chuckg5 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 just downloaded afinity for windows 10 and am following the tutorials. Great stuff. but on the left side of tools there is no 'text' icon for putting in text. is there a trick i'm missing? many thanks chuckg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted September 5, 2017 Staff Share Posted September 5, 2017 chuckg, Welcome to the Affinity Forums. We sell 2 products Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. Make sure you are watching the tutorial for the one that you have. If you are, then make sure you are in the correct persona (button at the top) for example file types like RAW photos open in a develop persona that is appropriate to the sort of things you do with raw files, and they do not need the text button in that persona. 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...
chuckg5 Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 Hi, Patrick. thank you. i downloaded affinity Photo , complete 2 nites ago. but in the left tool bar, i have everything but the text icon. i tried different 'persona s but no text icon. please, where do i go for this? thank you chuckg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 The Text icon is near the bottom of the Tools panel. It's possible your screen resolution is set too low and thus not showing the bottom of the Tools panel Goto ... View > Customise Tools and near the bottom left of the screen change the number of columns to 2 and click Close. Then check if you can see the Text icon If you still have trouble please upload a screenshot with Affinity Photo open on your computer 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...
chuckg5 Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 Carl123 that was it exactly. now i've got to adjust resolution screen big enough to see normal text, ( i'm in my upper 60's) but small enough to get all of Affinity icons into the screen. so far I can not change the "1" setting in display to 2. working on that one. have windows 10 many thanks for the help. chuckg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryLearnTech Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 When you're in View > Customise Tools… mode, your tools display will change to something like the screenshot below. (On my Mac, I've deliberately made my window very small for this - yours will look slightly different, but the left hand region should be similar.) The Number Of Columns setting is in the lower left corner, as highlighted: After setting your new view, click the Close button that is located to the right of the columns pop-up menu. Cheers, Gary Quote —— Gary —— Photo/Designer/Publisher: Affinity Store, v2.4.n release Mac mini (M1, 2020), 16GB/2TB, macOS Ventura 13.4.1(c) • MacBook Pro (Intel), macOS Ventura • Windows 10 via VMware Fusion • iOS: current release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 41 minutes ago, chuckg5 said: so far I can not change the "1" setting in display to 2. I am not sure if this will work or if it is a Mac only thing, but if the problem is the popup selector for the number of columns is inaccessible because it is off-screen like some of the tool icons, try unchecking "Dock Tools" in the View menu & then click on "Customize Tools ..." below that in the same menu. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckg5 Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 Thanks, RC R that split the tool bar into 2 columns showing the rest of the lost icons. i then went back to personalize windows and increased the size back to where its big enough to comfortably see! GARY.... going your suggested way did not open up that window of columns choice at least not in windows 10. thanks for kicking in, thou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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