Jack McOck Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Hi, Just a quick question: The roadmap specifies "Mesh warp/distort tool", but would this include Illustrator-style "Arc" distorts? This function is absolutely essential, for example, for creating stickers for bottles or jars whose sides aren't perfectly parallel. Cheers for taking the time. JunFender and CLC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Hi Jack, welcome. I'm hoping the distort tool(s) will cover all of the expectedl types of distortions in a smooth interactive workflow. I am a logo designer and I agree they are essential for a wide array of tasks. CLC 1 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted October 16, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 16, 2014 Yes, the warp tool will cover all these kinds of distortions. rui_mac and CLC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Cheers Tony, I'm looking forward to seeing how it gets implemented. Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack McOck Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 Thank you for answering. I've gone and bought the app thanks to this. Wow. Much cool. Dale 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelhdz12 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Nothing yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nezumi Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I am guessing there are no news on warping objects yet? Is there any work around to get something like this quickly: Can I get at least answer if devs are working on something like that? I did moved entirely to Designer from AI, I dont regret this move. In this case though I could use some help like... Couple times daily ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 8, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 8, 2017 Hi nezumi, No, the Mesh Warp Tool is not available yet. It 's on Designer's roadmap which covers the whole 1.x cycle so it will be added in a future version before v2.0. There's no specific eta for it. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nezumi Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Thank you for the answer. For now I just use inkscape for it, but good to know its on its way - very useful stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabel Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Looking forward to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I'm looking for this too ... the 'shear' tool does some similiar effects but it is very dofficult to be precise with it as far as I can see to do a perfect arch effect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 We purchased Photo and Designer to have a look at them ...... I'll come back in a year and see where Affinity are then.... in the meantime I'll continue using Adobe Fireworks & occassionally Photoshop ... Hopefully a few of the glaring ommissions in Photo and Designer will be there by then like presets for text ant-aliasing, mesh warp,, arc, arch, etc ... at the moment the tools & a bit frustrating to use with such omissions, it seems hard to get a definititve answer from Affinity too, I don't see any direct support.... only forums? You'll end up like Adobe with a total disconnect from your customers if you're ot careful.... I fully expect Adobe to lose a lot of customers inthe next few years CLC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 On 4/24/2018 at 6:33 PM, Mabel said: Looking forward to this. Don't get too excited, 2014 the first post here .... If they haven't managed to add it now I doubt its coming any time soon ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Well let's hope they don't wait another five years until they decide to add such vector based distortion features. - Amadine a brand new, first release Mac related vector software, offers free transform, symmetrical distortion and free distortion for shapes just from the start. CLC 1 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...
R C-R Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 4 hours ago, v_kyr said: Amadine a brand new, first release Mac related vector software, offers free transform, symmetrical distortion and free distortion for shapes just from the start. FWIW, I downloaded the trial version of Amadine & have been playing with it for 2 hours or so. These are my first impressions. Pros: Includes several tools Affinity Designer lacks; including the 3 distort tools, plus scissors, knife, & stroke width ones as well. An Appearance panel for creating multiple strokes & fills with extensive controls for how they are combined. Lots of stroke dash & arrowhead options Stroke "Profiles," savable presets that can be applied to other shapes. UI for basic functions reasonably intuitive & similar to that of Designer Cheap, less than ½ the price of Designer. Cons: Mac only Support only for 8 bit RGB, HSB, CMYK, & Greyscale color models; no 16 or 32 bit support. No support for color profiles (that I can find). Text support is somewhat rudimentary -- distort, knife, & scissors tools don't work on text; no glyph browser; typography support (such as it is) is via Mac OS Typography panel. Raster image support is limited to bitmap fills of vector shapes & text objects. Many UI features rely on a hierarchy of popup windows that can't be left open, requiring a lot of extra clicks to make changes. Lacks many refinements like customizable keyboard shortcuts, zoom to selected object, a history panel, etc. Zoom limited to fixed steps (selectable from a popup menu); range is 3% to 6400% Very sparse realtime content updates; outlines only for moving & resizing shapes (like in this tutorial video), no realtime blend mode previews, etc. I'm sure that as the app is further developed, a lot of the cons will be eliminated, but the minimal support for realtime updates, the poor support for color depth & profiles, & the fixed zoom steps are probably going to be hard to address without a major overhaul of the code base, which could take years to do, assuming they are willing to that. So ... taking all that into account, I think it is a good example of getting what you pay for. As it is now, I would give it a 3 of 5 star rating at most -- reasonably good value for the money but lacking a lot of features I consider much more important than the ones it has that Affinity Designer lacks. 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...
Mithferion Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 7 hours ago, v_kyr said: Well let's hope they don't wait another five years until they decide to add such vector based distortion features. - Amadine a brand new, first release Mac related vector software, offers free transform, symmetrical distortion and free distortion for shapes just from the start. My prediction is that it will be here in two years. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 The thing is the warp tools in Photoshop are frequently used and something that is required in both Photo and Designer - its quite common to want to use warp > arc in Photoshop on bitmaps, for example for adding labels to jars, bottles, cans and so on ... often used when creating promotional graphics. I wonder if Affinity are spreading their resources a bit too thinly with the iPad versions, the new Publisher and the 'HOPEFULLY' seamless integration with Publisher, Designer & Photo when it arrives. Meaning some fundemntal features are too slow to arrive. If you leave-out fundemental tools that people are using already on a regular basis, then you cannot expect people to make the switch to Affinity on mass even with the fantastic pricing.... We'd pay a lot more and buy several licenses for an integrated all-in-one Photo and Designer with all vector and bitmaps in one and the addition of just a few more frequently used tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 50 minutes ago, MCFC_4Heatons said: I wonder if Affinity are spreading their resources a bit too thinly with the iPad versions, the new Publisher and the 'HOPEFULLY' seamless integration with Publisher, Designer & Photo when it arrives. Meaning some fundemntal features are too slow to arrive. I think the same as you. Once they have all apps for all OS (including Android?) I think versions will come up faster. 53 minutes ago, MCFC_4Heatons said: We'd pay a lot more and buy several licenses for an integrated all-in-one Photo and Designer with all vector and bitmaps in one and the addition of just a few more frequently used tools. I asked the same question and they are very strict that it won't happen. It could be a good idea if they offer the core app so the user can decide which personas to buy. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 25 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said: Once they have all apps for all OS (including Android?) I think versions will come up faster. Everything I’ve read about versions for other OSs suggests to me that an Android version is no more likely than a Linux version or a Chrome OS version. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 7 minutes ago, Alfred said: Everything I’ve read about versions for other OSs suggests to me that an Android version is no more likely than a Linux version or a Chrome OS version. Even better. It means they have to finish Publisher for desktop and iPod and every new version will come out faster. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 6 hours ago, R C-R said: FWIW, I downloaded the trial version of Amadine & have been playing with it for 2 hours or so. ... Another cons, looks like they changed the software requirements for their final initial version, before Amadine was compiled the way to work on/with older OS X versions too, now it runs only on macOS Sierra or higher. - Other than that this software is generally more designed after Autodesk Graphic and the like. 5 hours ago, Mithferion said: My prediction is that it will be here in two years. The faster the better, since some competitors also have new software and features in their pipelines. Mithferion 1 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...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 6 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Another cons, looks like they changed the software requirements for their final initial version, before Amadine was compiled the way to work on/with older OS X versions too, now it runs only on macOS Sierra or higher. - Other than that this software is generally more designed after Autodesk Graphic and the like. The faster the better, since some competitors also have new software and features in their pipelines. There's a window of opportunity here for Affinity .... Adobe customers are not happy ..... Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwcs Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hello Serif. In 2014 you mentioned a "Mesh warp/distort tool" in your roadmap. How's that coming along? It's September 2022 and we still need a non-destructive vector distort tool please. MCFC_4Heatons 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 3 minutes ago, mwcs said: Hello Serif. In 2014 you mentioned a "Mesh warp/distort tool" in your roadmap. How's that coming along? It's September 2022 and we still need a non-destructive vector distort tool please. There was talk of v2 of the Affinity apps this year .... who knows!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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