moving a png from photoshop to affinity

[jamesdickie]

I have a png that I have imported to Affinity Designer.  the current selection is "background (pixel)"  How do I select individual objects or text within the document?  I want to change color of text and also the logo, and I want to be able to separate parts and use them individually.

[MEB]

Hi jamesdickie,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

This is a flatten image file meaning it doesn't contain separated objects/layers. They are all part of the same layer.

To work with the individual elements, you have to vectorise them first manually, tracing the elements with the Pen Tool or using a third party software to perform the tracing automatically. Some web services can also do this, like Vector Magic. This will create an object from each element on the image.

 

After you have traced all the elements, you can manipulate them as you wish changing their colour, strokes, transparency, whatever...

For more information on how to use the Pen tool check this video. There's also an in-depth article/video tutorial about it in Affinity Review #1, page 39 (iBooks version). You can get it here. For additional videos check this page.

 

Let me know if you still have trouble.