So happy to hear that! Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment :)

Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment! Just to clarify my understanding of your question, are the blanks within an overall image, in other words, they're sitting within a background but are blank so someone could add their design? If that is the case, turning them in to a picture frame wouldn't be the way to go because it would turn the entire image in to a picture frame, including all of the space around the object. Even if it was an isolated png, and padding around the object would be included in the frame. You're better off isolating that individual item, within the image, and creating a mask around that layer, so that when they drop and drag anything on top of it, it confines it to that individual object. For that, Photo would be a better option, or, using StudioLink, within Publisher, to jump in to Photo to use selection tools (you would need to have Photo on your system to do this). I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions about the above. Thank you again for watching!

Thank you and thank you for watching!

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!!

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Thank you very much, for watching, and taking the time to comment!

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment!

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Thank you for watching, Linda! Thank you, as well for the lovely compliment, I appreciate it! Are you deselecting all of the L2 numbers that you don't want to change before changing the number using the "Start Numbering At" field in the Paragraph Panel? For example, if the trailing numbers at the end of the month (in other words the dates from the upcoming month) are correct and you don't need to change them, are you deselecting them before you change the starting number in the Paragraph panel? If not, that's going to change everything. At about 24:55 on the timeline I deselect the last day in January before I change the first three leading days to the 29-31. If I'm misunderstanding, and it's actually changing everything to the same number, can you please let me know the exact steps you're taking to change the number? As long as you use "Start Numbering At" in the Paragraph panel, it shouldn't give you the same number in each cell. Thank you again!

Thanks for the quick response, Tracey! Yep, I've deselected all the ones I don't want to change, but it's not only changing both the beginning and end dates, but it's changing the ones in other tables too! 😕 Everything that's L2 changes to the new starting number.

That's so strange! Did you make sure that the entire grid was Level 1 first by selecting all the cells and adding the L1 paragraph style to it before you selected individual dates to change to Level 2?

I did. The whole table as L1 to begin with then selecting the bits that sound be L2 (beginning and end of month separately) and changing the setting for those. It's very weird.

@@lindarobshaw hmmmm. Go to the Text Styles panel, click on the burger menu on the L2 style and choose Edit the style. Make sure that Level in the Bullets & Numbering is actually showing Level 2 and not one. If it's showing No Change or something like that, just set it to Level 2 and resave. See if that helps!

You are so very welcome! I'm so happy you found it helpful. Thank you so much for watching (here and on Skillshare!) and taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate the compliment on my teaching style!

I'm so happy you found it helpful Jenny, thank you! I will definitely be adding more Fresco tutorials in the near future. If there are particular topics you would like to learn more about, definitely let me know! Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment!

I'm so happy to hear that! Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment. Welcome to the world of Affinity!!

Thank you!

Thank you for the suggestion! I have added it to the list. Thanks for watching!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting Lily! I'm happy you found it helpful. Definitely more Affinity to Canva tutorials coming!

Thank you Amy! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I don't have one specifically about that but it wouldn't be that much different than creating a frame from a shape. If you're trying to create a single word frame (in that the entire word is a single frame) you would just need to add a raster fill to the word and export it as a PDF, just like the other frames. Hope this helps! (ps- the one thing it doesn't seem to want to do is create individual frames from a single word. In other words, if you convert your word to curves so it breaks all the letters out individually. Even if you add a separate bitmap to each shape, for some reason, Canva breaks the first letter out, and fuses everything else together. Not sure why)

Hi Joan! Thanks so much for watching! I was going to include info on using this in Designer if you didn't have Canva but didn't want to add too much to the tutorial. I have another one coming out that will go in to that. In the meantime, in Designer, whether it's for a shape, or your background, you can use the Gradient tool to add an image to a shape but you need to have a shape in place first. The default of the Gradient tool will always be Solid but if you use the drop down in the contextual menu and choose Bitmap, it will take you outside of Designer so that you can add an image. But yes, you do need to have a shape in place first in order to do that. There isn't a Fill Layer from Photo option like there is in Photo. I'm confused by the question about the thumbnail background. Do you mean the thumbnail in the layer studio? If so, you can lighten it by going to the burger menu at the top of the layer panel and under Thumbnail Background, choosing your setting. I don't think this is just in a Mac. If I'm misunderstanding any of your questions, please let me know! Thank you again for watching!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Yes, thumbnail background in thr layer section. Thank you, I didn't find this option! Now it's finally visible!!! Great 🥳

Wonderful! Glad you're all set!

Thanks so much! Many thanks for watching, and taking the time to comment :)

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So glad to hear that Yukon! Thanks so much for watching, and taking the time to comment!

You're very welcome! Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment. Have fun creating!

You're very welcome Jane! I'm so happy you found the tutorial helpful. Thank you so much for watching, and for taking the time to comment!

Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it! So happy to hear you had fun experimenting with symbols. They're a powerful tool! Thank you for sharing :)

Thanks so much! I appreciate it!

Hello there! It's probably hidden by the spam filter. I will go check it out now. Sorry about that!

Hi there! Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment. I'm so happy to hear it was helpful! I'm actually pulling together a tutorial for that. It would be difficult to explain in writing here but hopefully you will find that tutorial helpful! (coming out soon!)

You’re very welcome! Thank you!!

Hi George! There's usually more than one way to get to the result you're looking for so I think it's great that you tried a different approach! I think it all comes down to what you want your end result to look like, and whether you need to maintain the original shape. In my case, I wasn't worried about approaching it destructively (as the tutorial it was about the balanced dash pattern rather than the overall design :)) but if you want to maintain the ability to edit your shape your approach is great! Thank you for sharing!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thanks for the reply. It seems that often there are many different ways to achieve a desired result with AD, and as a beginner the challenge is learning WHY to do things one way or the other. Something I've been trying to do is copy designs I see as many ways as I can think of just to get familiar with every tool in the software.

You are very welcome Esther! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment.

Thank you so much Julie! I'm so happy you enjoyed it. Many thanks for taking it!

Thank you so much! So happy you are enjoying it!

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!

Hi Yuliya! Thank you very much for watching, and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it! On the pattern fills, they are always going to be bitmap fills, if you use the Gradient tool or Vector Flood Fill. If you have a specific canvas size you want to create, and you want it to be in vector format, I would recommend creating your canvas and creating your initial motif in a size that will easily divide in to that canvas, then build it from there. The overall process of tiling would be the same, you would just do the math ahead of time to determine what you would need your motif to be to make it easy to tile it. You could potentially duplicate your original artboard, resize it and retile what you already created but you would need to be careful that it's truly seamless once you're done. To me, without knowing what sorts of dimensions you're working with, starting fresh, with the necessary dimensions in mind, is a better option unless the resized version can easily accommodate your original motif. I hope that makes sense. Now, if you're working with Printify as your print on demand, they actually accept vector files and have a tiling option in their editor. They're the only ones I'm aware of who accept SVG files. I use them myself, and typically just load my original square format file. In that case, I don't need to create a separate file because it's going in as a vector. I just threw a lot of info at you so please let me know if you need clarification on anything!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate all the information you've provided. Thank you also for the additional info on Printify! I did not know they accept SVG files. That makes a lot of sense and would make my process so much easier. Thanks again for your expertise and for sharing your knowledge!

Hi there! Yes, there is a difference between a vector and a pixel, correct, however this brush, while not infinitely scalable, is a "vector" because it can be manipulated with nodes. However, as I believe I mention in the video, it's created with a pixel nozzle so you can't scale it infinitely. None of Designer's "vector" brushes (which they call vector brushes) are flat, infinitely scalable brushes, as the majority are created with pixel nozzles, however they are created with vector tools and manipulatable with nodes. I hope that helps explain why it's named this! 🙂 Thank you so much for the comment!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thank you for the clarification! I was looking to make a real vector brush like Adobe Illustrator, and I've watched many videos on KZbin to find a solution, but none of them were what I was looking for. Thanks for your nice video.

@@shirazigs you're very welcome! Unfortunately, as of right now, you can't make a vector brush like you can in Illustrator. Perhaps this will come down te road but, right now, the "vector" only comes from the use of nodes.

Hi there! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, and watch. I’m so glad you are finding this helpful :) Towards the end of the video, I show you how to pull everything in to Canva as a group of layers that will allow you to keep everything together and use the frame over and over. If, after you watch that part, you still have questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you again!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Yes, I saw that part, but I was wondering if you can actually attach the frame in affinity and bring it all in to Canva instead of using a Canva Frame.

Hi Amy! Sorry about that! (I shouldn't answer first thing in the morning :)) Yes, you can. You would need to create another layer that you add a raster to; that becomes the frame. What I would recommend is creating a vector shape layer (with the shapes, pen tool, whatever you want) then, with the Gradient tool, add a bitmap directly to it (you can do this with the Stock Studio, or pull something in externally). This can sit between layers, or above, just keep in mind, in Canva, if it can't find the drop zone for the frame, you might have to move whatever is above it out of the way to use it, then put it back. The one thing I will note, for some reason Canva doesn't like anything with perfect corners, the frame won't work. So, if you create something square in Serif, and intend for that to be the Canva frame, round up the corners, using the corner tool, slightly. It doesn't have to be anything noticeable, .5 pixels is fine. Hopefully, this makes sense. If it would help, I can also put a quick tutorial together showing something similar that would apply to these Polaroids as well.

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage I'm a visual learner, so if you could put together a quick tutorial on how to create the frame and attach it to the design that would be wonderful! I really appreciate how responsive you are in the comments section. I want to purchase affinity, but i'm not sure that it will meet my needs.

@@amygatto8106 will do! I'm wrapping up a new class but I'll put that out after, so it will be a few days. :)

Hi there! Thank you so much; I'm glad you found it helpful! Yes, you can. Create as many gift tags as you want on your canvas, export as a PDF from Designer and when you open them in Canva, they'll be on one sheet and treated as separate frames. From there, you can create a template link for them as one sheet with multiple frames. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any additional questions. Thanks for watching!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thankyou so much for the reply. I will be watching more of your videos!

Wonderful! Thank you, in advance, for watching!

Yes, they definitely can! Blend Options are my go to for sure :) Thank you for checking it out Sherri! I appreciate it, and thank you for taking the time to comment!

Thank you very much for watching, and taking the time to comment!

Thank you! And thank you for bringing up your font. It's a go to of mine so thank YOU for creating it. I usually post credit and the link to them in my description and I accidentally left it off. All fixed! Thanks so much for the reminder. :)

Glad you liked it, Gill! Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I'm so happy to hear you ended up with an illustration you like! :) I'm sorry, I should have mentioned there is no difference between the two, in that they both do the same thing. The reason they call it "Bake Appearance," when it comes to the Corner Tool (as well as the Contour tool) is because you're creating the curve and then just "baking in" the shape you created to set it. "Convert to Curves," doesn't necessarily have to come after you have made a change to the shape, but, ultimately, both create nodes :) Thank you again for watching!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thanks for explanation! It's a pleasure not only to watch your tutorials but also to make your designs - the best way of learning new features by inspiring practice!

@@joanl.2471 thank you so much! I am so appreciative of the lovely compliment!

Thank you for watching!