VectorCat Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 How is it handled in AD when you want to distort vector shapes, either for perspective or for abstract reasons? do AD-using artists simply draw it that way to begin with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Vector distortion is not a feature presently. Hopefully it's a high priority for the developers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 8 minutes ago, Mark Oehlschlager said: Vector distortion is not a feature presently. Hopefully it's a high priority for the developers. Understood. Until that time arrives, artists simply draw with the distortion, or maybe do a pencil sketch as a guide, then the “real” drawing over the top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 If you're working strictly with Affinity apps, probably the best workflow would be to use the Perspective and Mesh Warp tools in Photo, then manually trace the results in Designer for a vector shape. Not ideal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 Yet a very good plan b. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 7 hours ago, Mark Oehlschlager said: If you're working strictly with Affinity apps, probably the best workflow would be to use the Perspective and Mesh Warp tools in Photo, then manually trace the results in Designer Why not simply import live filters into Designer and directly manipulate the vector? IMG_3160.MP4 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 how’d you do that?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 I simply installed the live filters as assets in Designer. You can read about it here. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrPx Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 But the output, of that which is distorted, will be raster, not vector ? Quote AD, AP and APub. V1.10.6 (not using v1.x anymore) and V2.4.x. Windows 10 and Windows 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 @VectorCat I did not download the package of filters from the link above. Instead, I launched Photo, created a new document, created a layer group containing a placeholder shape, applied the Perspective live filter to the group, then copied that layer group and then pasted it into a Designer document. Lo and behold, the Perspective live filter came across in Designer and was functioning. I was even able to distort live text. The display rendering, however, can show some blurry anti-aliasing. In addition to using copy and paste to move a layer group from Photo to Designer, you can also save your Photo document and then open it in Designer. As another alternative, from within Photo, you can also select the menu command File > Edit in Designer... (Remember that the file format for all three Affinity apps is the same.) One crucial live filter that is missing, however, is the Mesh Warp. This is the filter you would need to convincingly warp art and text around cylindrical forms like bottles and cans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 Does this apply to AD for iPad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knute5 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Distort is the Great Pumpkin feature of AD. Affinity, please oh please oh please. This is the one thing that reluctantly sends me back to Illustrator. SrPx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Well so far not on iPad, but according to their website they are working on that, Amadine offers freeform vector distortions. - Another newcomer tool which is actually in BETA stages which seems then to offer some of the vector things Affinity Designer is missing (vector distortion, blend, autotrace, ...) is called VectorStyler, though that beta actually cores on my old OSX, thus I couldn't test it's vector distortion features so far. 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...
bordercross Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 The free beta of VectorStyler is very help in filling the gap where Affinity Designer lacks a Mesh Distortion/Warp/Transform tool. I was able to create a shape, warp it and then just copy and paste into Designer as an editable vector. Screen_Recording_2019-11-14_at_11_16.27_AM.mov BobsDaubs, jfcartier and Dazmondo77 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 +1 SrPx 1 Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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