ADOBE EXPRESS

Warp wonder

The image warp Express was missing.

Express can place an image and resize it – but it can't bend it. No perspective, no mesh, no wrapping a graphic onto a surface. Warp Wonder adds eight kinds of warp, an on-stage gizmo to drive them, and export as a crisp still or a smooth animation – so you can match a mockup's perspective or sculpt type into a shape without ever opening Photoshop.

Live preview

PREVIEW

Grab a corner and pull. The image follows in real time, perspective, bulge, bend, ripple; and rounded corners stay correct through every warp. When it's right, export it clean.

Key features

Eight ways to warp

Corner pin (free four-point perspective), perspective (constrained, for clean architectural work), skew, mesh (a nine-point grid for organic sculpting), sphere (bulge and pinch), stretch (wrap around a cylinder), arc (bend along a curve), and wave.

Drive it on-stage

A gizmo right on the image: scale from the corners, stretch per-axis from the edges, rotate from the top (hold Shift to snap to 15°). A rounded-corner control rides every warp type and stays correct even in perspective.

Match a real scene

Import a reference photo as a backdrop and match its perspective by eye, with an opacity slider to dial it in. Non-exporting guide grids – square, isometric, one- and two-point perspective – help you line things up. Then optionally bake the reference into the export, either as one flattened image or as background-plus- warped-image on two separate layers.

Animate the distortion

Capture two looks and Warp Wonder tweens between them, previewed live. Easing (linear, in, out, in-out) with a strength slider, adjustable duration, and ping-pong loop.

Export that behaves

Crisp transparent PNG, MP4 (H.264 – and it works in Safari, where many browser tools fall back to GIF), or transparent GIF (auto-reduced to stay under Express's 10MB limit). Undo and redo throughout.

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