Easy Way to Put Photos Inside Text (Affinity Photo)

[@Maryschannel93308]

Excellent tutorial Robin! Straight forward and simple to follow. Thank you😁

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you and you are welcome.

[@gmw4558]

Thank you, Robin! You are a very good teacher. My version of Affinity Photo was different, when it came to the layer effects. This caused a little difficulty for me to interpret the steps into my version. But I clicked around until I found what seemed to work. Other than that, your instruction allowed me to produce the image inside the text, as intended. Great job, Robin! Thank you again!

[@RobinWhalley]

I;m glad you liked it. THere may have been a small change to the way this works since I recorded the video but the principle should be the same. I'm glad you got it to work for you.

[@mtntopviking]

Very cool! Thank you!

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad you liked it! Thanks.

[@hilldog3450]

You sir, know how to explain things clearly and thoroughly, and at a good pace. Very well done. thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

You're very welcome! Thank you.

[@phoebeaxelle5235]

Very practice!!✨

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you

[@ianyorke2617]

Another excellent tutorial that will be bookmarked.

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad you think so! Thank you.

[@joelcalvary1087]

Hi Robin, Thank you! for sharing your video tutorials I really apreciated.

[@RobinWhalley]

You are very welcome. Thank you.

[@billfried626]

Not one wasted word or gesture. Thanks!

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. That's what I aim for. Time is valuable so I don't like to waste other peoples.

[@orlamdc]

Great tutorial....just wondering if this is supposed to work the same way on version 2..🤔 I tried it out on AP Version 2....I can get the blue line to show below the text layer when I drag the image layer down then while still holding the mouse button I drag it over to the right but no matter how far over I drag it the blue line doesn't become indented. Any ideas why?

[@RobinWhalley]

Affinity Photo 2 changed the technique a little. You now need to drag the image over the Text layer in the Layers Studio Panel but to the right of the layer thumbnail. If you drop it on the thumbnail it work work, but move it to the right and you will see the image appear inside the text.

[@orlamdc]

@@RobinWhalley yes thank you. That works. 👍 Just started learning Affinity Photo over the past few days. Your tutorials are very helpful. Thanks for sharing. ☘

[@RobinWhalley]

@@orlamdc You're welcome

[@paulmarbach6447]

Really helpful, thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you.

[@Mike-ff7ib]

Very good. I was wondering how to do this.

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad I could help.

[@Mike-ff7ib]

@@RobinWhalley I have been trying to create a layer from a selection but when I press Ctrl+J I get an empty layer instead. The selection image is not copied. I read online you need to rasterize the image before this will work. I have not tried this yet but I would love your input on this.

[@RobinWhalley]

@@Mike-ff7ib When copying a selection, you must also have a pixel layer selected in the Layers Studio Panel. If you don't do this, when you come to paste it, it looks like nothing happens. I suspect that's your problem and why you have read that you need to rasterise the layer. Rasterizing just converts a layer to pixel layer so be sure you want to do that before converting. You may want to create a consolidated layer first and then make a selection of that to copy. I hope that makes sense.

[@Mike-ff7ib]

@@RobinWhalley Thanks for the prompt reply. It makes sense. Its been my problem the whole time. I kept trying to do destructive tasks on an image. I now know I need to create a copy and have a pixle layer.

[@mikearst2940]

Thanks. It's a simpler procedure than I'd thought. I recommend loading the object into Affinity Publisher temporarily to kern the characters precisely (there are handy keyboard shortcuts for it)-this is a way to avoid the "running into one another" problem in the one case, along with problems with too much space between characters. (I don't know enough about Affinity Photo yet to know if its text features including manual kerning/tracking commands.) The default spacing of the letters for Impact do often call for manual kerning.

[@RobinWhalley]

Thanks for adding your approach MIke and yes, spot on with the kerning problem. I hadn't wanted to get into that subject and was trying to keep the video simple. Yes you can do manual kerning in Affinity and it shares some of its features with Affinity Designer and Publisher. The keyboard shortcut is Option + Cmd + left and right arrow keys (Mac) or Ctrl + Alt + left and right arrow keys (Windows). You can apply this to individual letter spaces or blocks of text. They call it spacing rather than Kerning.

[@mikearst2940]

@@RobinWhalley Thanks. Good to know that it can all be done within Affinity Photo. Just one less mouth to feed.:)

[@alessandrociampi1811]

I tried but it does not work. when I put down the images and right I see the word over all the image

[@RobinWhalley]

Affinity Photo 2 changed the technique. You need to drag the image over the Text layer in the Layers Studio Panel but to the right of the layer thumbnail. If you drop it on the thumbnail it doesn't work, but move it to the right and you will see the image appear inside the text

[@alessandrociampi1811]

@@RobinWhalley thanks now is ok

[@Mike-ff7ib]

@@alessandrociampi1811 took me some time dragging it all over the place but I finally got it to work. For me it seemed to magically pop inside the text just by dragging the image over the text layer. I'm using version 2.2

[@zoeeerlandsen1088]

Hmm nothing happens when I move the picture layer to the right

[@RobinWhalley]

I suspect you are using Affinity Photo 2 because the technique has changed a little. You now need to drag the image over the Text layer in the Layers Studio Panel but to the right of the layer thumbnail. If you drop it on the thumbnail it work work, but move it to the right and you will see the image appear inside the text.

[@RyansUndies]

this was excellent. Thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.