MHUnity Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 HelloI am unfortunately not a professional designer so my lack of knowledge of the correct name for things is causing my some issues in looking up a solution myself, I hope someone here can give me some pointers.What I'm trying to achieve. I have a photo, I want to shrink the central band of the photo so that the sun / beach huts combine into the central 33% of the photo, to crop the upper sky out and use as a letterbox shaped final banner. Copy and pasting obviously doesn't cut it, as the background should be seemless. Please see attached photo rough guide. I want to condense the central "belt" of the photo. Pulling down the upper parts and maintaining the later parts as is. What I've Tried I have over the years previously used Paint Shop Pro --> Mesh warp (and similar mesh warping tools) to do what I want to do, but in Affinity Photo the mesh warp dosn't appear to be quite what I need. The "Liquify Persona" seems to do (sort of) what I need but it does it in far too unlinear a way.My other idea was to make multiple layers, so a layer for the sun, for the foreground and for the sky and then resize each layer by hand and then put these all back together. This feels inefficient and time consuming.My Questions: -- What is the best approach to do this in Affinity Photo? -- Is this what Mesh warp can do for me? If so, how? I don't see any mesh when I select the tool (even after promoting the background layer) -- If Liquify Persona --> Push is the way to do it, how do I make this push uniformly across the horizontal of the photo?May thanks for your help, and sorry for the newbiness of my query, as I say, once I know what I'm trying to achieve is called I can then research it a bit more specifically.( original image is 5k x 3.5k px ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Not sure if I fully understand your requirements or your diagram but do you mean something like the attached Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelrain Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) Think it would be much more simple to just cut the desired portion and sun on new layers, then rescale it, on the background you could use a large inpainting brush to fill the cut or just do a gradient between color samples from top and bottom. Then you place the sun where you want it and play with blends, inpainting tool or clone tool brush. Mesh warp tool starts with a whole layer selection with 4 points, double click anywhere in it to add more points. Edited February 22, 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...
MHUnity Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Not sure if I fully understand your requirements or your diagram but do you mean something like the attached Yes that's what I'm trying to aim for. Mesh warp the way to go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHUnity Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Mesh warp tool starts with a whole layer selection with 4 points, double click anywhere in it to add more points. I hadn't realised that, thanks Pixelrain. I can now play with the mesh-warp more properly. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I did not use Mesh Warp, it was a lot simpler than that I'll do a few diagrams shortly Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 The attached pictures should explain what I did. If there is anything you do not understand please post back MHUnity and jer 2 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHUnity Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 The attached pictures should explain what I did. If there is anything you do not understand please post back Ahhhh, many thanks for the guide. Really useful seeing the step by step. Cheers Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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