lbohen Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 I want to edit the attached image. How?2021 CFM Products.afdesign Quote V2 Affinity products: Designer, Publisher & Photo Mac desktop with OS: Ventura 13.7.1
Alfred Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 You have a group within a group, for some strange reason, but when all’s said and done you have a single image with no editable text. I've seen that ‘Craftsbury’ image image before, without the typed text. Don’t you have, or have access to, a copy of the original? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Old Bruce Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 You don't say if you have a copy of Designer (or Photo or Publisher). Normally you would need Designer to edit the file. I say normally because the file is pretty much just an image, not a lot there to be edited beyond overall colour or contrast or cropping changes. You can't change the text or the colour of the text because it is not actual text, just part of the single image. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Alfred Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, Alfred said: I've seen that ‘Craftsbury’ image image before, without the typed text. I’ve just found it again, here: Also discussed in this thread: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, lbohen said: I want to edit the attached image. "Edit" is rather vague. What do you want to do to it? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
lbohen Posted May 25, 2022 Author Posted May 25, 2022 I at least want to change the 2021 to 2022 and some of the product list. Quote V2 Affinity products: Designer, Publisher & Photo Mac desktop with OS: Ventura 13.7.1
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 6 minutes ago, lbohen said: I at least want to change the 2021 to 2022 and some of the product list. Then you need to start with something that has real Text in it, not just a picture of Text. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
lbohen Posted May 25, 2022 Author Posted May 25, 2022 I saved the 2021 CFM Products image, designer in Designer, as an afdesign document and exported jpg and png versions. I thought saving the original design as an afdesign document would allow me to edit it. So I don't run into this situation again, how do I save a Designer document and have it be editable when I want to update it? Quote V2 Affinity products: Designer, Publisher & Photo Mac desktop with OS: Ventura 13.7.1
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 31 minutes ago, lbohen said: So I don't run into this situation again, how do I save a Designer document and have it be editable when I want to update it? You can't start with an image of the text. You need the original document with the editable text that they created the image from. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Alfred Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, lbohen said: I at least want to change the 2021 to 2022 and some of the product list. If you’re editing the product list, you might like to note that “potpourri” should have two Rs. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Alfred Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, lbohen said: So I don't run into this situation again, how do I save a Designer document and have it be editable when I want to update it? Keep the text on one or more separate layers, as in the attached file. 2022 CFM Products.afdesign Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
lbohen Posted May 25, 2022 Author Posted May 25, 2022 When I created the 2021 CFM Products image I added text into the document and added the background image separately. What might I have done wrong to result in the image I attached to this conversation? Quote V2 Affinity products: Designer, Publisher & Photo Mac desktop with OS: Ventura 13.7.1
Alfred Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 When you export to PNG or JPEG, the entire design is flattened to become a single raster layer, which means that you no longer have the editable text that you started with. You need to retain the *.afdesign file so that you can edit the text layer(s) as required. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
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