Saving and importing effects

[David Br]

I have made text with particular effects which I want to apply to more text.  How does one save a set of effects and then import them to apply to the new text?  At the moment, it seems as if I am going to have to write all the effects out and apply them to each individual lot of new text, but surely I am missing something?  

[thomaso]

Your options may vary with the used app and effect layer types. For instance if applied as layer effects you may copy the object selected with the Move Tool and then select the target object and choose "Paste FX". Note that the option "Scale with object" in the Layer Effects Panel influences the result pasted for another object.

In case the FX are separate layers ("Live Effects") you can copy these layers and place them accordingly to you target text object. Or just use them for both text frames with the according layer hierarchy.

[walt.farrell]

Or, possibly: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/CurvesShapes/styles.html

[v_kyr]

First of all you have to tell for which apps and what sort of text (aka Artistic Text, or mass Frame Text) effects. - So if for smaller Artistic Text where reusability Styles (as Walt suggested) are the way to go, as Styles (for the Styles Panel here) can also imply any applied FX effect setups. - For bigger page wise frame text portions, like things used in APub, there are other paragraph style methods to set these up.

[David Br]

I should have said I am using Designer 1.

[David Br]

Tried the 'paste FX' but it pasted the wrong FX!  

[R C-R]

5 minutes ago, David Br said:

Tried the 'paste FX' but it pasted the wrong FX!  

What object did you copy to the clipboard immediately before using Paste FX?

[v_kyr]

2 minutes ago, David Br said:

Tried the 'paste FX' but it pasted the wrong FX!  

Did you copied at all the right one from a first selected object?

For ADe v1 Styles see ...

• Styles

  The Styles panel adds effects, fills, and line/text attributes by drag and drop.

• Styles panel

  The Styles panel lets you apply pre-designed drag-and-drop styles to your object.

• Removing text styles

  Removing text styles from text and from a document.

• Importing styles

  How to import styles in your Affinity app.

• Using text styles

  Text styles can be applied to text within your designs for efficiency and consistency.

• Text Styles panel

  The Text Styles panel is used for storing, applying and controlling text styles.

• Text style types

  Exploring text style types: paragraph, character and group.

• Creating and managing text styles

  Creating and managing text styles for future use.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, David Br said:

Tried the 'paste FX' but it pasted the wrong FX!  

I assume there is no "wrong FX". Means, copied effects get pasted + not copied effects do not get applied.

Maybe certain parameters of certain effects differ between copied and pasted?

[David Br]

Thanks to all for your guidance.  Being a numpty, I was expecting somehow to save FX settings which would be identifiable, importing them as required.  I had not realised that by copying a section of text, one could then import (or rather paste) just the effects.  I now understand.

There are ways and means that are obvious to those who are familiar, but not to those of us who are less familiar with the software.  The 'Help' pages sometimes assume the user has greater knowledge, skill or experience than is the reality.  

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, David Br said:

I was expecting somehow to save FX settings which would be identifiable, importing them as required.

You need to distinguish between "Layer FX" and "Live Effects": while the first are properties of 1 object (its layer) the latter are separate layers, additionally to the affected object. Though there is no "save effect" option you can store such settings / objects / layers in the Styles panel respectively the Assets panel for repeated use at any later time. Styles and Assets may get exported + imported but usually remain available for every document once they were created ("saved").