks for helping me with this. Affinity-Photo_230216.mov

Hi, thanks. I have tried rasterizing as well as not rasterizing, but the perspective tool has no effect either way. I am not as familiar with the filters as with the tools, and I don't see how I can use them when they are grayed out, but I can try dinking around with that. Nevertheless, the fact remains that I used to be able to use the perspective tool—in fact I used it yesterday—and now I cannot. Other people in the forum are experiencing the same issue. Your suggestion might work as an alternate, and I'll see if I can figure it out. But it does seem like the perspective tool is broken.

I am working in Affinity Photo 2.0.4 on a grayscale photo. The photo shows a building and a sign, and I have placed a second JPEG of a new sign onto the first photo. I'm trying to change the perspective of the new sign to match the first photo. When I select the sign JPEG, then select the perspective tool, the sign is outlined and there are four handles in the four corners of the sign, but when I move those handles only the outline moves. The JPEG stays the same. When I click apply, the JPEG is unchanged. I can use shear to get the sign JPEG pretty close to what I need, but I really need the perspective tool to match corner to corner. Someone in another thread suggested using the perspective filter rather than the perspective tool, but all my filter options are grayed out when I have my sign JPEG selected. I know I've used the perspective tool successfully in the past. I'm not sure what would be different about this JPEG.

Thanks for this conversation. I'm having similar issues. I'm using Publisher 1.9, and if I start playing around with the text wrap too much, the app hangs and I get the spinning rainbow. The images I'm wrapping around are all basic, placed TIFFs. It's not any specific image that causes the hang, and it doesn't happen right away. It's like, if I make too many wrapping changes in a row, suddenly I get the spinning rainbow. Sometimes I'm able to save and exit, though it takes a while. Other times I have to force quit. Is there a fix available?