Twisting and Distorting Bitmap Images

[gwpriester]

Only the Mold Tool Perspective envelopes work with bitmaps. This is a feature that really needs to be updated.

[Joelle]

Have you tried the Deformation filter in the Live Effect Tool (Ctrl+F5)?
:-)
Joëlle

[handrawn]

Only the Mold Tool Perspective envelopes work with bitmaps. This is a feature that really needs to be updated.

true, I'd forgotten.. these days i use affinity photo warp tool on bitmaps; as you say [in so many words] this in an area in which xara is still lighting with oil lamps as opposed to cooking with gas...

[gwpriester]

CorelDRAW back in the mid 90s when I switched to Xara had a lot more powerful mold tool for distorting photos. I have not used DRAW for years and so I have no idea what it can do now. My guess is that distorting bitmaps is not easy with the existing code.

[handrawn]

you may be right... there is no such thing as a 'bitmap' in xara in absolute terms, its a bitmap filled shape; distorting the shape enelope is ok, distorting the fill a different ballgame