Mithferion
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Hi there.
I wanted to share the following for those who want to Warp Text, but you need Photoshop Elements (PSE):
- In PSE, there is already a feature for warping your texts.
- The problem is that if you Save it as PSD and open the file in Designer, it's just pixels.
After a quick search, I found the following. PSE is capable of converting Text to Shape (Curves), and there is an Add-on that allows the user to access said feature. So, after a test, I could fo the following in PSE 10.
- First, writ and Warp a Text in PSE.
- The Add-on will appear in the Effects Panel (I downloaded the Demo Version). double click and the "Elements+ Demo" window will appear:
- After the conversion has been applied (remember to duplicate the Layer to have a Back Up). Save the File and open it in Designer/Photo. It will appear as a Compound:
I tried to do the same in Photopea, but I couldn't find a function to convert the text. If it's there, that'd save you the trouble of using PSE. I will post this on the Tutorials forums, maybe it will be of use for more folks here.
EDIT: To convert text to Shapes in Photopea, right click on the Objetc, inside the Layers Panel, and select "Convert to Shape". You can save the file as PSD and you will have the Vectors available.
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The only thing that can be done to reduce the time needed for this task is to creare a rectangle in the size and position you require, and then create as many duplicates of it as you need. In your video, you create one rectangle at a time, so at least it'd reduce the time and steps a little bit.
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Do the microphones are made with a stroke? If that's the case, have you tried expanding them?
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Most people would use the Draw Persona, in order to get grisp and clean lines.
Personally, it depends: I mostly deaw and ink on paper, and then use Affinity for colours.
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Also, consider this:
- The 1.6 release came with new features, but also had many internal changes.
- Ben confirmed that they put a lot of efforts changing the internal framework, and it was time well spent.
So, let’s hope for a new set of features by investing time the way they did it.
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1 hour ago, MikeW said:
Gradient meshes are a supported property of a PDF...
Thank you so much for your help in the matter at hand, Mike!
This is a favorable fact for this topic.
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Nice!
I will give it a go when I have the chance.
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The main reason for me to say what I say is that Affinity reas the PDF representation embedded in AI files, and if a PDF doesn't support the Mesh Gradients, most likely that would be impossible to be editables as in Illustrator.
But then again, I may be wrong.
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Said user was questioning the position and arguments of one developer, and one part of the statements implied that the feature was not implemented. You can agree or disagree with Ben about this (I was supportive about the feature, by the way), but I can tell you that some users also lacked the proper manners to argue in favor of this feature.
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20 hours ago, lase said:
Just found this topic after lots of googling, and reading numerous other feature request threads.
Created this account to suggest that Serif hire a community manager, if they don't already have one. With the amount of time that @Ben spent being a huge pedant and invalidating everyone's examples, I'm sure the feature could have been done.
Had you searched or asked for it first, you would have known that it's already in the Publisher Beta (its versions is 1.7).
A good piece of advice I can give you: it's better to ask to be sure than to assume anything as a fact.
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On 10/18/2018 at 3:10 AM, Dave Harris said:
Shift is enough; you don't need Alt and Shift. These options are described in the status bar at the bottom of the window when the mouse is over the text flow handle. I know nobody ever looks at the status bar, but during this beta when there isn't much proper documentation it can give useful hints.
I can tell you that I do... sometimes... when I remember it's there...
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I couldn't find if this has been requested before (or it's already there but I'm failing to find it), but I'd love to have the ability to chose a color for the Bleed. Or at least, change the default color to Pink or Red, so they are easier to see, like the Margins, that by default are Blue.
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On 10/9/2018 at 5:45 PM, TomHu said:
All I do is select the line Shape tool, set it to pixels, make sure it's set to 1 px, then draw. I hold down the Shift key while drawing to keep the line perfectly horizontal or vertical.
That's all I have to do in Photoshop. There's no screwing around with 1/2 pixels or anything like that.
Here's a screen cap of me drawing two lines to show you how straightforward it is in Photoshop:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that line you made is a bitmap and not exactly a vector, right?
If that's what want to do, please consider using the Pixel Tool (available in Pixel Persona for Designer and Photo Persona for Photo).
Also, unless something has changed, Illustrator uses the half pixel technique automatically, so, the thing with Designer/Photo is that you have to set it manually.
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On the first feature, yeah, something like the Shape Builder Tool is a real time saver in certain workflows; I'd be glad when that appears.
As for the second request, I got used to the Ctrl + Shift + H command (on Windows) to dissapear just the Panels. I also hide the Toolbar, so sometimes I'm working with the Tools and the Context Toolbar, like this:
Also, consider that sometimes I work on a 1366 x 768 resolution screen, so this way I can cope with the lack of screen space.
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P. S.: Long time ago I requested this, so I hope the Devs can consider and implement it.
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Now that I am here, I added a few more:
- BLACKLETTER - Pirata One
- HANDWRITTEN - Selima
- HEADLINES - Mixolydian Titling
- MONOSPACED - Hack
- MONOSPACED - Camingo Code
- SANS SERIF - Fira Sans Condensed
- SANS SERIF - Fira Sans Extra Condensed
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15 minutes ago, Tourmaline said:
Unfortunately Dentra is not free, it's $15.
Thanks for the list. You can't have enough fonts, LOL.
I use Suitcase fusion 8.
Maybe it was a temporary offer. Too bad, I will delete from the list.
Thanks for pointing it ou!
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1 hour ago, RichardM said:
Mithferion .. I tried that before and all I got was a Crop Frame and an object that moved about inside it. I could not make head or tale of how to actually achieve anything by it... It would be good if it was as simple as that for me, but it does not seem to work. I don't know whether my version is buggy on my Windows machine and will try it on OSX.. Thanks for the advice. I will keep trying.
The second set of Screenshots show how you can easily Mask any image by dragging it below/inside the Vector Shape you want it to look like. Aster you mask the image, you can simply Rasterize.
Maybe you could share some Screenshots of where you get stuck.
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2 minutes ago, Friksel said:
Just think of it this way instead: if we can do this manually by duplicating a shape and subtract one from the other, it could be automated. As a developer myself for like 20 years, I learned that customers should not think in solutions and how to implement things, because they don't know what Affinity knows. Only their developers could really tell if something is difficult to implement in their system or not. So just ask what you need and want as a user and they decide how they do it. Sometimes things that look difficult and complex to a customer/user are in fact easy to implement or visa versa.
Yes, totally, but maybe in the process of automating that, the architecture of the product might not even support it. I'd like to think the same way, but... we as customers cannot be sure.
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41 minutes ago, RichardM said:
Hello
Thanks for that example but does not really help me.
What I mean is to just cut an image down in size, in half, trim unwanted bits off it, or even punch the middle out...
If you want to cut an image in a rectangular shape, you can use the Crop Tool.
If you want to do something else, like a circle, follow the example I showd before. Plus, if you want to have the image in a single pixel obbject, just Rasterize it.
Sorry if I misunderstood, maybe an example with screenshots could make me realize if I can help you.
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Just to let you know, that Inter UI has been updated to the 3.0 version, which means:
- Besides being a traditional Typeface family, it's a Variable one too.
- It has more weights, so now it has the following: Regular, Medium, Medium Bold, Bold, Extra Bold and Black, with corresponding Italics.
- Refined glyphs and kerning improvements.
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17 hours ago, RichardM said:
Come to this thread looking for exactly this.
I want to be able to trim an imported image by putting an object, rectangle, around it, selecting both and clicking one/two keys to slice the picture.
Xara Design Pro does this very well .. also does it will a single line drawn across the image..
I like Affinity products very much but this is a glaring omission.
Please can something simple like this be implemented? Thanks.
Do you mean something like this?
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10 hours ago, MrDoodlezz said:
Not sure if everyone is familiar with it, but just yesterday I posted about FontBase in another thread.
FontBase is a basic font-management software wich offers a free version.You are welcome!
And thanks for the recomendation, I'll give it a try.
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2 hours ago, toltec said:
Why not just drag everything inside the rectangle and then go Document > Clip Canvas ?
I didn't know that function existed in the first place. Thanks for mentioning it.
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Warped Text as Curves for Designer/Photo with PSE and Photopea
in Tutorials (Serif and Customer Created Tutorials)
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Hi there!
One of the features many of us are waiting for is the Mesh Warp/Distort Tool. And some forum members have asked for a workaround. So, here is one but you need Photoshop Elements for it to work.
PSE has the ability to Warp Text, but if you save the file and then you try to open the PSD in Designer/Photo, it will be a pixel Layer, something we don't want. Now, in PSE you can't convert text to Shapes/Paths/Curves... because it's hidden. For that, there is an add-on (you can download the Demo for the version of PSE that you have. In my case, it's version 10) to make all of PSE features available. So, the workflow would be like this:
It's not ideal, but maybe this will work for some.
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