Harro Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 I'm new to Affinity and this forum so apologies if this has been covered before. I'm trying to add text to a photo using the ellipse and frame text tools in Photo. However, when I drag the frame text tool into the ellipse and click left, the fill colour disappears. How do you retain the fill colour? Thanks in advance.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Hello @Harro and welcome to the forums. The shape becomes a text frame when you click on the shape with the Frame Text tool. You can draw a text frame over the shape by holding down the left mouse button. Harro 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harro Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 (edited) Thank you so much!!! Problem solved. Very grateful for your swift reply. Happy days! Edited July 26, 2021 by Harro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harro Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 33 minutes ago, Komatös said: Hello @Harro and welcome to the forums. The shape becomes a text frame when you click on the shape with the Frame Text tool. You can draw a text frame over the shape by holding down the left mouse button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 You are welcome! cubesquareredux 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderstone Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Thank you for the reply, I'm having the same problem. Isn't there a way of linking a filled shape with the text without losing the fill? After the pentagon appears when the cursor is hovered over the filled shape, after Frame Text Tool is selected from the menu, a message appears at bottom left of screen: 'Click to convert Rounded Rectangle to Text Frame'. When clicked, the conversion is made and now dragging the shape takes the text with it because, presumably, the shape is now the text frame for the text. But the shape loses its colour. It seems odd that the fill disappears, I can't see an advantage in that for the user. A solution would be wonderful! (Putting a text frame over a shape is handy, thank you for the idea, but moving one of them leaves the other behind so they have to be re-aligned and fiddled with!) cubesquareredux 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 1 hour ago, cyderstone said: Thank you for the reply, I'm having the same problem. Isn't there a way of linking a filled shape with the text without losing the fill? After the pentagon appears when the cursor is hovered over the filled shape, after Frame Text Tool is selected from the menu, a message appears at bottom left of screen: 'Click to convert Rounded Rectangle to Text Frame'. When clicked, the conversion is made and now dragging the shape takes the text with it because, presumably, the shape is now the text frame for the text. But the shape loses its colour. It seems odd that the fill disappears, I can't see an advantage in that for the user. A solution would be wonderful! (Putting a text frame over a shape is handy, thank you for the idea, but moving one of them leaves the other behind so they have to be re-aligned and fiddled with!) The Fill and Stroke of the shape will be removed when you convert it to a Text Frame in Designer or Photo. They will be retained in Publisher, because Publisher also has the Text Frame panel in the Studio which allows controlling the Stroke and Fill for the Frame. If you want to use Designer or Photo, and you want your shape to be a Text Frame, and you want to retain the Stroke and/or Fill: Duplicate the shape, then Convert one of them to a Text Frame, and then Group the Text Frame with the remaining shape so they stay together. cubesquareredux and cyderstone 2 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...
cyderstone Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Thank you very much for your reply. You understood my difficulty and gave a clear solution. It worked, and I learned a bit about Groups, too. I appreciate your help, it was good of you. I would never have been able to work that out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 You're welcome 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...
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