SalfingerAndrew Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Hello, I was wondering if within Affinity Designer is there a "Free transform tool" to allow perspective distort with shapes, this is something that can be done within illustrator where you can take two points and can move them together or further apart with equal distance like the example below. You can kinda do this with the "Corner" tool set to straight but this is set to only one angle when perspective distort can change the angle. Thank you for your time and I hope you have a great day. PTK89, Kal, JLX and 11 others 14 Quote Andrew Salfinger Made by Campfire - Graphic Designer W: www.madebycampfire.comE: hello@madebycampfire.comT: https://twitter.com/madebycampfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMo Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I would also like to know the answer to this question. I love using Affinity Designer on PC (so far it's a million times more intuitive to use than AI) but not having a Free Transform seems like a bit of an oversight. p.s. Free Transform tool should also respect your selection within the Node Tool. Currently to select some nodes and scale them you need to use the Transform dialog box. SalfingerAndrew, JLX, Hank McCoy and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 No, you can't. Only in Affinity Photo. It is one of those features that will be coming to Designer, eventually. PaulAffinity and SalfingerAndrew 2 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristian Dragos Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Any update on this request? Naty 1 Quote Check out my awesome Affinity Creations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 You could use the trapezoid tool or use grids to help in drawing out a perspective. Designer0323 and ea0723 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristian Dragos Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 1 hour ago, firstdefence said: You could use the trapezoid tool or use grids to help in drawing out a perspective. This is about transforming something (free transform) not drawing. Imagine you drag a photo of a building into Designer and you need to fix the perspective. Right now you can't do it. You either have to use another image editing tool which is not very productive especially since Designer doesn't support linked files. I would really like to use Designer as a all in one graphic design tool but I still can't do that. PaulAffinity, jfraze, TrentL and 1 other 4 Quote Check out my awesome Affinity Creations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 11, 2018 Staff Share Posted June 11, 2018 Hi dpcdpc11, A perspective distortion tool in Designer would be used to change/transform the geometry of vector shapes, not images. In your example if you do want to transform the perspective of an image go to menu File ▸ Edit in Photo... to switch the document (with all History) to Affinity Photo where you can use the Perspective Tool or the respective Live Filter to do it. SM Designs, PFraterdeus and jfraze 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristian Dragos Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 55 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi dpcdpc11, A perspective distortion tool in Designer would be used to change/transform the geometry of vector shapes, not images. In your example if you do want to transform the perspective of an image go to menu File ▸ Edit in Photo... to switch the document (with all History) to Affinity Photo where you can use the Perspective Tool or the respective Live Filter to do it. Hi there... I don't have Affinity Photo since I don't need it. Is this tool too much to ask from Designer? After we already have a Pixel persona and the free transform tool would fit right in. neelhtaky, Tori and JLX 3 Quote Check out my awesome Affinity Creations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 11, 2018 Staff Share Posted June 11, 2018 Hi dpcdpc11, The tools present in Pixel Persona are just a subset of the ones available in Photo (for basic photo editing/image manipulation). The apps of the Affinity suite where designed to complement each other so besides a small overlap on a few areas (Affinity Photo has a few vector tools as well) the devs had to set a line/limit somewhere. This complementarity will become more obvious as soon as Publisher comes out. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristian Dragos Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 14 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi dpcdpc11, The tools present in Pixel Persona are just a subset of the ones available in Photo (for basic photo editing/image manipulation). The apps of the Affinity suite where designed to complement each other so besides a small overlap on a few areas (Affinity Photo has a few vector tools as well) the devs had to set a line/limit somewhere. This complementarity will become more obvious as soon as Publisher comes out. I was really hoping you guys wouldn't go the same path as adobe and finally give designers one tool to replace both Photoshop and Illustrator. I was really hoping AD would have been this tool. I'm not sure why you're focusing on releasing a publishing software in 2018 when the offline publishing industry goes down every year. It would have made more sense to me to focus on Designer and bring it to a similar level as Sketch because Adobe XD is still way behind and Windows users (like me) don't have a reliable alternative for doing UI design (which everyone does lately). I've tried to do it in AD but having over 20 artboards for a mobile UI design made AD sluggish and at some point almost impossible to work with. Oh well you have your own strategy and hopefully in time will pay off. Thank you for doing your best and giving us hope but right now I still can't give up the damn adobe beast and I'm using AD just for personal projects. Best, Cristian JLX, Jowday, kenan and 3 others 6 Quote Check out my awesome Affinity Creations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 1 hour ago, dpcdpc11 said: This is about transforming something (free transform) not drawing. Imagine you drag a photo of a building into Designer and you need to fix the perspective. Right now you can't do it. You either have to use another image editing tool which is not very productive especially since Designer doesn't support linked files. I would really like to use Designer as a all in one graphic design tool but I still can't do that. Got you, I'm sure in time, hopefully, sooner than later, the ability to "free transform" to create perspective will be added but in the meantime I'd rather use multiple tools to achieve my objectives. I'm quite fond of PhotoScapeX actually. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunepunk Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 I was wondering this too. Have some shapes I need to "corner pin" or do kind of a perspective transform on. Is this something that's in the works coming in a future update? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoCentral Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Feature is scheduled to be released with update 1.7 whenever it comes out. Sneak peeks for 1.7 Mr Hounddd and Bazza 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewDes Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 One request on this... I've been in search for a replacement for the Illustrator "Free Distort" tool, which you can apply to text and maintain vector quality. This is different than a perspective shift or even the tools present in Affinity Photo. Will this be possible in 1.7? Is there any indication of where this is in the roadmap? I can't find anything other than Illustrator that does this well. Example from illustrator: Luckybob28, Zuzu, Gugge and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aron Elal Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Seems there's already a topic that addresses my issue, so I won't start a new one but post it here: I've recently delved into making isometric scenes and I have a few questions: Making a custom "aspect lines" with the grid is a bit tedious - any plans on making an "vanishing point guideline tool"? And is there a way to rotate/skew/transform your artwork (vector or raster) to fit your dimensional plane? Hope that was complicated enough Is there like a roadmap somewhere with maybe rough estimates of what is being developed and planned? Thank you, Aron Hank McCoy and ea0723 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank McCoy Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 On 6/11/2018 at 10:39 AM, MEB said: Hi dpcdpc11, A perspective distortion tool in Designer would be used to change/transform the geometry of vector shapes, not images. In your example if you do want to transform the perspective of an image go to menu File ▸ Edit in Photo... to switch the document (with all History) to Affinity Photo where you can use the Perspective Tool or the respective Live Filter to do it. Hey MEB, I’m looking to distort a group of vectors. The group consists of a rectangle, and a text object (like a label). How do I free transform or manipulate each corner of that group's bounding box to make it appear in perspective? PFraterdeus and co.mbyerly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 This is a glaring omission in a vector based tool. Any ideas when 1.7 will be released and will it deffo include this? In Fireworks you can select the skew tool and drag one of the bottom corners of a square outwards for example to achieve this affect, it is quite a common task: Hank McCoy, Jowday and co.mbyerly 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Here's what I mean - in Fireworks Untitled.mp4 Figmatt, mondze and Glennweb 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoCentral Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 On 9/6/2018 at 12:35 AM, MCFC_4Heatons said: This is a glaring omission in a vector based tool. Any ideas when 1.7 will be released and will it deffo include this? I thought it would be out with the Beta of Publisher but it can be released anytime between now and the official release of Publisher. PFraterdeus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 You can test new tools to do this and more in Publisher but they're not yet in AD. (And once modified in APub, you can't open AD files in AD for now). Thomas M. Braun and Zuzu 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 I'm struggling with this, I've worked out in Publisher how to select a single point to drag and 'free transform' that's it. if I select the two buttons you've circled in your screenshot I can't do anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Ok I've got it In Publisher 1) draw a rectangle 2) convert to curves 3) select node tool 4) hold down shift to select two diagonally opposite points 5) select one of the points and drag to get this effect Can't wait to try designer and photo with publisher to see how well they are integrated... Chul and danielw 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Hi , I missed your post, but I see you found how it's working If you select different nodes with the Node tool, you'll be able to use the Construction tools to add construction forms, lines, points. Once done, you quit the Construction mode, activate the Snap option "Perform construction snap", and you'll be able to work on your nodes. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank McCoy Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 That works on a single shape, but not with groups of shapes (such as a complex logo) or text. This is a good workaround for single shapes (mostly 4 cornered shapes), but it’s not a true perspective / distort solution. Glennweb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 On 9/9/2018 at 2:36 PM, Hank McCoy said: That works on a single shape, but not with groups of shapes (such as a complex logo) or text. This is a good workaround for single shapes (mostly 4 cornered shapes), but it’s not a true perspective / distort solution. Yep it looks a bit limited in Designer, not sure if its any more advanced in Publisher? ... rectangle/squares it works, but complex shapes/vectors no and can not do for bitmaps either which is a miss for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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