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WOW!! Yes!!! Thank you so much @thomaso!! It totally works, right to the freakin edge So that's what "Protect Alpha" does. Below is a success-screenshot for others who may stumble across this thread in the future Ola

Ok, thank you for clarifying. Really appreciate your and the other peoples help.

Hello, I want to re-colour this raster image (not text), however as you see in the screenshot below, it doesn't completely cover it on the edges. I'm not sure why. Can someone please help? (Affinity V1, Mac desktop). Thank you! Ola

Ok...I will play with that. Once I start breaking and closing curves it all gets confusing and too many nodes. Thanks for your help!

Is this what you made with the instructions you gave me earlier? (ie. break the curve then join the nodes?)

Ok...I think i understand. And I think it's odd/frustrating that we can't join/merge a node in the middle of a path to another node (in any 2D vector editor). So, that being the case....what I will try to do, is create separate smaller rectangles with rounded bottoms and then lay them over the larger rectangle which I will adjust for perspective. Then adjust the smaller rectangles to fit the perspective of the big one.

Thank you so much for this, @v_kyr! This is another option for sure. The reason I went with the pen tool and paths, is because the rectangle (an awning of a building) is in perspective, so I needed to adjust the rectangle for that. Also, the bottoms of the interior smaller rectangles are curved, so it's faster and easier to create this with flexible paths.

To the line of the square. So I had first made nodes on the line, thinking that I could just hook them up easily. Apparently not.

Ok...I think I understand. It seems like a basic kind of thing, to just want to connect a new node on a path though. Don't get why it's not allowed. Thanks for your explanation and for clarifying superimpose.

Thank you for your welcome, @Alfred 😊 And for your help. However I don't understand. I am only trying to connect 2 nodes at a time (one on each end of the perpendicular line). Also, I don't know what it means to "superimpose"...do you mean simply leaving them unconnected but laying on top of one another?

Thank you, but (as you see in the top toolbar), "close curve" is not an option either when I select them.

Hello, I am trying to connect a line perpendicularly to create separate connected shapes in a rectangle (like making "shoebox" shapes within a larger rectangle). Can someone please tell me how to do this? I cannot seem to connect nodes mid-path. See screenshot below. Thank you for any help! So frustrating... Ola

Hi @Dan C Thank you for your welcome and quick reply, I really appreciate it! So I did finally find the flow options and toggle those you highlighted there, but they didn't change anything. However I did finally find what was the issue: It was the "inline text" button at the top (see attached), that was making the text begin in the middle of the page. Changed that to top, and it's all good again. OSM