Creating Frame Styles

[Sheldon Lyttle]

HI Everyone, 

I am a bit of a newbie to the affinity suit so please forgive me if this is an obvious question.

I have a LOT of image frames in a large family history book I am working on, and I am concerned that if I need to make changes to styling of these frames, I am going to have to go through the entire book and adjust them one at a time.

I was looking for something like text styles where I could centrally manage a particular style for frames, but so far haven't found anything. 

Maybe I should be trying to do this through master pages in some way?... the trouble is I just want it applied to a particular set of image frames within a page.

Any suggestions?

-Sheldon  

[dominik]

16 minutes ago, Sheldon Lyttle said:

I was looking for something like text styles where I could centrally manage a particular style for frames, but so far haven't found anything.

Hello @Sheldon Lyttle,

welcome to the forums.

In Affinity Designer there are Styles but they do not work like text styles. You can't modify them after they were created.

The best thing you could use is Symbols in Affinity Desiger (or Affinity Publisher's 'Designer Persona'). Symbols allow you to create a complex object and to synchronize its appearance across many copies of it.

A good tutorial on how they work can be found here:

 

d.

[Sheldon Lyttle]

Wow!  Thanks Dominik!   That is a really cool feature! ... not sure it I can adapt it for my purpose here, but I am certain I will have use of this elsewhere.

Cheers,

-Sheldon

[loukash]

1 hour ago, Sheldon Lyttle said:

if I need to make changes to styling of these frames, I am going to have to go through the entire book and adjust them one at a time

1. select one picture frame object
2. Select menu → Select Object → Picture Frames
3. all picture frames in document are selected
4. now you can adjust attributes for all of them via context toolbar or various panels

[loukash]

1 hour ago, Sheldon Lyttle said:

Maybe I should be trying to do this through master pages in some way?

45 minutes ago, dominik said:

The best thing you could use is Symbols in Affinity Desiger

Master pages are in fact kind of "symbols". (At least according to a staff reply to one of my posts a while back, both object types apparently use the same backend technology; and also Photo's Linked Layers do.)

So depending on the goal and document structure, both methods can be a viable option.
There are often many ways to reach the desired result.

[Sheldon Lyttle]

Wow ... what a great community there is here!   I WAS actually able to make the symbols technique work for me, and I can also see how the global select would work as well.... Thanks for all your lightening fast help! 

Edited January 27 by Sheldon Lyttle