Sherrie Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I am a Textile and Upholstered Furniture designer and I'm not sure just how I would use Affinity to accomplish my goals. I'm thinking I should be able to create my fabric designs and furniture designs using Affinity Design. Then to combine them I would upload the separate furniture design and fabric design(s) into Affinity Photo. Would I then be able to overlay the fabric design onto the furniture design? Would I be able to create the required perspective with the fabric design? i.e. as the design flows to the back of the cushion, it would become smaller... I've seen how this is done in Illustrator using a mesh/grid for wrapping. Is that how it would work in Affinity? Would the furniture design details show through? All input is welcome! Sherrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelrain Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 (edited) Free trials are available, best course of action would be to just test the apps yourself and see if you can work in them how you want or if the output satisfies your quality requirements. :) LE: Currently there are no vector transform tools in AD other than flip, rotate, skew. There is a mesh warp / perspective tool in AP but that works only with raster layer content. Technically you could create a perspective plane in AP and apply an image to it, which will inherit those perspective settings. Depending on how complex your scenes are, that could work, or not. Furniture details would show through depending on layer alphas and blending mode, i guess ... Edited February 17, 2017 by pixelrain Quote System specs: Win 8.1 Pro 64bit | AMD PhenomII X6 1055T @ 3.0Ghz | 16GB DDR3 @ 1600Mhz | WD10EZEX | GTX 960 4GB | Wacom CTL-672 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 You might want to look at Affinity Photo, rather than Designer. It has most, if not all of the vector shape creation tools as AD. It also has a bitmap mesh distort. Designer currently does not have a mesh tool for the vectors, tho' it is on the development roadmap. I recall a post where someone on the Serif team said 3D is not being considered. So schematic designs for furniture would be limited to the various isometric grid types. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrie Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Okay, I'm going to dive in with AP and see how far I can get! I'll continue to check this post in case anyone else has additional information for me. Sure wish they had 3-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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