Perspective scaling

[jaybates86]

I researched to find out if this is a feature already so sorry if I missed the answer somewhere. I'm a long time Photoshop user and this one feature is all I need to make the complete switch away from Adobe. Perspective scaling. 

I make videos and overlay perspective text png images to make it look like there is text on the subject in the video rather than on top of the video playback. I export a screenshot, open it in Photoshop, make the text, increase the size, convert to smart object, distort the corners to give it the correct perspective for being on a desired plane, then finally scale the text while staying constrained to the desired plane, then hide the screenshot layer and export as a png. I've been doing this for years and the process is very fast and easy in Photoshop. This allows me to position any bit of descriptive or instructional text in the video like it was always there in real life. 

In Affinity photo I use Filter > Distort > Perspective to establish the text on the appropriate plane but after that I have no way of scaling while being constrained to that plane. If there was a way to scale while the perspective filter is active it would be perfect. 

Does this feature exist? If not I'd like to request it to be added. I recorded a video to show exactly what I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeUOXgjGX3g

[dominik]

14 hours ago, jaybates86 said:

I make videos and overlay perspective text png images to make it look like there is text on the subject in the video rather than on top of the video playback.

Hello @jaybates86 and welcome to the forum!

Perspective distortion for vector objects does not exist, yet. It is a feature that is discussed under the label 'free transform' many times on the forum, see e.g. this thread:

 

There is a feature where you can place vector objects on isometric planes and transform, edit and adjust as many times as you need. See this screenshot:

Look at 'View > Studio > Isometric' and in the help file search for 'Isometric panel' for an explanation on how it works.

I am aware that this does not solve your problem. But I would assume that it 'just' needs to add a perspective grid to this. Serif's developer @Ben, who was working on this might shed some light if this may be an option.

Cheers,
d.

 

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[dominik]

10 hours ago, haakoo said:

@jaybates86
Try the live filter perspective for this in APhoto
Menu>Layer>New Live Filter Layer>Distort>Perspective

Hi @haakoo,

this, indeed, is an interesting and working alternative way to accomplish this. Vector objects and text remain editable. Handles are a little off, but that's not too bad.

I was thinking inside AD with my comment, but with Affinity one never should forget the other parts of the suite 

d.

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[dominik]

7 hours ago, haakoo said:

@dominik But the OP is using APhoto

Correct. I missed that, too   Since we are in the Designer forum I really just was thinking about what can be done in AD. I was too stuck with the missing 'free transform' in AD.

Anyway, there is a solution found for the OP's question.

d.