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Thanks @souacz. Are there any other standalone apps like Swish that are also options? I prefer to go the standalone desktop app route than a website to do the conversion.

This is a standard feature in Photoshop but I do realize that neither Photo nor Designer have any such feature. I am not trying to do anything complicated. The idea is to use a background image and add some simple animation. I am thinking basically a timed text message where words appear over 2 seconds on the image background, etc. Just looking for suggestions of software (paid or otherwise) that can let me do this. I am trying out Moho 12 Debut and like it but I realize that it does not let me export to the .gif format. Suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.

Excellent. And thanks! Will give this a go as well.

Thanks @v_kyr I will check them out. I just did spend some money at the Creative Market store and also purchased a chalk font package that comes with vector based backgrounds but it would be nice to learn how to create such backgrounds ..

Hi guys, I recently (last week) purchased both Designer and Photo. I am more of a general hobbyist who plans on using these a few times a year to do some simple Game Day Thread boards for my Hockey and Football forums. I have used Photoshop for these in the past and given my scarce usage I moved to Affinity. Back to the topic at hand, I am trying to create a simple chalkboard in Designer so that I can use it as a background for displaying some simple player statistics. Does anyone have steps on how to create a chalkboard background/gradient in Designer? It would help me out a lot if someone could provide me with this information. Thanks!