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Working with Artistic text in Affinity Designer


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This cannot be done in Affinity Designer, only in Affinity Photo using the Perspective tool. However, what you could do is this: add perspective in Affinity Photo using black on white copy with high enough resolution to create a very sharp image, then autotrace it in other software like Inkscape. Then you'd have a vector (.svg) which you could open & use in Designer. I also wish there was a way to warp/skew/add perspective in Designer. I have to use this route frequently.

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It is possible to do all in vector in Designer but it is a hell of a lot of work (and the text would have to be converted to curves before starting). By a lot of work I mean days versus minutes in Photo with the perspective tools.

I question why you want to have it in vectors when the book jacket is most likely a pixel image.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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Truthfully the book is actually a Vector image. And while I have and do frequently use Affinity Photo, it is just a personal preference of mine to work in Vector formats when at all possible.

Raster image tracing and warping and skewing text are thus far the only 2 things I have found that I miss from Illustrator.  Other than the subscription fee.  

I'll do it in Photo with the perspective tools since that's the only way currently possible within the Affinity Suite.  😉

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Maby this can help, look at Vectorstyles.

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3 hours ago, PixelPest said:

I wonder if shearing will work for you eventually?

The A in Author is too tall. You'd have to scale each glyph from left to right.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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