paleolith Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 OK, I know I need a lot more study on manipulating picture frames and pictures. But this seems odd. I generally have no trouble at least placing a picture in a frame, but in this case the picture gets placed outside the frame but still connected. When I click the center button in the frame, I can see the most-transparent image somewhere -- not just partly outside the frame (I think I understand that) but entirely. In the attached screenshot, I have created the frame, left it selected, placed an image, and clicked the mouse on the frame-center button. (I know there's a name for it, and I will look it up tomorrow.) The screenshot is taken on a timer while I'm holding the mouse click-down. In this case, you see the image just outside the frame, but I've also had it appear at the upper left corner of the page. I have deleted (undone that is) the frame and recreated it many times. I have saved the document, quit AfPub, and reopened. Irfanview showed the DPI blank, so I entered 72 and saved. I used Photoshop Elements to crop a tiny slice off and resaved. None of these made any difference except possibly the location of the placement as mentioned above, and if there's a correlation, I did not notice with which action. I don't doubt that I'm missing something about how this works, but what is it that I'm missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 You’re not missing anything, it’s the way it works and fools me occasionally. Drag the ghost image across to the frame or use the picture frame anchor option window to centre it. paleolith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 The centre object is called the Arrowed Pan Control or Pan Controller and as you know enables you to position the image within the frame. paleolith 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thomaso Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 8 hours ago, paleolith said: and clicked the mouse on the frame-center button If you click & hold the mouse button pressed the ghost image occurs. To get the image auto-moved back to the picture frame position it needs a double-click anywhere in this central circle. paleolith 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleolith Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 40 minutes ago, thomaso said: it needs a double-click Ah-ha. That's the biggest thing I was missing -- thanks! @Return That looks like the image was first placed without a frame, and then moved into the frame -- am I interpreting correctly? Is this a better method than placing in the frame to start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Just another option/feature paleolith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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