Matthias Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 In the AD overview movie you show an embedded AD logo on a photo of a billboard moving around in real time – perspectively distorted (not just skewed as far as I can tell) and with a transparent gradient on top. A great feature but I never stumbled upon it. Did I miss something? See screenshot (uploading doesn’t work): https://www.dropbox.com/s/rwaewx7r3cd429a/true%20perspective.jpg?dl=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I think it's just a skew Matthias, the billboard is just forgiving enough to allow it to be a skew. Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Thanks, Dale. Still, I hadn’t yet realized the embedding feature. A new feature for October 2nd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted September 29, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 29, 2014 It's there now Matthias - simply use the Place tool to place one Affinity Designer document inside another (or PSD, Freehand, PDF, etc.) Double click the placed document to edit it :) It can be quite useful - because you can embed documents in different colour spaces (embed CMYK in RGB, etc. etc.) AndyS reza55n 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Wow, great! I guess I have to dive in quite a bit deeper (by starting to actually use AD on paid projects). Really looking forward to how the Affinity suite thing will work. After all those dark AI-years I hope It will finally change my workflow to a state of creation bliss again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Useful to place PSDs like a logo from other designers, colleagues or agencies into a larger design. And then when someone says that the logo needs a minor change :) just double click. Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 This will be even amazinger when linked files and images are introduced. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 True except editing will take extra steps :) 000 1 Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artyr Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Funny, i was looking in to this just yesterday. Great feature but you have to be in separated view to see the two files at the same time and see the changes happen. Jack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendito33 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I have a Photo document that I embedded in a Designer document. When I edit the embedded document, it is opened in another Designer tab. How do I open an embedded document in a different Affinity app than the parent document? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 18, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 18, 2017 Hi bendito33, You have to switch the whole document to Affinity Photo (menu File ▸ Edit in Photo...) then double-click the embedded document there to open it in a new document tab. There's no way to open an embedded document in another app other than the one where you have the original (main) document opened. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendito33 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Aha...makes sense. Thanks MEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JokeRat Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Sorry if I hijack this thread but since the question is very related (and to some degree mentioned by OP), I dare to do so: Is it possible to distord an embedded file? I especially looking for this fancy mockup previews that are displayed on smartphones and tablets from a perspective angle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 25, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2017 Hi JokeRat, Yes, you can apply a Live Perspective Filter to an embedded document in Affinity Photo. Changes made to the embedded document will be reflected in the original document with the live perspective applied. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JokeRat Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Hi MEB, Thanks a lot for the quick answer. Sorry if my question wasn't precise, I meant in AD not AP. (I have a mockup in AD and also have it embedded into another AD-file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 25, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2017 No, sorry. Currently Affinity Designer doesn't have neither a vector based Perspective Tool nor a Mesh Warp Distortion Tool (this last one is already on Designer's roadmap to be implemented in a future version). Currently your only option is to move the document from Designer to Photo, add the Live Perspective Filter there and move the document back to Designer (where you can still edit the Live Perspective Filter if needed without changing to Photo again) - assuming you also have Affinity Photo... Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JokeRat Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Thanks MEB. I'll try that. And cool that you got meshwarp already on the roadmap. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakeamXD Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I hope I'm not beating a dead horse but I need some clarification. In the "Affinity Designer: the perfect tool for UI and UX design" video, the speaker talks about (between 13:40 & 14:10) placing his embedded app design in the iPhone mock-up image with "perspective distortion." How do I do this? I've tried using Perspective Filter (source mode) but it hasn't worked for me yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 27, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 27, 2017 Hi ShakeamXD, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) In the video they have placed a white rectangle over the iPhone image, then applied a Live Perspective filter to this rectangle (in the video the live perspective filter is nested to the rectangle layer - they dragged the filter layer over the thumbnail of the rectangle layer in the Layers panel to achieve this*). Finally they added the embedded document (iphone app layouts), adjusted it's position to match the top left corner of the white rectangle and dragged its layer over the rectangle layer (not over the thumbnail but over the area on the right) and fine tuned the embedded document position again. Here's the steps to get there: - draw your white rectangle (with the same proportions of an iPhone or the device you are using) over the iphone image aligning the top left corner of the white rectangle with the top left corner of the iphone screen on the image - apply/add a Live Perspective filter to the white rectangle (drag the Live Perspective filter layer over the thumbnail of the white rectangle layer to nest it if the Live Perspective filter was placed above the white rectangle layer in the Layers panel). - double click the Perspective Filter to edit it - set it to Destination Mode and drag the corners of the perspective grid on canvas over the iPhone screen to match its position (the white rectangle perspective will be adjusted while you drag the perspective grid corners). - embed the external iPhone layouts document you created previously dragging the document from Finder (or Windows Explorer if you are using Windows) over the existing mockups document and select the artboard you want to display from the context toolbar as shown in the video. - position the top left corner of the embedded document over the top left corner of the (now perspective corrected) white rectangle on canvas - drag the embedded document layer over the white rectangle layer in the Layers panel (over the right part of the layer not over its thumbnail). - adjust/fine-tune the embedded document position on canvas if needed. Since both the iphone layouts on the embedded document and the white rectangle you have drawn have the same proportions there shouldn't be any distortion to the iphone layouts when placed over the image (other than the perspective distortion itself obviously). * There's a setting in the Assistant (menu View ▸ Assistant Manager...) to nest the filter layer to the selected layer automatically when you add it too. Let me know if you still have trouble. ShakeamXD 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakeamXD Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Thanks MEB this worked perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 1, 2017 Staff Share Posted June 1, 2017 You're welcome ^_^ Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaitosArt Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Hi there! I don't know if there is other topic related to this but... I'm editing a file where its the final file of a project, in which I have a picture of a room, a wooden frame placed into a wall and an artwork inside of the frame. The other file I'm working on this project its the artwork itself. So my will is: I want to work at this artwork's file and have the room file opened in another window to see in real time the changes I made in the artwork and how it looks at the final version (the picture of the room with the artwork inside it). Could you give me a light? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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