Change shape/mask of an image without deforming the image
At the moment importing an image, the image is already masked with a shape. Great! But change the shape umproportional is not possible without deforming the image. Here I have to do it like in the past: Create a shape and mask the image (that still HAVE a mask!). Please make it more intuitive to change (also unproportional sizing and rotating!!) the shape/mask and the image inside separately in one step. Without creating an extra (double) mask!
That's the same way like InDesign! And there I can work very fast!
Matza
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We made a change in the way that we addressed the auto-fill to enable people to adjust the fill more like masks. This was to enable you to override them individually in special groups like repeat grid. You should be able to adjust the frame to however you’d like, then double click inside and adjust the image itself separately.
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Aaron Kwong commented
It doesn't seem like we can edit the mask independently of the image. Any time I adjust the mask, the image inside also gets transformed. I want to adjust the crop to the image placed inside, not vice-versa.
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Matza
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What means "We made a change in the way that we addressed the auto-fill to enable people to adjust the fill more like masks"?
At the moment I have to create a shape first, where I can drag and drop my image, when I'd like to change the aspect ratio of the image-frame. And drag and drop my image directly into XD makes the frame NOT adjustable. Is it right? Thanks. -
Matza
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Yes of course, that's the way I do it now, but I wonder why you then changed the old behaviour (before March 2018) from image without a frame to image included a frame, with that I now can change the cutout but not the frame itself? So in most ways I have still construct a mask! In https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/12930303-image-cropping-repositioning-within-shape-mask#{toggle_previous_statuses} the Adobe Admin Damian Borba wrote that they plan "to change this behavior, so that you could edit the mask and the image(s)/object(s) masked." So I wonder why you didn't do it? Because it would make image-work so easy (like in InDesign). Import or drag and drop and there is a mask already "in" the image. But the big problem is, that the work with image got worse since the March 2018 update. Because now I have TWO mask on/in one image. One proper mask (which I have to construct) AND the half mask, which comes automatically with the import. This leads often to confusion situations (see screenshot) where the automatic-mask cuts of (maybe because of responsive resize settings?!) and the constructed mask too when I try to resize the constructed mask … That's really too complicated and not intuitive. It could be so easy (like InDesign) …
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