Scaling a layer along a differently aligned selection box

[Phos_Gene]

Hi, I dont know if there are already answers concerning my problem since I dont know how to articulate my problem efficiently.

I basically want to morph or scale a layer not along the normal selection box (the inner box in the figure below, along the black arrows), but a custom one (the middle one in the figure, along the red arrows).

As you might see in the figure below, i tried to use a different layer as my selection box, but neither grouping, intersecting (greyed out) nor just selecting both layers works, it just gives the "orthogonal" selection box (the outer in the figure).

[thomaso]

Hi Phos_Gene,
Welcome to the Affinity Forums!

To scale a rotated object in other in its initial orthogonal directions you can activate the function "Transform Objects Separately". This will display the bounding box of 1 object only but transform all selected. The object that gets selected last provides its bounding box, if you make a drag selection then the top most layer in the layers panel is the last selected.

[Phos_Gene]

Hi thomaso and thank you,

thats exactly what I needed!

Followup question: Is there a way to "warp" in designer aswell? in my example I have a pixel layer, which I wanted to deform (which I can now do thanks to you). But when I want to "deflate" (or otherwise warp) this in a way that the contours at the left and right side (which connect to other contours in the final picture) stay at their positions, I until now used GIMP's spherical filter or warp tools and had to deal with scaling and resolution issues (or do it in a really "creative" way, cutting the picture up into separate sections, transform them and then try to blend it with pixel tools, which is really inefficient). I am just wondering if there is a similar possibility in designer.