How to Distort/Free Transform an image?

[paulory]

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble to find a way to fit an image to another's perspective.

In photoshop I use the free transform tool. 

Unfortunately I wasn't able to find something similar here on the iPad.

 

The closest to it is the Shear/Rotation, but that's not flexible enough for my needs.

 

Can anyone please help me?

 

Thank you

[jhoy]

Hi paulory

 

There is a mesh warp and perspective tools under the filters section which may help you with this project.

[paulory]

Thank you Jhoy!

I'm not used to look for this feature under filters =/

[ReDJstone]

I still dont know where i can find it, im trying to add a shadow to an item i placed to make it look real and i would say that i can do it with the distort option but i still dont know where to find it on the ipad, and by the way, if you could tell me some ways to add a realistic shadow better than distorting a black image i would be very grateful, here are the images of the item, the bed i placed it on, and the item photoshopped on the bed without a shadow. Where is the distort option and what ways are here to make a realistic shadow for this item on the ipad? Thanks!

[SlichoArt]

Select the cube layer, go to fx, turn on outer shadow, click on it (ios app version) play around with settings below, you can add shadow, lighten/darker it, choose shadow colour and blending mode and add a blur. If you don't want it to be fixed on to the original cube (so a separate shadow layer) copy cube, make selection of cube, add new pixel layer and paint the selection in your shadow colour, you can later distort, deform, use perspective and blur fx to make it a fit.

[Paul Mudditt]

Wonder if this tutorial on the use of the mesh warping tool,might help

 

 

 

 

[James Francis]

The Perspective tool under Filters -> Distort is the closest I've found to what you are looking for. (v1.6.5.135)

 

[Josie]

How do I transform a photo using the iPad? Having a heck of a time finding it or trying to do it?

[Josie]

Is there a transform tool in affinity photo or designer using the iPad? I can’t find it anywhere.

[WGD]

On 12/16/2019 at 8:00 AM, Josie said:

Is there a transform tool in affinity photo or designer using the iPad? I can’t find it anywhere.

I ran into the same issue. Perspective/Warp works great on the desktop version but is a little lacking in the iPad version. The closest I could find is going up to the liquify profile but the problem with this is I that all selections offered for transforming do not create a unified aspect. So it will pinch and distort but not the entire side of an object, just the area directly surrounding the ‘cursor’ or your pencil. Still, it’s better than nothing I guess. 

 

I ended up just moving over to the desktop for this. Good luck! 

[Paul Mudditt]

16 hours ago, WGD said:

I ran into the same issue. Perspective/Warp works great on the desktop version but is a little lacking in the iPad version. The closest I could find is going up to the liquify profile but the problem with this is I that all selections offered for transforming do not create a unified aspect. So it will pinch and distort but not the entire side of an object, just the area directly surrounding the ‘cursor’ or your pencil. Still, it’s better than nothing I guess. 

 

I ended up just moving over to the desktop for this. Good luck! 

This is a very old thread, the newer filters - perspective tool works great on the iPad.

[ZufDraw]

There is an omission combination of the perspective/warp tool. Look at the image below. This was a simple 2d grid that I put in perpspective and lifted one corner. This is done in PS in two steps but is nearly impossible in AP. In photoshop you can freely transform the 2d grid image  (free transform) into the perspective, then, without applying, you can step to mesh warp. That mesh warp is now aligned to the perspective grid! Meaning the mesh warp points are on all four corners in the 3d grid. Now wou only need to lift one corner.

In AP perspective and warp are completely separate. As soon as I want to go to mesh warp, the perspective warp needs to be applied. Now the mesh warp starts in 2d view again meaning its impossible to warp the (already in 3d) grid.

I can use the warp tool from the start but that's really cumbersome. 

So what is needed here is a warp tool that can follow up on the perspective tool without a 'reset' of the selection in between. 

 

 

 

[Nedde]

On 5/9/2020 at 8:15 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

This is a very old thread, the newer filters - perspective tool works great on the iPad.

Hi, this thread is even older now, but I still do not find a tool or filter to transform on my iPad. Nobody here seems to have a problem with this, so I must be blind. (Not the first time in my life!) I would appreciate a lot if someone could tell me, where on earth (sorry, but I am searching for an hour now) I find a tool to distort a pixel image in Photo on my iPad. I see it on the desktop version, but I can’t flip always while drawing ... THANK YOU!

 

EDIT: Found it. Didn’t expected it under hundreds of Filters and an icon that looks like an hourglass.

 

[Paul Mudditt]

1 hour ago, Nedde said:

Hi, this thread is even older now, but I still do not find a tool or filter to transform on my iPad. Nobody here seems to have a problem with this, so I must be blind. (Not the first time in my life!) I would appreciate a lot if someone could tell me, where on earth (sorry, but I am searching for an hour now) I find a tool to distort a pixel image in Photo on my iPad. I see it on the desktop version, but I can’t flip always while drawing ... THANK YOU!

Look under filters, toggle the live filter switch, then look at the distortion group. There you will see the perspective and mesh filters. 

You need to select your pixel layer, if you don’t have one do a merge visible to create a pixel layer representing your work so far. Now tap the LIVE PERSPECTIVE filter and you will see the 4 corner nodes, try selecting a node and dragging it. 

 

Quick search found this which may help. On reflection he should have used the LIVE filter version of the perspective filter.

 

[Nedde]

2 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Look under filters, toggle the live filter switch, then look at the distortion group. ...

Thank you Paul! Actually, I am really glad I switched over to Affinity, but after working with Photoshop for 19 years, Affinity confuses me sometimes.
So more patience and a good forum with friendly (and patient!) members help a lot.

[Paul Mudditt]

6 minutes ago, Nedde said:

Thank you Paul! Actually, I am really glad I switched over to Affinity, but after working with Photoshop for 19 years, Affinity confuses me sometimes.
So more patience and a good forum with friendly (and patient!) members help a lot.

If you know PS you will be at a disadvantage as you will have learned a lot of overly complex workflows. Affinity blew the cobwebs off them and completely simplified the workflow. The fact that all adjustments and live filters are  their own mask is a game changer but catches PS Pro’s out trying to add unnecessary extra masks !

 

[Nedde]

26 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

If you know PS you will be at a disadvantage as you will have learned a lot of overly complex workflows.

 

I already did with Designer
Yesterday I had to return to Illustrator and was impressed, how annoying the workflow is. I am an Affinity fan now.