Replacing a date on a flyer with the background colors and patterns which sourround it

[chasm]

I'm in the newbie stage of learning APub so I appreciate all your understanding and step-by-step help.

I have a flyer I wish to remove just the date and  replace it with the "background" color and pattern that surrounds that date.

Is there an easy way to do that in APub?

I've attached the flyer.

I don't have much time assigned for this task and don't have a change to use Apub regularly so I'm trying to learn on the fly.

Thank you!

 

 

 

[MEB]

Hi @chasm,
Welcome to affinity Forums
What's the file format/extension of the flyer? Certain formats keep the elements of the design as independent objects which you can manipulate (or in this case delete or hide) if you need to. If it's a "flattened" format/document (a single image containing all the elements of the design for example) then the only way is to try to recreate the background over the text to make it disappear as if you were editing a photo. Knowing the fie format of your flyer would helps us to advise you better. Even better, open the flyer in Publisher and take a screenshot of the application with the Layers panel visible and add it to your reply so we can see how the document is structured/built. Thank you.

[GarryP]

chasm: This might sound like a silly question but have you made sure that you can legally make a different version of that poster?

I only ask as the copyright for the poster may lie with the person/organisation which created the poster and not with the organisation which the poster was made for, unless they are one and the same.
Also, the person/organisation which created the poster may have a licence to use the images in the poster but you might not.
It’s worth checking so that you don’t end up doing something which you might later regret.

[chasm]

No legal issues as we created the flyer. I don't kwow if it's a "flat' flyer or not. How does one ascertain if it's a flat flyer or what form? We have it both in a PNG and jpg.  Thanks

[Andy05]

5 minutes ago, chasm said:

We have it both in a PNG and jpg.

Both are flat formats; neither JPG nor PNG support layers. Therefore, the font is "baked" into the background. You'd need to work with Affinity Photo's inpainting and/or cloning tools in order to remove and replace it. 

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, chasm said:

We have it both in a PNG and jpg

Both those are "flat". They can have only a single layer, in raster format.

Presumably at some point while you were creating it you had a different format, one that used multiple layers and vector functions for the text. 

You should have saved that original format, and ideally that's where you would start now.

With that you could simply delete that text layer. Without it, you are limited to raster approaches, such as painting over that text with a brush set to the background color. Or using the Clone Tool, or Inpainting.

[ac-13]

If you have Affinity Photo as well as Publisher, the Inpainting Brush Tool in Photo can be used. I did the attached quite quickly, inpainting on a new layer, and doing it one letter or period at a time. A little bit blotchy maybe but with more time and care could be improved.

If you only have Publisher, you could "overwrite" the text you don't want with a shape or shapes filled with a colour similar to the background (use eyedropper tool for that).

[NotMyFault]

All images in that flyer are top 10 stock images, easily to be found by image search and the keywords like blueprint (background, rotated 90 degree), idea, etc. It could be faster to re-create the poster from scratch.

[Alfred]

48 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

All images in that flyer are top 10 stock images, easily to be found by image search and the keywords like blueprint (background, rotated 90 degree), idea, etc. It could be faster to re-create the poster from scratch.

And if you want to use the same font for the title, it’s the open-source font Permanent Marker which is available from here:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/permanent-marker