Magic-design Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 ‘‘Twas so easy in pageplus. Any chance you can make it so, in publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 It’s pretty straightforward in the Affinity apps, too. Cover the image with a semitransparent shape such as a rectangle or a polygon, convert the shape to curves, use the Node Tool to edit it and then go to the Layers panel. Set the layer opacity back to 100%, drag the shape layer and drop it on the thumbnail of the image. Rick G and carl123 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicdesign__ Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 thanks for your feedback - i tried that and it didnt seen to work. Not sure what i was doing wrong. I found that there is a 'paste inside' option, which is a workaround. still not as good as having an irregular crop tool though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 23 hours ago, magicdesign__ said: thanks for your feedback - i tried that and it didnt seen to work. Not sure what i was doing wrong. Without knowing what happened and at which step in the procedure, I’m not sure either! 23 hours ago, magicdesign__ said: I found that there is a 'paste inside' option, which is a workaround. still not as good as having an irregular crop tool though. The ‘Paste Inside’ option gives you a clipping/nesting result (where the ‘clipview’ object remains visible) instead of a cropping/masking result (where the cropping object becomes invisible). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 NOTE: most of the below material was for Designer but in general Publisher works the same way... https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html?title=Layer masking https://www.frankentoon.com/post/complex-masking-in-affinity-designer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic-design Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 Thanks for the links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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