Affinity Publisher: Adding nodes to an image frame

[sbg]

Hey All!

Former Adobe user working from a Mac desktop.

I rasterized the first image in Designer and pulled it into Publisher. I wanted to use only part of the image as a repetition element in the design (without having to place all the variations every time, file size it not an issue) but it became apparent I cant just pull the frame in over the image so I cropped the image as far as it could go. As you can see in the second image there is a wee bit of gray in the top of the image on the right. Sometimes in Indesign I would add an anchor point (in Af. Publisher it would be a node?) and move it in with the direct selection tool to hide the unwanted bits. 

How do I add a node to the existing frame in Publisher? 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Is it going to be used over a white background (as it shows here)? If so, why not just paint over that little bit with a white brush?

[sbg]

Thats a great idea and yes Ill do it.

if I can do it the other way, that would will be useful knowledge as well.

 

Thanks for the advice!

[Wosven]

HI @sbg,

You said you rasterized the image. Why not using the vector part in APub directly?

[Wosven]

But, for other case, you can achieve what you wanted:

• Converting the image to curves:

 

 

• Or converting the image to Image frame:

 

 

[GarryP]

In addition to the advice above, you might want to have a look at Clipping, see attached video.

[Wosven]

7 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Clipping, see attached video

Nice example, but I'd rather open and copy SVG elements. But this one done with a raster image is an important workflow.

[GarryP]

I’m still curious, as you were earlier, as to why they rasterised it in the first place.
As you say, this is usually best done by extracting the necessary parts of the vector drawing, rather than clipping or masking or whatever.
It would be interesting to know if the rasterisation was deliberate for some reason or just something they happened to do because they thought it was right to do it.

[sbg]

 

I was missing a brush until I learned that photo persona would give me the eraser tool and the ability to move the nodes.

Great feature Affinity! 

[sbg]

18 hours ago, Wosven said:

HI @sbg,

You said you rasterized the image. Why not using the vector part in APub directly?

Thanks you for the info. I'll check it out!

The reason I (Newb) didn't use the vector image was because I don't know how to cut out (knockout?) a shape over a shape. I wanted the white to cut through the grey and rasterizing I had hoped was the path of least resistance given my knowledge at the moment. I had converted the original from a colour. (I need to take time to learn the process of doing that knockout)

As usual in designing, there are more than one way of doing the same thing and I want to understand those different ways

 

Thanks again for taking the time to send me the clipping video!

Edited September 1, 2021 by sbg
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[Wosven]

1 hour ago, sbg said:

The reason I (Newb) didn't use the vector image was because I don't know how to cut out (knockout?) a shape over a shape. I wanted the white to cut through the grey and rasterizing I had hoped was the path of least resistance given my knowledge at the moment.

You can alwaystest.

You open the elements in AD or APub, and copy-paste the ones you want, selecting them in the Layer panel if needed for precision:

You paste them in the document, and you can resize them and draw a shape to hide some parts, if needed:

 

And you can always try to cut or use some tool like the Intersection to take part of a design to paste in your document: