JackieDe

Fantastic, thanks @MEB and all other for replying my question, it turned out that displaying the "text frame" window was the easiest solution for me. 🙂 I learn a lot from this forum, so thank you all!

Hi, I am currently trying to draw text along a path that I have painted, which works flawlwssly. However, after I have done that, I have both, the path itself, and the text. What I want is the path only as a helper construct, which should not be visible when published or printed out. So how can I achieve that the path itself is not visible in the output, but only the text alongside the path? When I try to change the border thickness of the path, the thickness of the text border is changed. So I see no possibility to alter only the appearance of the path anymore. Any hints? Thank you very mucht!

Hello, I have noticed that I cannot add an unsharp mask layer sucessfully on a background layer, i.e. I can select "Unsharp mask" from the Effects menu, but however any changes there will not be applied to the image on the background layer. I always have to move the image to another layer, which is complicated if you only want to unsharp mask an existing JPEG image. Any way to make that work or is that behaviour intended?

Hello, I wonder why I cannot simply copy a selection (I have only one layer) using Ctrl-C to the clipboard. However, in affinity, when I use the selection tool ("M"), and then press Ctrl-C, the whole image is copied to the clipboard, not only the selection. I don't know any other program that behaves like this. How can I copy a selection to the clipboard?

Thank you carl for the explanation, I will try the macro solution, but as a really new user to Affinity I am really puzzled a bit why this is the default behaviour. Any other program I know, including an older photoshop elements (version 14 or so) does crop the transparent part by default, why not Affinity? This should really be standard, or at least an option, just my opinion.

Hello, I would like to correct the rotation of some images, anduse the straighten tool which is very convenient to use using the metering tool. However, what I am missing is an automatic crop function to get rid of the "white" parts that logically appear when rotating the image. Of course I could crop manually, but I would like an option to automatically crop out all the transparent stuff without losing too much of the image, i.e. a crop to rectangular with the least loss of image size possible. I am wondering why there is no such option, or am I missin gsomething? I find this to actually be the default for most other tools that have a similar metering-tool. Thanks!