Frankled Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I am trying to design a badge for my walking stick by opening a pic file of the shape of the badge to scale then copying a pic in another application and pasting it into the badge but when I go to Edit/paste all the options are greyed out. I have done it once but can't remember how. See Blank badge.bmp Blank badge.bmp I have attached my sole success to show what I am trying to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Did you have some question, or are you just showing us a sample of your work? Which application are you using? 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 23, 2022 Staff Share Posted August 23, 2022 The formatting on this post was all over the place, making it hard to tell what was being said, hence walt's comment (all the text now visible was hidden behind the inserted bmp (very odd). I tidied it and moved it to questions. Hope that is OK @Frankled walt.farrell and Alfred 2 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 On 8/20/2022 at 4:54 PM, Frankled said: copying a pic in another application and pasting it into the badge but when I go to Edit/paste all the options are greyed out On Windows, all paste options will be greyed out in the Affinity apps if you do not have a document opened in the app If you have a document opened then the paste option called "Paste without format" should be available and should work Not sure why the standard Edit > Paste command does not work for copied (from File Manager) BMP, JPG, PNG files is not available. Maybe someone else could explain that? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Is this what you're wanting to do? I used the Pen Tool to outline the badge shape. Then used the Node Tool (it's located on the Pen Tool fly-out), to push the lines into the curved lines for the badge. Then simply hide the background. 2022-08-23 03-42-55.mp4 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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