John Rostron Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Some time ago I presented a formula to plug into Equations to warp text along a wavy baseline. I promised to create a macro to perform this, but never got round to it. Well here is that macro and a library containing it. Wavy Text.afmacro Wavy Text.afmacros The transformation is just a sine/cosine curve: y=y-(h*a/3)*(b*sin(360*x/w/c)+(1-b)*cos(360*x/w/c)) The a parameter determines the amplitude. The default is a=0.5, which creates a wave that reaches about half way to the top and bottom of the layer. The b parameter shifts the position of te wave along the horizontal axis. The c parameter affects the wavelength. Reducing c gives more waves along the x-axis. If you start with a text layer such as: and apply the macro with the default parameters, you get: The macro is designed to operate on a text object on a background. It needs the background to give it room. It begins by rasterizing the text to a pixel layer. It uses the height and width of the background layer to determine the amplitude and wavelength, not the height and width of the text itself. To use this, I would suggest creating a new document of a size to hold the text, then warp it, then place or copy it into the target document with an appropriate blending mode. John yoroshi, PaulEC and Richard S. 1 2 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Does this mean the UI to this is right around the corner? I'm excited! John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 52 minutes ago, evtonic3 said: Does this mean the UI to this is right around the corner? I'm excited! I'm not sure what you mean by this. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 57 minutes ago, evtonic3 said: Does this mean the UI to this is right around the corner? I'm excited! John is a user, not a Serif developer. Jenna Appleseed and John Rostron 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Just excited to see any resemblance of text warping. What I meant was since warping can be done mathematically, could a true warp function similar to other apps (AI Warp) be close to bringing it Affinity apps as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: John is a user, not a Serif developer. doh! Sorry about that...lol I guess being that he's so smart and giving us macros and all I'd just assumed he was. He should be!! John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah73 Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 It's also handy to make wavy lines! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 On 3/13/2019 at 5:17 PM, evtonic3 said: Just excited to see any resemblance of text warping. Well in APh using equations here will always yield to a pixel based representation of the modified text or shapes then ... On 3/13/2019 at 5:17 PM, evtonic3 said: What I meant was since warping can be done mathematically, could a true warp function similar to other apps (AI Warp) be close to bringing it Affinity apps as well? ... What you probably mean is then on the plain vector side (AD) instead, so things like envelope distortion or freeform distortion of vectors/shapes which are sadly missing there in AD. - It's something which needs to be still implemented for AD, so people don't have to switch over to use AI, Inkscape, Magix/Xara, ... etc. instead for performing such tasks. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoroshi Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 evtonic3, there is another way to apply wave effect on layer(s) by using different distort filter called "Shear" in Affinity Photo. It has good use, because you can control it manually and knowledge about linear equations is no needed. Unfortunately... this option requires some time, because we need to set the curved lines properly by "trial and error" method. If you will want to give the same wave effect on another layer, which has a different dimension, then the line will go differently. You can see these differences on attached image - I made it on a darker background to not strain my eyes. Best Regards, Michael John Rostron, StudioJason, narhdoso and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 @yoroshi, I have just discovered your post. I had not realised that the Distort > Shear filter was so flexible. I did find though, that that adjusting the points was rather fraught. A tiny movement can have a large effect on the curve, and on the image! I will need to have a further play with this. John Michael Bobarev 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Well the whole with bitmaps/rasterization based distortions is generally always a pain here. What would be instead much better and badly needed is some vector based distortion scheme, ideally then in a reusable manner, so that one and the same distortion settings can be reused/applied for other objects too. Dazmondo77 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxHeppa Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 in this distort shear i cannot use formula? looks like no. makes me tihnk is possible develop such way tool put text to circle element. if is possible allready some other tool i want know. Ps. these macros are affinity photo only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacenjoy Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 A sincere thank you John! Just yesterday I tried to make a card with wavy text and couldn't do it! I make cards and often use both wavy or arched texts. God bless anyone who makes templates for the rest of us. Peacenjoy John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 On 1/6/2021 at 2:54 AM, MxHeppa said: in this distort shear i cannot use formula? looks like no. No, there is nowhere in the Distort > Shear dialogue where you could enter a formula. If you use Distort > Equations, then you can apply formulae. On 1/6/2021 at 2:54 AM, MxHeppa said: Ps. these macros are affinity photo only? Yes, I am afraid so. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacenjoy Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Thank you John - I'll try but being a very "unprofessional" user, I may copy and paste from Serif Page Plus! John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 @MxHeppa, I have posted a request for Equations in the Shear dialogue in Feedback for Photo. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josie Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 How do I warp text in affinity photo and affinity designer using the iPad Pro? I can’t figure it out thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted February 16, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2021 @Josie If anyone wants to help they should probably do it in your thread on this topic Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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