Photoshop transform equivalent

[AndyV]

Old user to Photoshop. New user to Affinity. I'm struggling to find the equivalent of the Transform tool in Photoshop. I've found the Transform tool in Affinity, but I can't seem to do what I can in Photoshop.

When I make a selection and do cmd(ctrl)-T in Photoshop, it frames the selection with a rectangle and nodes that I can grab individually and move those corners separate to all the others. But when I frame the selection in Affinity, while I get the same sort of rectangle with nodes, I can't seem to grab the nodes to move individually. I've tried pressing with the command, option, and control keys, but those don't do it.

If it helps any, I"m trying to create a shadow of an image of a bed (that I have as a separate layer to the background). I created another layer of the bed and filled it with black. And I figured I could "transform" it by pulling the corners to create a mirror image of the bed onto the floor, and then blur it out.

I tried using the shadow tool to do this just with the bed image but it wouldn't give me enough options to pull the shadow around to where I wanted it to lay.

 

EDIT: I managed to flip the black fill, and then go to the perspective tool to stretch it, and then give it a blur. But it not only looks awful, it's a a really clumsy method. Whenever I wanted to move the black fill, I had to go back to the  Move tool, move it, then go back to Perspective, stretch it around some more, and back and forth like that. With Photoshop Transform I could do all that with one single tool.

 

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Just did this in Photoshop in a couple minutes.

 

 

 

 

[Seneca]

On 12/12/2022 at 5:15 PM, AndyV said:

But when I frame the selection in Affinity, while I get the same sort of rectangle with nodes, I can't seem to grab the nodes to move individually.

Hello @AndyV,

Did you manage to solve your problem?

When I select something in Affinity Photo and want to transform it I need to select the Move Tool in order to achieve that.

Selecting the Move Tool will give you the corner nodes you need to perform the transformation.

[AndyV]

Yes thank you. I somehow failed to understand what I was seeing when I clicked on the Move tool. Corner nodes right in front of my eyes, but all I could think about was "move" not "transform". Besides being told about the misnomer, I've since watched Ritson use it like a Pshop transform tool on one of his tutorials, and I sighed a sigh of relief.