Mr.

[Rob Hartman]

I'm still using Serif Photo Plus X6 and Serif Draw Plus X4. I know, very old, so I want to switch to Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Now I'm leaning with the Free Trials. I have a question about Designer, that I cannot find in the Help and Tutorial.

I want to make text on a colored background. In Draw I open the Frame Text Tool, type the text and choose color and alignment. Right-clicking in the frame opens a roll-out-menu with Format - Fill. Choosing that, I choose a color and there is my colored background in the frame. What can be easier?

In Designer I cannot found this possibility of coloring the background of the Frame Text Tool. I can find the menu Format - Fill, but that only changes the color of the chacters, not the background.

Can somebody help me?

Rob Hartman, Netherlands 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the fourms.
You can’t change the background colour of a Text Frame with Designer or Photo but you can in Publisher.
To give a Text Frame a background colour in Designer, you can put the Text Frame inside a rectangle (or other shape) and give the rectangle a Fill Colour (see attached image).
Other people may also give other methods.

[John Rostron]

@Rob Hartman, Welcome to the forums. You are not the first (nor will you be the last) to put 'Mr' (or 'Mrs') for a Title. This really should be labelled 'Subject' rather than 'Title'. In your case I would suggest you use 'Coloring the background of the Frame Text Tool'. Using a descriptive title is likely to bring in helpful replies (rather than nit-pickers like me).

If you wish, you can edit your Title. In your original posting, click on the Edit link near the bottom, and you can change it from there.

John

[Cecil]

4 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

This really should be labelled 'Subject' rather than 'Title'.

I agree 100%, yet so many resentments or negative post if someone suggest change to forum.

[wonderings]

26 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

@Rob Hartman, Welcome to the forums. You are not the first (nor will you be the last) to put 'Mr' (or 'Mrs') for a Title. This really should be labelled 'Subject' rather than 'Title'. In your case I would suggest you use 'Coloring the background of the Frame Text Tool'. Using a descriptive title is likely to bring in helpful replies (rather than nit-pickers like me).

If you wish, you can edit your Title. In your original posting, click on the Edit link near the bottom, and you can change it from there.

John

Personally I would go with GarryP's suggestion. If you just fill the text box the colour is always going to be right at the edge of the text. A colour box behind the text gives you flexibility for design and look. 

[telemax]