Phil_rose

This is my experience, yes.

I'm not sure but I think you may be misunderstanding what is happening. Let me try to explain it again and see if I can do a better job. I open Publisher and then switch to Designer. I then get the pen tool and draw a line. I then get the text tool and hover over that line until it turns into an I beam. I then click and type. The line remains intact and the same, as it was when I drew it as in the screenshot attached. If I then returned to Publisher I can change the properties of the line to make them non-existent. If I try within the Designer persona to change the properties (I'm attaching a screenshot that shows what happens when I make the stroke red and larger) it affects the letters but not the line which remains as it was, black. If I open Designer as a stand-alone application and draw a black line with the pen and then do the same thing to add some text the line that I'm drawing on disappears. If I go to the node tool I am able to adjust the beginning and end of the line. If I select this object (the invisible line and the text) and change the properties it only affects a text. So it seems like the workaround if you are using Designer but starting by creating the item in Publisher is to create the object in Designer, go to Publisher and remove the line in the Text Frame palette. This definitely seems like a bug. Shouldn't this action work the same in Designer whether one starts from Designer or from Publisher? The third screenshot I have added shows what CorelDRAW does which would be ideal. It makes the line and the text as two separate objects and nests them.

I THINK I did it all in AD.

OK. Seems like an omission rather than a... well, no. If it removes the line in Designer but NOT if you started in Publisher.. that seems like a bug. What I want is for it to behave like CoreDRAW. As you can see from the screenshot, it creates the text as a sub- object of the curve if that makes sense!

Weird. That's a bug, I assume? I did start in Publisher.

This worked as a workaround, thanks (going into Publisher) but no, it definitely keeps the line. I use the pen tool to make a line, select artistic text, click and write on the line, click away with the Move tool and the line remains. Is that what you are doing?

I have created a line in Designer and written text along. I now wish to get rid of the white line on which the text sits. I seem incapable of doing so without deleting the words too. This much be straightforward but I can't seem to do it. Can anyone help? Thanks! Phil

In case anyone is interested, my method is to find an image online of swatches, bring it into Coreldraw, trace it to produce all the tones as objects, export as WMF, bring into Publisher (or Designer) and create a palette from the document.

Just a palette with a bunch of flesh tones. Hope it might help someone! Flesh tones.afpalette

Plus one for view rotation with tablet ability eg ctrl+right click and pen drag to free rotate the view.

Oh, never mind. I had to have a raster layer for it to work. It works on adjustment layers or in Photo if you have a pixel layer selected. That's great and will be very helpful. Thanks very much, Phil

Maybe if you yell more stridently they'll put it into their programs for you more quickly!

Okay, that makes sense. I just opened a file that I use as a template and saved it as a template and then added the folder that it is contained within to the template dialogue and there it is. Thanks very much, I think this all makes sense now.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply! I have tried the Mac folder but that is empty also. They are all afdesign files. Do they have to be actual template files to show up? It's strange that they're giving away a whole folder contemplates that does not contain any templates!

Hi all, I downloaded the free templates from the Affinity website but when I go into Designer and click open and templates and then Add Folder it seems to think that the folder is empty and it is not seeing any of the templates. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much, Phil PS in the screenshot the Explorer pane showing is what I see when I click Show in Explorer so you can see that it is the correct folder.

Right but I want to add the text while I can see what I'm doing. Thanks.

So it is. Thanks. Weird that they would put it there but not in Designer. Thanks anyway!

Hi all, I create a circle in Designer (which I access from Publisher) and I write some text around the edge of the circle. I now can find no way to either delete the circle nor to change the colour of the circle to white so that it does not show up. If I change the colour of the outline it changes the colour of the outline on the text and not on the circle. Similarly if I change the colour of the fill it only applies it to the text. I am aware that this has converted the circle to a text frame and according to another thread here that I read I'm supposed to open a pallet called Text Frame but I have no pallet by that name under View>Studio so I see no way of accessing that. Can anyone please help as this is driving me mad! Thanks very much, Phil

Hi all, I too am having this problem and cannot make it work. I draw a circle and then I select text tool and type the words on the line as shown in the attached screenshot. I can now not have any effect on the properties of the circle. I understand that it may have turned into a text frame but I cannot bring up a text frame palette since it is not an option under VIEW> studio. Can anyone help?

I'm pretty sure that Serif are hoping to get photographers to switch from other, more successful products to theirs. Now, I think about which product might be more successful than AP that they might want to persuade people to switch from and I come up with, hmm, I know, Photoshop! How happy or otherwise they are isn't really that much of a concern for me. And I am pretty sure a corporation like Serif is made of sterner stuff than you are giving them credit for. If anyone from Serif read my original post and would like to come out with an official statement from the company that they would rather NOT hear from people what elements of a more successful program would help to keep people as their customers because it hurts their feelings they're welcome to do so.

Title says it all, really. I am going through a stack of images all of which have to go through Portrait Pro and I have to go Filters>Plugins>Anthropics>PortraitPro. If I could Press Ctrl+L (or some other shortcut) and it would pop up the last used filter (as PS does) that would be nice. Thanks! Phil

Ah, I see. I just updated the beta to 1.8 and it works correctly there. But not sure if it's what you talked about with a freshly opened app. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks!

A very good point. I am actually sharpening in NIK Sharpener Pro 3 as a Plugin. I should try your method though and see who does a better job. Thanks! Phil

Oh, that kind of makes sense. In PS the layer behind the mask would still be visible as a thumbnail but with the mask on top. I paint onto the mask as you suggest and it works BUT look at the screenshot here. I turned off the bottom layer and paint and the pic shows up as I paint on the mask but neither the mask layer nor the picture layer behind it shows that as a visual representation. Once the layer has turned black (both the mask and its source layer) nothing can be done to make the thumbnail represent what is going on. Is that really true? Seems weird and like a bug to me. Thanks! Phil