StarManta Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 I'm loving Affinity Photo so far, I am looking forward to replacing the pirated PS at home with a legitimate app from a developer I don't hate.... So far, the first hurdle I've come across with experimenting with Affinity: There doesn't, as far as I can tell, seem to be a way to non-destructively warp text. I've been using Mesh Warp as it's the only tool I see for the job, but an equivalent to a Free Transform would be suitable in order to have feature parity with Photoshop in this area. I do a lot of stuff with text, and being able to distort it non-destructively is a small feature, but a make-or-break one in my book. - Create Text, type in whatever. - Use the Mesh Warp tool to change it. - Text is no longer editable. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting I can choose to make text still editable after deforming it? Thanks mesbahworld 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 I'm sorry, but true vector warp is one of the tools we've not implemented yet. It's on our roadmap and hopefully will get done over the next year or so. smallreflection 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 @Dave, a way to non-destructively perform raster transforms, so that one can go back to those transforms and mesh/warp distortions, and continue editing the original values without having to re-rasterize the results destructively would be VERY welcomed. PS has some of this functionality in it's smart objects feature: if you convert a raster layer into a smart object, all transforms and some filters will then be applied non-destructively to the original pixel data. This is a VERY kick-ass feature for workflow. I use it all the time for swapping low-res assets for high-res ones when converting approved comps into production files... 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Ventura 13.6 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 +100 this should come way sooner. Non destructive workflow is a must mesbahworld and AdrianKLægreid 2 UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacius Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 But otherwise I have to say that mesh warp seems work excellently with images. Nice tool to straighten (or warp) stuff. ronnyb and mredig 2 -Chaos reigns- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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