Suetonius 4 Posted April 4, 2018 Oh dear ... seeing the amount of excellent stuff that has been created on the site, I'm almost embarrassed to ask my question. Almost. It's quite simple, really, but it's just about driving me mad. Imagine - Draw a rectangle to simulate a long banner which is going to hang from a wall, with three eylets, top & bottom. Superimpose text. Now, when a real banner is hung, it will distort and droop where it is unsupported - ie. in between the eyelets. The text, of course, will distort with the banner. How do I do that in Designer? I can get the banner background itself to do it (sort of), but how about the text? Can't find anything in the tutorials which would help. I just KNOW I'm going to feel foolish when I'm told, but, at the moment, I'm willing to risk it !! Oh - just in case you haven't already guessed, this is my first outing with Designer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dutchshader 351 Posted April 4, 2018 in designer you would have to do that by hand. in photo there is a distort filter, but the design will be rasterized. intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R C-R 2,702 Posted April 4, 2018 Not a very good alternative but a Designer-only one: text on sagging banner.afdesign 1 firstdefence reacted to this Affinity Photo 1.6.7 & Affinity Designer 1.6.1; macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 iMac (27-inch, Late 2012); 2.9GHz i5 CPU; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M; 8GB RAMAffinity Photo 1.6.11.85 & Affinity Designer 1.6..4.45 for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iOS 12.1.1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Suetonius 4 Posted April 4, 2018 Hi Each Thanks for that. I'm almost relieved that there's nothing to do exactly what I wanted ... thought I was going round the twist. R C-R: good thinking, but the curved text doesn't have that sort of irregular distortion I was hoping for. I guess it's "too neat". dutchshader: also good idea. I didn't think about checking photo. Not too bothered about rasterizing, since it would end up as a .jpg anyway. Shall give that one a try. It will test the common file format, too! Cheers each. Thanks for your time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Suetonius 4 Posted April 4, 2018 Just tried out mesh warp in Photo and, of course, it did exactly what I wanted. If I may paraphrase Basil Fawlty, "Next Mastemind contestant, Suetonius, specialist subject, the bleedin' obvious" ... and I managed to come second! Thanks again, all. 1 dutchshader reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Rostron 369 Posted April 5, 2018 Have a look at my tutorial on flag-waving. You might do something similar. John Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.6.5.123 and Designer 1.6.5.123, (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
