Kaje Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Hello. I'm still trying to work out the mechanics/logic of Affinity Suite. I'm creating a poster in Affinity Photo, and I want to do a bit more with my text. I'm also moving from PC to Mac and for the life of me I cannot get the pen/node tools to do what they're supposed to with text. Also, I want to add shape to text rather than just have the letters climbing up whatever lines or shape tool I add the text to. I'm horrible at wording literally anything, so I hope you can understand my question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 4 hours ago, Kaje said: for the life of me I cannot get the pen/node tools to do what they're supposed to with text. What specifically is it that you want to do with text? For most text-related things you would use one of the text tools (Frame Text or Artistic Text) but if you want to do something to the text using the Pen or Node tools, you would first have to convert the text to shapes. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlies09 Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Hi, I've recently started working with Affinity Designer and I'm also struggling to combine text to shapes. I know how to place text in a path, but I would also like to know how to form the text in the actual shape. So instead of the text following the path of a circle, how do I shape the text in an actual circle as in the image below? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 18 minutes ago, marlies09 said: how do I shape the text in an actual circle as in the image below? I believe there are functions in Photo that would help give that appearance (though possibly with rasterized, not editable text), but not in Designer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 There aren't any vector based envelope distortion/warp features in Affinity Designer, you would have to use as a workaround other tools like Illustrator, CorelDraw, Inkscape, VectorStyler ... etc. which do support such vector distortions/warpings. https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/81514/bulge-effect-in-affinity-designer Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 In addition to the others' replies, I'd like to add that it's very, very unlikely, that the example you've shown is done by some kind of (automatic) warping. It's an illustration of a font, which might not even have had an actual font as a base. To me, that looks like manually (e. g. manually tracing an—analog or digital—sketch) done as you won't get such a perfect result with warping only. Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlies09 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Thank you all for clearing that up! I am totally new to grapic designing and I saw a short tutorial of text warping in Illustrator. I wondered if that was possible in Affinity as well, so I grabbed an image of the internet that looked like it to quickly illustrate what I ment. I obviously still have a lot to learn and I'm definitely going to try to do it manually. Thanks! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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