Wrapped text editing

[Andy51]

I have recently learned about the wrap text tool. But once I used the tool I can no longer change the colour of the text or edit it in anyway. Can anyone help with this please?

[Komatös]

Hi @Andy51 and welcome to the forums.

Can you please provide us with a screen recording so that we can see where the problem is.
 

[Andy51]

 Please see video attached 

[Andy51]

Correction warp tool (not wrap)

[carl123]

28 minutes ago, Andy51 said:

Correction warp tool (not wrap)

Don't use that one

Use...

Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Distort > Mesh Warp

[Alfred]

39 minutes ago, Komatös said:

please provide us with a screen recording

 

32 minutes ago, Andy51 said:

Please see video attached

Please see: How to Record Screen on Windows 10

[Andy51]

Thank you. I don't seem to have the mesh warp option in these settings?

[carl123]

6 minutes ago, Andy51 said:

Thank you. I don't seem to have the mesh warp option in these settings?

It's a V2 option, what version of APhoto are you using?

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Andy51 said:

once I used the tool I can no longer change the colour of the text or edit it in anyway

Keep an eye on your Layers panel. The WarpTool doesn't work with a layer of type 'Text' layer but requires a 'Pixel' layer. Quite likely you got an Assistant info, too. You can change the colour of the pixel layer with the common ways (brush, fill, adjustment, …) but you can't edit its initial text with a TextTool.

[GarryP]

Judging by the “fx” icon in the Layers Panel, rather than “FX”, the OP seems to be using V1.

1 hour ago, Andy51 said:

I have recently learned about the wrap text tool. But once I used the tool I can no longer change the colour of the text or edit it in anyway.

Once the Mesh Warp Tool (or the Perspective Tool) has been used on a text layer, the text becomes rasterised (as a Pixel Layer) and cannot later be edited as text. This is expected behaviour.

If you need to warp text and keep it as text then the Warp Group functionality in Designer is a better fit but that’s not available in Designer V1, and new licences for Designer V1 cannot be purchased. To use this functionality you would have to upgrade all the Affinity applications or have problems going between application versions.