[Strange Callout behavior]

I agree with vfxwolf. I find the callouts a pain to work with. I find it easiest to superimpose a plain text box onto or within the callout shape then keep having to make the tedious adjustments until it fits. Is there some technically insurmountable obstacle as to why the callouts can't be as easily adjusted for fitting text as a regular text box? When a shape is converted to text box the shape cannot be manipulated except in size, so then if I "convert to curves" it also converts the text to individual text boxes and makes altering the text a big pain and easier to just start over. It would be very nice if there were a convenient way to go between curves and text box mode to alter text and shape as needed. It would be ideal if the text could be selected and independently rotated without having a separate text box imposed on the shape. 

[Cutouts]

As I mentioned in my first post, I know the technique, but what's frustrating is that the "cutout"  is just the photo with background removed rather than an actual cutout shape independent of the original. So the result is that when you want to put a bunch of clustered images close together, you have all this overlap from the rectangular box around the image. The previous versions of Page Plus gave me an isolated image. So that's my question- why can't we do that with Designer? of Photo? 

[Cutouts]

I have used all the iterations of desktop publishing from Serif since Page Plus X5. I find it quite annoying that the obsolete program was much more user friendly for making picture cutouts that were simple and effective and actually cutout the shape without keeping a rectangular box around the shape. I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get the proper cutout from the embedded affinity photo cutout feature. The "refine" process is too confusing and so I try all the options to see what I will get and in the end, it still will not just do a simple cutout. IMO, this is not an improvement and would you please fix it!