Puppet Pin

Distort · Added in version 4.2.0

Bends the layer like a puppet: put pins on it, then drag or animate the pins and the picture follows them smoothly.

Puppet Pin bends a layer with pins. Turn on Add Pins and tap the layer wherever it should bend, up to 32 pins. Then turn Add Pins off and drag a pin on the preview, or tap its X or Y value in the list to type a position. The picture under a pin you drag goes with it, pins you do not move hold the picture where it is, and a new pin on a layer that is already bent leaves the picture as it is.

• Falloff sets how the bend spreads: higher values keep it close to the pins you move, lower values spread it smoothly over the layer.
• Tap a pin's name to choose its Pin type. Position pins move the picture and curl it smoothly. Bend pins also have a Rotation and a Scale that turn and grow the picture around them. Stiff pins hold their part of the picture in shape and cannot be dragged.
• Triangle Density sets how fine the mesh that bends the picture is, and Mesh Expansion makes the mesh reach past the layer's edges.
• Sway makes the pins swing by themselves: Sway Amount, Sway Speed, a Sway Direction (an Angle or Random) and a Sway Seed. Sway Pins swings all pins, or only the Selected ones, the pins whose Sway this pin is on.
• To animate a pin, tap its name in the list and use the keyframe button as for any setting. See Keyframes and easing.
• The arrow next to a pin moves it back to where its part of the picture started, which takes away that pin's bend. The bin deletes the pin and its keyframes.
• Apply to Children bends the child layers too, as if they were part of this layer's picture.
• Put pins on the parts that should stay still, such as the body when you move an arm.

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