picture frame with color / transparent

[OliverR]

As soon as I insert an image or logo into a picture frame filled with a color (image is transparent), the background color disappears and it becomes transparent. Why is this? And how can I fix this error?

[GarryP]

How do you “insert an image”?
What do you mean by “image is transparent”? Totally transparent, or something else?
What do you mean by “background colour disappears”? The colour gets set to None, or 0% Opacity, or something else?
What “becomes transparent”, the colour or the image, or something else?
Can you give us a visual example of what you mean?

[thomaso]

It sounds in your Context ToolBar the button "Clear Fill on Populate" is pressed.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, OliverR said:

As soon as I insert an image or logo into a picture frame filled with a color (image is transparent), the background color disappears and it becomes transparent. Why is this? And how can I fix this error?

We are going to assume you are using Publisher as that is the only application with Picture Frames.

Is the Picture Frame filled with colour as an attribute of the Picture Frame? That will disappear unless you change the little box next to the properties on the Context Toolbar as thomaso has indicated. This is set to on by default.

[thomaso]

14 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

This is set to on by default.

Good point. 

@OliverR, if you want to change this standard behavior + save it as your app default you can create a Picture Frame with the wanted settings and then choose menu Edit > Defaults > Synchronise from Selection, plus additionally Edit > Defaults > Save.

https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/objectDefaults.html?title=Object defaults

Note, unfortunately not every setting may get saved (e.g. fill color), also it appears such a custom default affects frames created with the Picture Frame Tool differently than those which get created via menu Layer > Convert to Picture Frame (respectively right-click menu): different to frames created via tool the menu-created frames appear to have issues with a custom Picture Frames Properties  setting which got saved as default.