In this video I wanted to share with you one of the new things in version 2 of Affinity
Designer and that is warping text. So this is something you couldn't do in the previous
version but in this version you can. I'll show you all the different ways that you
can do it and how you can use some of these techniques for t-shirt designs. Let's go!!
Hey everyone, it's Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I'm very excited to share with you
one of the new things that I found in Affinity designer 2. I've been using it for a while I
haven't tried everything but the one that thing that I'm very excited about is the warp Tech so
previously on version one you wouldn't be able to warp text you would only be able to put it
on a path but now in version two there's so many different ways that you can warp text I'm going
to show you all of the different ways how to do it in version two if you don't have version 2 go
to Affinity designer serif I think it's worth it to get the upgrade there's several other things
that I can do too but I think just this right here just warping the text is a great addition
to it so let's get into Affinity designer version two and I'll show you exactly how to do this so
here we are on Affinity designer two you can see it right here the first thing we're gonna
do is start a new project come in here file new it's kind of different than what version one was
but I did manage to set up a preset here you can see mine's 4 800 by 5400 you can start one
as well by just typing it in here page width and height and I'm just going to double click on this
and you can see I started a new artboard so first things first let's type something I'm gonna just
you're gonna see all the tools here are very similar to version one they just have like a
new style on it so I'm just gonna do the type tool right here and type let's do a word here
let's do Las Vegas maybe we want to do a Las Vegas t-shirt you can't see it so I'm going
to make a bigger same thing like we did before just grab the thing I'm going to do all caps
cool make sure that it fits in our window here and you can use any font yet you want
I'm going to go and use a slab serif font because I think that looks really great when we're gonna
do some of this warping stuff so I'm going to come in here I'm going to type in super
you may have this if you don't have it you can go to the internet and download it Superstar M54
you can see a very nice font here okay so now that we go here there's two ways to get to the
warp tool for this text so you can come in here and go to layer and then warp group and you can
see all the different things here but you can see that right here this mesh one there's a
shortcut and that is option command and G so if we want to do that and not go to the layer hold
down option command G boom and it will pull it up the first thing it's going to pull up is the
mesh but you can see you can do any one of these right here at the top so we're going to do mesh
first since that's the first one that pulls up but I'm going to show you how each one of these work
mesh is basically everything so if you want to move everything around you can
and you can see I can move anything move these handles whatever I want now this may be too much
for what you want to do but it's very powerful because let me go back you may have noticed some
style that's very popular right now and that is the vintage style with the wavy thing that that
you can do here so let's pull up a vintage font so let me um copy this I'm going to hold down option
and type on it and do one
Let's do let's do another font so you can see this vintage thing um I'm gonna do coaster
this vintage font here I'm holding down option and dragging so I can copy this I'm gonna do lucky
um teacher whatever you can do you can do anything okay so let's do let's do that on here so let's
say we want one like this and we want the warp feature remember option command G okay so remember
if you want a warp feature you can do that here make that bigger make the top the same now we can
do the warp feature on this one option command G again right so now we can fill it in here
look at that
and we can make this one
and you can play I'm doing it really quick but you can play around with all these
all these things here right and same thing with this one
option command G look look how you can do it pull this out make it Warp
now it takes it a little while but you can do any one that you want again play around with it this
isn't the greatest example of one but you can see it is possible in here to do it if you just
take some time all right so that's warp one of the other things to note is that it's putting it in a
warp group so if you want to ungroup it from this you definitely can you can also delete the groups
here so now it doesn't have that warp group on it so you can you can start new all right so
let's do this again Superstar here I'm gonna go the layers way this time layer warp group mesh
alright so we saw the mesh one where we can do everything the next one is quad
so basically you're just moving each quadrant is quad so moving that by itself
this can give it some nice perspective or you can like make it go out just one at a time
okay the next thing here is perspective where when you're moving one
it actually does do their perspective down and see it's kind of pinching it
so it's a little bit different than quad where it's kind of giving it its own perspective already
so if you want to move that there and that there it kind of automatically gives the the perspective
uh this one Arc this is Arc vertical and you can see it's arcing this way and you
can control this Arc with this right here so you can go both ways boom boom this is kind
of cool if you want to do like an arc this way and then another one with the arc this
way I think that could give it some really a really cool contrast right um let's go back
so next thing is Arc horizontal this is the one where it's kind of on a path
but if you want to make it the arch you can just pull these handles here
and straighten this out and now you have the arch where it's everything straight you may want to use
some guides to make sure that this is straight but I'm going to eyeball it here same thing here
pull this down pull this up whoops so this needs to be just like that and you can see just like
that I'm using Arch or Arc to do the arch so it's straight up like that and this is something you
could not do in version one none of this right all right so now that I've changed this I won't
be able to go back in there so I'm going to undo a command Z and there we go back to the warp so
let's see I can do oh Bend so it's bending it in the vertical again and you can move this here
this one's kind of neat but it's very hard to read Because as you get further and further it
just gets really wonky there so I'll use that with caution there's been horizontal the other
way again this one's very hard to read but you know kind of gives it some perspective there
that's kind of nice um fish eye again very hard to read when you like bow it
out but it's the middle part it's just moving the middle so it's kind of the
mesh thing but it's just moving that middle to give it that fish eye right
and lastly twist this one's kind of gets really hard to read but you can see if you just do a
little bit kind of cool so I love all of these different ways to warp it have fun with this
again use different fonts like this is a great one for like Athletics and sports and things and the
other one that other one let me pull that in that other font that I had coaster or something like it
let me let me do it here for you
whoops
so a font like this or something like some kind of vintage font would be really good for the
wavy text that I showed earlier so you can go in there and play around with it again option
command G quick way to do it and you can move and make things you know flow like this so if you want
the wavy font play around with these so lots of different ways to to warp your text I just wanted
to show you you can do it and you can come back in here and change the text too if you want to
um so if I wanted to come in here and say well maybe not um maybe not lucky maybe it's one and it
will keep it a little bit so you can kind of play around with it pull it around so you can always
delete it and start all over with the warp if you don't like it but I would keep the text by itself
some people change it to convert to Curves and you can but the only problem with convert to Curves is
you won't be able to edit the text so be cautious of that have fun with it play around with it lots
you can do so those are all the warp features that you can do here come on here and play around with
it warp group and you can see all of them right there or just remember to do the command option
G so I just wanted to make sure you knew where to go to get Affinity designer two you can see right
here affinity.serif.com and they have a bunch of apps actually so if you go here and hit buy
now you can see um you if you have a Mac you can get it from Mac if you have Windows you can get
it for Windows if you have an iPad and rather do it on that it's a different version so it's not
to be exactly how I how I showed it but you can do it that it's very powerful and you can get all all
three here Universal license for the different apps that they have so they have a Affinity
designer which is like illustrator Affinity photo which is like Photoshop Affinity publisher which
is like InDesign if you're familiar with Adobe products and you can get all three again uh
Mac OS and iPad version so there's a one-time price and the thing is these are this is a
one-time price it's not a subscription base so if you just want to buy it once um you can get
it 69 and that's it you don't have to pay for any subscriptions and they go on sale so at
the beginning of the year I think it was half this price and they typically go on sale once a
year so you have to if you want to get it on sale you have to wait and and find that so here it is
um very cool and you can read up and see the tech specs and all the different things it does they do
a good job here and they just released this last year so late last year so it's it's pretty new
and I'm still learning some things about it but I think it's a good thing especially with that that
warp feature that I just showed so that's the warp feature in version two let me know how you like it
play around with it uh let me know in the comments uh if you've played with it before if there's any
other warp things that you want to learn how to do if you're still using version one of course I
have this video right here where I go through the a whole tutorial of what Affinity designer
version one does it's very similar to version two so you can use some of this these same techniques
in version two if you need a tutorial for version two um you can watch that as well thanks again for
watching and as always guys keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one bye