Affinity designer: Curve a file to fit in shape

[Nielsdv]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with curving a file into a curved shape. In the image below you can see the project, the picture has to fit into the black lines. It will be printed around a trashcan, so it has to have the right dimensions. I already tried the "warp - arc horizontal" but it won't fit and it doens't curve the image of the mountains. 

Can anyone help me with this problem?

*I have the file    

PETman Stramien [PRINT].afdesign

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Nielsdv

The Warp Group functionality in Designer is not designed to work with raster layers (Image, Pixel).

You can use the Live Mesh Warp Filter in the Pixel Persona instead – menu “Layer → New Live Filter Layer → Mesh Warp”.

Note: You will need to rasterise the thing you want to warp so you might want to take a copy of it first.

Attached is a crudely-done mock-up using that functionality – you need to take more time over it to get the best result.

Edited July 13, 2023 by GarryP
Added note.

[Pehaer]

I was just about to write the same answer 🙂

[Dazmondo77]

Or if you want to retain all vectors, warp separately to the background image - see attached, open and inspect 

PETman Stramien [PRINT] warped.afpub

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Nielsdv said:

In the image below you can see the project, the picture has to fit into the black lines. It will be printed around a trashcan, so it has to have the right dimensions.

In addition to the warping solutions mentioned above: To avoid the text getting stretched (and the illustrations + the diagonal lines) you better would create it separately and thus place the text on curved vector path (as text frames) and outline as a masking shape for the photo and semi-transparent objects + position the illustrations accordingly rotated.