ennerdale Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 I want to move and resize an image within its frame, without altering the frame size. The manual says to do this by Selecting "Lock Children" from the context menu when the frame is selected with the Move tool. But... no "Lock Children" option is visible. Where is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @ennerdale. The context menu is the menu that appears when you right-click. The ‘Lock Children’ option should be displayed on the Context toolbar. What is your OS? On Windows you can toggle visibility of the Context toolbar via the View menu. 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...
markw Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Hello ennerdale, I’m not sure which Affinity app you are using but the UI is pretty much the same throughout. My screenshot’s from Publisher. Sometimes there’s not enough room for everything in the Context Toolbar if that happens then you will get a ‘chevron’ icon at far right of the context bar. If you click on that you can see the things that couldn’t be fitted in, like Lock Children. Quote macOS 10.15.7 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ennerdale Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 Hi Markw, Thanks for picking this up. It's Publisher I'm using. I have a wide monitor, so plenty of space for the context toolbar to show Lock Children. But the last item I get is Concert to Curves. Locked Children should appear after that, but doesn't, as you see below... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 11 minutes ago, ennerdale said: It's Publisher I'm using. I have a wide monitor, so plenty of space for the context toolbar to show Lock Children. But the last item I get is Concert to Curves. Locked Children should appear after that, but doesn't, as you see below... It looks to me like you have simply Placed an Image in your document, but the instructions you're looking at are for an image in a Picture Frame. Without the Picture Frame, there's no Lock Children button, and no need for one as there are no children. Alfred 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ennerdale Posted September 4, 2019 Author Share Posted September 4, 2019 Thanks Walt, that's very helpful. I now understand how this works. Richard walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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