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Thanks, will do so, when I find out where to look! Barry

I'm getting there slowly, by cross-checking Affinity specific problems, plus following YouTube tutorials. I've found the way to resize by pressing a lock symbol, which prevents auto-resizing. That's one down. The next was to rasterize, and then place an empty text box on the left side of my future book cover. This allowed me to see the 'Inlooker Back Cover' that John Rostron could see but I couldn't. Then I deleted it by putting it in the dustbin., before adding the required text. John's layman's description of the CROP command as being the' harvesting' of what is selected was not helpful. Coming from Publisher, which has a fatal flaw in it, the descriptions used are understandable, like cropping = cutting out unwanted areas of an image. I still cannot see how to use the CROP tool. Now I have published my book cover to Amazon, and will alter it later, when I get to grips with text colors and providing a darker background to the text, in a block. Alpha is an intriguing product, but it is riddled with idiosyncrasies. My overall impression is that I've chosen the wrong product, but I didn't know about Designer, etc. It is overkill. Also, some of the tutorials are naive, like showing the main Affinity work area recolored black, which means that I cannot see what is being done. The clue comes when the designer changed the minute text to white, but didn't say how. I may have to stick with MS Publisher for the straightforward tasks of book assembly, then transfer the lot across for PDF export. The presentation of tools and other components is excessively dark and small. It's going to test my eyesight to the extreme on a Windows PC. Regards, Barry

Hi Walt, I've done the rasterization, and now need to get it into text format, but the initial selection of the text Frame suddenly spreads over half the total area. I tried filling it, but had to reduce opacity to see the original layout.

Thanks for the swift response. I am designing a cover for a paperback book, as attached. On the left is a block of text that appears on the back cover. As a previous MS Publisher user, it was a simple matter of using CROP on the selected image and remove the unwanted sections of it. I can select it using the Crop Tool, but from thereon in, can find no way of deleting it. I can overtype using a superimposed Text Frame, but not highlight and replace the existing text. Nor can I see it mentioned in the Layers panels on the right of the screen. It is frustrating because I am so near yet so far away. The apparent absence of an Undo symbol is causing me no end of a problem when I go wrong. LittleCarWentBeepBeepB.afphoto

AFFINITY PHOTO - WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT FOR THE DESIGNER TO CONVEY INSTRUCTIONS CLEARLY? FOR EXAMPLE, IN LAYMAN'S TERMS, CROP MEANS TO DELETE A SELECTED AREA OF AN OBJECT. WHERE IS THE ASSOCIATED DELETE COMMAND? I AM TRYING TO DELETE SELECTED EXISTING TEXT. PRESSING DELETE DOES NOTHING!