leninck Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Hi, I have just moved from Adobe Photoshop to Affinity Photo and searching how to draw text over a circle (text in circle shape). can you please help me here. Regards Lenin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Use the shapes tool called Ellipse to draw the circle and then use the Frame Text tool to convert it into a text frame, you do this by clicking in the circle you have drawn. Pleas note that there is a caveat to this, the conversion will get rid of any stroke and colour in the circle so it may be best to duplicate the circle first. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leninck Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 Hi, Thanks for your reply, I was able to draw Ellipse to draw circle but couldn't find Frame Text tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leninck Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 I got the Frame Text tool but not able to type on the curve... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I think Old Bruce's instructions were for turning an ellipse into a shape that you could fill with text, not for typing text on the ellipse. That's not a function that's available in the user interface of Photo at this point. It's only in Designer and Publisher. It will be in Photo in 1.9, though, and is in beta testing there now. There are a couple of macros available here in the forums that will let you do it in Photo now. Here's a post with one of them: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leninck Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 Yes Walt, Thank you. I was looking for this only. do you have any idea when this feature will get incorporated in Affinity Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 1 minute ago, leninck said: Yes Walt, Thank you. I was looking for this only. do you have any idea when this feature will get incorporated in Affinity Photo? It is in the current Beta, 1.9.0.xxx Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leninck Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 Great. looking for this Version soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Sandoval Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I have the same problem this is really easy to do with publisher i dont understand how is not implemented in Photo Thx for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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