Text colour

[Damiand]

I'm new to this so please bear with me. I have been experimenting with text warp and perspective shift with very good results. My problem is that after I've completed the warping etc I can't change or adjust the colour

of the text. Is this possible or do I have to select the colour first?

Yours

Damiand

[MEB]

Hi Damiand,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
If you are using the Perspective or Mesh Warp tools to distort the text then it gets converted/rasterised to an image and so it's not editable as text anymore (see the label between parenthesis after the text layer's name in the Layers panel) - you can only change its colour manipulating the pixels/image in some way. To keep the text editable as text (and change it's colour as usual) use the Perspective Live Filter instead (menu Layer ▸ New Live Filter Layer ▸ Perspective Filter). Currently there's no live equivalent for the Mesh Warp Tool.

[Damiand]

Thank you, that works a treat. Onwards and upwards!

Damiand

[Pšenda]

Alternatively, try clipping.
Warp text with bad color.


New Fill layer with the right color, and after clipping.


Clipping can be used for anything, such as a gradient,


or any picture.