walt.farrell Posted February 25, 2023 Posted February 25, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. If you are on a Mac, that might be controlled by the highlight color you have configured for the system. I am not sure if there is a similar setting for Windows. On Windows (and probably on Mac), if you are using Publisher or Designer, you can add a Layer (Layer > New Layer from the menu). You can then right-click on the Layer in the Layers panel, and choose Properties, and then you can assign a color to the Layer. That color will be used for the bounding boxes, and selection highlight color, for any objects you put into that Layer. 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
STUDIOM@RI Posted February 25, 2023 Author Posted February 25, 2023 Thanks for the reply. Yes, I use a Mac. My display color of the selection is turquoise but the Affinity suite doesn't respect it. Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 25, 2023 Posted February 25, 2023 The text will always be Blue. The Layers panel shows the Turquoise highlight you have chosen. I don't know why the Mac's System Preference is not being honoured for text. 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.
walt.farrell Posted February 25, 2023 Posted February 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: The text will always be Blue. On Windows you can change that using a Layer as I mentioned. That should also work on Mac, but I agree it's odd the system highlight isn't used by default. 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Staff Callum Posted March 1, 2023 Staff Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/25/2023 at 6:08 PM, walt.farrell said: On Windows you can change that using a Layer as I mentioned. That should also work on Mac, but I agree it's odd the system highlight isn't used by default. This is something I have brought up in the past and was told was by design however I'm not exactly sure of the reason for this I'm afraid. Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
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