DavidDoesAffinity Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Cue violins! This morning I suffered a senior moment and found myself editing/modifying a Publisher DVD sleeve in Photo. I only discovered this after 15 minutes, when I could not find a way to change the colour of a text frame. Of course, once in Publisher, click click and done. Is there a way that I missed to change the colour of a text frame from within Photo? Also on the subject of text frames, has anyone found any third party ones that can be used and modified from within Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 28 minutes ago, DavidDoesAffinity said: Of course, once in Publisher, click click and done. Is there a way that I missed to change the colour of a text frame from within Photo? You might be able to remove the Fill by selecting the Text Frame and using Edit > Defaults > Revert, but there's no way to change it except by adding a matching rectangle of the color you want, as far as I know. 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...
Gnobelix Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Hello @DavidDoesAffinity, in Affinity Photo and Disigner there is no possibility to edit a text frame, this feature is only available in Affinity Publisher. As Walt has already mentioned, this function can in Photo be simulated with a rectangle. Cheers Quote Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3447) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidDoesAffinity Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 Thank you both for confirming I had not missed something obvious. walt.farrell and Gnobelix 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 5 hours ago, Gnobelix said: in Affinity Photo and Disigner there is no possibility to edit a text frame, this feature is only available in Affinity Publisher. If you are on a Mac for now you can take advantage of this trick to open the Text Frame panel in AD or AP & then save it as part of a Studio preset. There is of course no guarantee it will keep working in future builds but it does work in both the current Mac retail & 1.10.x beta versions. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidDoesAffinity Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 I should have been in Publisher...but for whatever reason I wasn't. I'm a PC user whose Braincell must have been on Windows 3 when I opened the file in Photo. I guess it's one of those errors you do once and don't do it again... without the "alarms" flashing.😁 Had the text frame been the right colour I may not have even realised I was working in the wrong app.😋 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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