Gill Brooks
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Thanks for the bad news
Looks like I'm stumped for the next week !
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I'm currently having to use my old Windows 8.1 PC while I do not have access to my Win 11 pc
I have downloaded the .exe installers but I'm still getting an error and they won't install. I have also set the properties to Win 8 in compatibility mode but still the problem occurs.
Help appreciated as I can't access my newer pc right now
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22 minutes ago, Alfred said:
DrawPlus is Serif’s original hybrid vector/raster application. Like all of the ‘Plus’ range, it only runs on Windows.
CraftArtist — aimed at crafters and card makers — was developed from DrawPlus, introducing some useful features such as ‘smart’ frames that allow the user to drag and drop a picture onto a frame (or vice versa) with the picture automatically adjusting to snap into the frame.
I freely admit to having Craft Artist 2 installed on my current PC and still often using it! I did use Draw Plus and Photo Plus many years ago
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Editable bracket shape I would love to see this addition to Affinity (was "Quick Frame" in CA2)
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It would seem that this simple question has created havoc.
As time is important to me, all solutions suggested are time consuming, so I have decided to switch between programmes to create what I need and hope that maybe one day, the developers at Serif may consider implementing this feature into the newer software.
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1 hour ago, markw said:
If you Group the decorative border image with Publisher’s Picture Frame to make one “object” you can then save it as an Asset in Publisher for easy future use.
Once saved as an Asset it can be dragged into any document, expand it, select the Picture Frame element and add your chosen image to it.Ah, yes brilliant - that worked a treat. Thank you immensely.
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3 minutes ago, Pšenda said:
... or draw rectangle into frame, and image clipped into rectangle.
That's basically what I did, but rather than a rectangle, I used curves, as not all of the frames that I have made are rectangular. Many are very odd shapes. Same principle though. Thanks
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16 minutes ago, Oufti said:
Outside of your "scratchy black frame", it must be opaque, not transparent.
Color that part of your "frame" image, leaving only the inside rectangle transparent.
Thanks
In theory, I thought that would work, but it just gave the same results as previously.
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12 minutes ago, thomaso said:
What do you mean or want: ANY way or SAME way?
Wow. To me your request gets more and more confusing. While you still don't tell what exactly "this" kind of "frame" is like, and what element exactly is the "frame" in this case and workflow.
In case you need it to be the same way then this thread appears useless – because if APub would offer the same way you would have experienced it accordingly. So I am not sure for what goal you created this thread / what answer you expect.
I don't want the exact picture frame per se, I want the workflow of doing it in that way as it was done in CA2. If you are unfamiliar with this concept, then I suggest you watch this -
Yes, I have found a way of getting a similar result in Publisher by creating my own frames using curves in Designer and converting it to a frame, then placing both images in the frame, but when I have deadlines to meet, this is very time consuming.
And to be frank, some of your replies and questioning my requirements are a little rude.
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31 minutes ago, thomaso said:
Something went wrong. How did you convert the image to a Picture Frame? Can you show a screenshot with this two objects in your APub layout together with the Layers Panel while you have the image selected with the Move Tool and the Picture Frame layer unfolded?
Below a sample how it can be done in APub: Once the frame image became nested correctly inside the Picture Frame Layer the second image may get placed below as second child layer of the Picture Frame. Like so:
To avoid any "flickering" in the uneven, not rectangular outer edge of your 'frame'-image you might need an additional step (e.g. if the second image is too large). Then for instance you can crop the second image with a separate, nested object, (e.g. with a rectangle via Vector Crop Tool, or any other shape), like so:
However, if you need or prefer an identical workflow as in Craft Artist you might rather stay with the known app – whereas I don't know Craft Artist and its explicit steps and options. Does it like APub offer the special interface of a Picture Frame to scale or move content? If yes, with the workflow shown above this APub feature might feel limited in its function because it works only for the main child (your 'frame' image, the one with the square icon in its thumbnail corner) while the second image would ge scaled or moved as usual with the Move Tool.
Yes, that worked at treat.
Obviously, unless they bring this freature in then I shall have to switch between programmes.
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34 minutes ago, Pšenda said:
Yes - but what is a Picture Frame necessary for? For some reason it doesn't suit the OP anyway, so what is its necessity for the purpose?
Similar to the original image posted in this thread, and the later one, again done in CA2 - I WANT this kind of frame for the work that I am doing.
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1 minute ago, Oufti said:
Frame seems not to have the same meaning in Craft Artist and Affinity…
So you won't find what is in the left panel in CA, but you can achieve the same. E.g. as shown by @thomaso.
That is shown in my images #2 & 3. Desont' work the same
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In reply to some of the above, I am going to show 3 screenshots. 1st is using the frame tool in Serif Craft Artist 2 (now discontinued). It creates the frame and the image is placed within it behind the image used to make the frame, the second screenshot is taking the same frame image into Publisher and converting it to a frame (duplicated so that you can see the original PNG with transparency, and how it's simply converted it to a rectangular frame, and the 3rd is showing the image placed in said frame.
To be honest, unless you are familiar with Serif Craft Artist, it really is pointless replying as what I'm looking for is the same ability in Publisher. Yes, I can use Craft Artist to get the result that I want, but it means to-ing and fro-ing between programmes. As we have the ability to create frames in Publisher, it would have been advantageous to have continued the feature.
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13 hours ago, v_kyr said:
Don't know Craft Artist, but you can always create your own (or reuse some third-party one) frame style (as vectors or raster/bitmap graphics) and clip an image to that. - For different frame types etc. see for example this thread ...
And for reusable storyboards & frames etc. take a look at/over ...
... you can reuse most of the stuff from there in Affinity apps too.
The screenshot is one of my own frames. It just works differently in Craft Artist to Affinity
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Craft Artist 2 is a Serif programme which is why I wondered why the same couldn't be implemented into Affinity. I'll have to carry on using CA2 to get the results that I want without the hassle and just export from there as PNG to bring into Affinity.....unless the team at Serif think it's a good idea to bring that function in
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Is there any way to create a picture frame to work in the same way they used to in Craft Artist?
Using PNG with transparency, in Publisher, it simply converts it to a square frame (tried both just converting to frame, and converting to curves,then convert to frame.
Attached is a screenshot of how it works in Craft Artist (yes I still have it installed and still use it !!
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I've had this happen a couple of times (currently on trial period), where I've forgotten to set the image preference to linked in the settings, so had this come up, but then when I click on "Yes" to change to linked, I get what you can see in the screenshot and it just hangs so I have to kill the programme in Task Manager. Also noticed in TM that crashpad_handler.exe running.
Win 8.1
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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For other reasons, I want to keep this old one as win 8.1 - that's why I resurrected it. Under normal circumstances, I use my newer Win 11 pc but that's not possible this week. I'm not messing up what I want to keep here for the sake of a week.
I also have a laptop which has all 3Affinities installed - it's just rather slow and chuggy for my work. But, it'll have to do for now