Mesh warp - ability to save mesh

[swempo]

I am using Affinity Photo to wrap labels around pots. This is great - however it is not an exact thing - there is no way for me to recreate an identical mesh across subsequent labels. The end result is that the pot images I create are all very slightly different. The only thing I can do is switch on the grid and try to recreate the mesh manually, but this is not accurate and is also very time consuming.

 

What would be great would be the ability to save a mesh warp, and then import and apply to another image...

[Mithferion]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you could use the corresponding Live Filter Layer, and since that will create the Layer, you can copy it and use that somewhere else.

Best regards!

[swempo]

Hi Mithferion,

Unfortunately there is no live filter for a mesh warp - there is a perspective filter, but that does not quite do the same thing.

Cheers,

Sam

[ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀]

I'm currently having this problem too. Would be nice if someone could give a workaround or something.

[carl123]

You can record a simple Macro (one command) to warp one object then replay the macro on the other objects you want to warp.

Identical objects will warp identically

Similar objects will warp proportionally

 

[John Rostron]

Have you tried my macro described here? It might do what you want.

John

[ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀]

Macro was exactly what I needed, thanks!

[swempo]

Hi guys

thanks so much for these suggestions! I’m going to test them out, could be exactly what I was after...

 

thanks,

Sam

[John Rostron]

Hope that is useful. I have added a few extra tags to make my solution easier to find.

John

[ASUK]

I am a very light user. I have found that I can use Mesh Warp to resolve a squinted page created with an overhead open-book scanner. However, there are 100 pages in the document, all requiring repair. I am amazed that I cannot seem to save the Mesh Warp and apply it (albeit individually) to all 100 pages, one by one.

Surely there must be an ability to save the Mesh and recall it? Surely I don't have to load 100 pages one by one, manually create a new Mesh, apply to the page, save, import another page, create a fresh Mesh and so on? It will take days.

Oddly, and unexpecteddly, I assumed that once created on the first (background) layer I could import other pages and then apply the mesh to my stack of 100 layers, one by one. Not possible it seems.

😂

[firstdefence]

@ASUK You can use Macro’s within batch jobs.

[ASUK]

I see a Batch Job pane, but I have no idea how to use it.

My hand-crafted Mesh Warp has many complex nodes and handles and I can't see the relevance of Width and Height as shown above.

Is this function documented such that I can read step by step how I might be able to apply Batch Job to my visually created and tuned Mesh which does not conform to a simple X by Y adjustement? For example, the bottom right corner of the double-page scan needs much warp correction., the bottom left almost none.

Thanks.

 

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by ASUK

[telemax]

[ASUK]

Fabulous. Thanks. I'll try that.

Presumably I just import the 100 pages one by one keeping Macro pane open and process page by page.

(One thing to check: when I export the corrected page, does that disable Macro pane - tedious).

Of course, what would be brilliant would be to import the 100 layers containing the scanned images and 'Auto apply common Macro to all layers individually'.

Edited May 1, 2020 by ASUK

[carl123]

3 minutes ago, ASUK said:

Presumably I just import the 100 pages one by one keeping Macro pane open and process.

No,

Save the macro into your macro library
Run a batch job and select that macro to run within the batch job
Select the 100 files to process in the batch job
Specify what output format you want them in (jpg, png etc)
Specify a new location for the 100 processed files
Execute the batch job

[ASUK]

It's a dream.

Thank you all - I'll try that tonight.

😁

 

[telemax]

[ASUK]

Another learn-by-example video. Terrific.

OK, dumb question.... I see the back end of the process, but the front end? How to 'load up' the 100 images? In this example, there is just the one image/layer called '1'.

Do I enter the 100 files in the Sources element of the Batch Job pane (i.e. on the left side?)

Thanks

Edited May 1, 2020 by ASUK

[carl123]

7 minutes ago, ASUK said:

Do I enter the 100 files in the Sources element of the Batch Job pane (i.e. on the left side?)

Yes, click the ADD button on the bottom of that pane and select the 100 files

[telemax]

[ASUK]

Perfectly clear, even to me!

I wish I knew Affinity as well as you self-evidently do. And to think that at the moment these marvellous programs are practically free.

Affinity deserves huge success.

Thanks again to all.