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  1. I’ve listed, below the images, the steps of a technique, using Designer only, which you can use to create a border as you might see on old treasure maps etc. It’s a bit long-winded but not difficult to do, shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to complete, and it should work in both V1 and V2. At each stage, make sure that: Stroke Colour is Black; Fill is None; Scale With Object is OFF. For the base border: Draw a rectangle, you can make it any size you want, and keep it selected; Open the Swatches Panel or Colour Panel; Set the Fill to None; Open The Stroke Panel; Set: Stroke Width to 16px; Join to Mitre; Align to Centre; Open the Appearance Panel; Add a New Stroke and make sure it’s above the previous stroke added; Set: Stroke Width to 12px; Cap to Butt; Join to Mitre; Align to Centre; Style to Dash; Dash Pattern to 5,5,0,0,0,0; Blend Mode to Erase; Also: Make sure that the "Balanced" button is ON or the effect won't be as nice; Add a New Stroke and make sure it’s at the bottom of the ‘stroke stack’ (but above the fill); Set: Stroke Width to 16px; Join to Mitre; Align to Inside; Style to Solid; Blend Mode to Normal; Add a New Stroke and make sure it’s above the previous stroke added; Set: Stroke Width to 14px; Join to Mitre; Align to Inside; Style to Solid; Blend Mode to Erase; Add a New Stroke and make sure it’s at the bottom of the ‘stroke stack’ (but above the fill); Set: Stroke Width to 20px; Join to Mitre; Align to Outside; Style to Solid; Blend Mode to Normal; Add a New Stroke and make sure it’s above the previous stroke added; Set: Stroke Width to 19px; Join to Mitre; Align to Outside; Style to Solid; Blend Mode to Erase. For the optional ‘distressed’ effect: Duplicate the rectangle and select the duplicate layer; Use the “Revert Defaults” button on the Toolbar; Open the Swatches Panel or Colour Panel; Set the Fill to None; Make sure the new (duplicated) rectangle is above the other rectangle in the layer stack and still selected; Open The Stroke Panel; Set: Style to Textured Line Style; Open the Brushes Panel; Select the “Dry Media” category, scroll down and select the “Light Charcoal (for closed curves)” brush; Open The Stroke Panel; Set: Stroke Width to 90px; In the Layers Panel, set the Blend Mode of the duplicated Rectangle layer to Erase and set the Opacity to 60%; Group both rectangles. You can adjust the relative sizes of the strokes, brush pattern, etc. as necessary for different borders. You can also resize the border as you want while still keeping the same general design – if you have added the ‘distressed’ effect then make sure you move/resize the group as a whole. If you don't have the "Dry Media" category of brushes then you will need to choose a different brush from your collection. Important: Because you are using the Erase Blend Mode at various stages, the result will always* be rasterised upon export to any file format. * Unless you set “Rasterise: Nothing” as an export option whereupon the border will not be exported at all.
  2. It is entirely possible that my thinking has gone wrong, but I am unable (sometimes) to change the color of a previously colored rectangle. Notice below that have the rectangle behind the word Margaritaville selected and both the fill and stroke color are pink/red. However, the background of the rectangle remains blue. Has my thinking gone awry or is there a problem here? Thanks
  3. Hi everyone!! When you cover the canvas/document with say a photo or colour, there is a white border/edge around the document. Though it doesn't appear when you export the work, I find it intrusive and it bothers me so see it there. However, when you rotate the whole canvas/document say 90 degrees and make sure the canvas intersects the panels past the rulers the white border disappears (see attached images). Is there any way to make this disappearance permanent? Any way to disable this white border (as sheen on the second photo below)? Thanks.
  4. Layer effects: You can create borders with inner and outer shadow effects, but it would be nice to have a dedicated Layer effect for borders Suggestion: Add outer border effect to add one or more borders, with width, color, shadow, corner radius (with 90degree sharp) .... adjustments for each border
  5. I know there is an archived theme. Confirming that this problem persists in the newest version 1.8.3. Moreover we can observe these damn lines in Xnview picture viewer also, when viewing images, that were edited in Affinity Photo. So this is a real bug or not? I don't get it.
  6. Hello there, I attached the project file below, if I export it it has a slight white line at the bottom thats not supposed to be there. I have no clue on why this is. Thanks for your help. 1_flyer.afdesign
  7. Hi all, I need help making a proper square or any shape with perfect sharp corners/strokes. I can’t find out how to do so - am I missing something or is this a limitation of Photo’s engine? Please see the attached screenshot. Anything drawn has round corners, even the Pen tool and the Pixel brush! The only way I can get sharp corners is to import a vector object but even then it’s borders lose opacity and it doesn’t look right.
  8. Hi! Isnt it possible to give a placed PDF-file a border and/or a background in Publisher 1.9.2.1024? I have to do a workaround by droping a (white) rectangle behind the placed PDF. But this is very timeconsuming and not handy. Choosing a border and a backgroundcolor on the marked PDF-box is not working. Nothing is happen. Thanks for any hints. Martin
  9. When I create a clipped object, I can see very thin border around the clipping curve. This seems to be same as known "antialias gap" problem.
  10. Is there a macro available to apply a colored border before the final export? The way it will work: 1. Insert a Fill layer with maximum 2048 pixel in the longest direction while maintaining the original aspect ratio. 2. Make the image or pixel layer maximum 2000 pixel in the longest direction while maintaining the aspect ratio. 3. Apply border on the pixel layer via fx > outline. Thanks 😊
  11. I'd like to see a feature that allows a shape to share its border(s) with one (or more) shapes. This would allow a user to change the borders of adjacent shapes quickly, and without having to worry about making one border exactly lie on top of another border after a reshaping, or managing which shape's layer positioned relative to the layer of other shapes. Or maybe I'm missing this feature. I'm new at AD. Plz let me know if such feature exists. Thanks!
  12. Maybe I am blind and I totally missed it somehow, but I'm not able to set the width of the stroke (of a rectangle for example) to 1px. Or is this not (yet, hopefully) implemented? Thanks in advance guys! :)
  13. I'm hoping this is a quickie for a newbie question. I've exported my document to a pdf, and on some pages the boarders where I have pasted text in text frames are showing. What have a done wrong? It isn't every page, and I can't see what's different about these frames...
  14. How can i remove the gray border on all artboards Are the following options available? - enable / disable border - change color Thanks BR George
  15. Affinity Publisher newbie here. After working in Publisher with an image that had changed from "image" to "pixel", I found I was no longer able to draw a thin rule around it in the way it can be done with a text frame or image frame. There's always the Outline layer effect, but it does the job only partway. With Outline there don't seem to be controls for how the corners are drawn—they are always rounded. But is there a way to alter the corners using some other controls in the program?
  16. Hi everyone, is there a possibility to set the starting point of a grid to the border of the document? In my specific case I need to have a grid with 4mm spacing and a border of 10mm at all sites of the sheet. Can I move the gird in that direction that the grid lines are lined up with the left a top border? thank you
  17. In Photoshop, Ctrl-Alt-C brings up the Canvas Size dialog box. It works the same way in Photo. However, in PS, first there is a "Relative" check box that you can check (it remains checked) and second the program remembers from which point you want to change the Canvas size: I set it so that it will be changed from the center point, and it doesn't move. In Photo, it moves back to top left whenever you open the Canvas Size dialog box. Furthermore, in PS, there is a drop-down local menu to choose the color of the Canvas extension area: I set this to black and the software also remembers it. Therefore, when I call up this dialog box using Ctrl-Alt-C, I find all my settings again and only have to type in the size (thickness) of my black border, and hit Return. In Photo, first there is no "Relative" check box, there is no menu to select the color of the Canvas extension area, and then the program does not remember from which point I want to extend the size of the Canvas and moves back to its own default. I was wondering whether there is something I'm not doing right, or if it is also feasible in Photo but just not the same way... It is quite important for me as I usually do a thin black border around my photos... therefore, many thanks in advance for any tips!
  18. Hi guys, I do not manage to change any of the attributes of the surrounding frame of any Frame text. I would like to have a background color and some more padding towards the border. The only way I managed to do so, is to use a formatted square and align artistic text over it. Is there a way to apply formatting to the frame of a fame text? Thanks Lars
  19. I'm new to Affinity after working with PagePlus from 3 - 9 creating a local full colour magazine of 52 pages. I am struggling to find how to do things. As a volunteer I don't have time to sit through tutorials. I used to just sit with a cuppa and find the answer in the User Guide. I am finding that the language used is different. Using PagePlus was just so easy for me after all those years, but now I am really struggling. HELP!
  20. I want to take an image file and place it on a colored background. Prior to Affinity I had Adobe Photoshop but I can't seem to find a correlating tool to do this. Adobe merely ad a "resize canvas" option where one could anchor the image and choose a background while resizing. The resize canvas on Affinity is quite useful but not for my purpose. I am not sure which tutorial to watch.
  21. Hi There, Is there a way to remove a border or stroke of a shape in a selected location? For example, I want to remove the stroke on top or top border of a rectangle. If not removed change the color. Thanks!
  22. I'm having a strange export issue. The polygon and its border look perfect in Designer, but when I export to PNG, the corner gets messed up. I've tried changing the corner's angle, but since I can't duplicate the effect in Designer, I never know if I fixed it or not and need to re-export and look at the PNG to see if anything changed. Left: Designer, Right: Exported PNG
  23. Hello, I have noticed a problem in Affinity Designer where layers will suddenly have a 1-2 pixel border that shares a color with the next lower layer. It almost looks like aliasing in a raster layer, however I am seeing this problem with vector layers. The "border" is not a real border that would be added with the border menu (I have that set to no border), and it changes thickness when zooming. It is most apparent when zooming out. This occurred for me after some extensive use of the color picker tool. Details: Are you using the latest release version? Yes, according to the pinned forum post that tells how to check. 1.7.1.404. Can you reproduce it? This happens occasionally, seemingly only if I work on projects for a long time and change the colors frequently. When this happened I was using the Color Picker Tool for trial-and-error color testing, and when I finally found colors that I deemed satisfactory, this problem started. It almost looks like aliasing, but this is a vector project. It should be visible in the project I attached. The screenshots give an idea of what to look for. Does it happen for a new document? If not do you have a document you can share that shows the problem? This happens seemingly at random. I haven't noticed a pattern yet. If I copy and paste affected layers into a new document, sometimes the problem carries over, and sometimes it does not. The document setup seems to make no difference. I included an example project file that on my computer definitely has the issue, as well as screenshots. My usual non-print document settings (including for this one) are 72 DPI and RGB-8. If I start a completely unrelated project, the problem does not occur. What is your operating system and version? Windows 10 Version 17763.615 GPU is an AMD Radeon Vega FE. CPU is an AMD Ryzen 1700x. Monitor is an HP Pavilion 22cwa. 16GB RAM. What happened for you (and what you expected to happen) Small 1-2 pixel borders appeared around layers that reflect the colors of the layers underneath. These borders grow thicker as you zoom out, and thinner as you zoom in, but they are always there. Normally, this would not happen, and shapes that have the same color will look like they are one piece, and shapes that are different colors will not have traces of each other. I am certain that for the black shape in the example project, the shapes meet exactly. I made them simply by copying layers and deleting unrelated nodes. For the tan layers in the example project, the colors are identical. They should look as if they are one piece. Provide a recipe for creating the problem (step-by-step what you did). I was just using the color picker tool somewhat frequently to try out different color combinations on different layers. After a while this problem appeared and could not be reverted. None of the layers are supposed to have borders of any kind. The border option is set to none. Any unusual hardware (like tablets or external monitors or drives that may affect things) or relevant other applications like font managers or display managers. No, but I listed my GPU and CPU above just in case. This is a desktop PC (not a laptop). Did this same thing used to work and if so have you changed anything recently? I have experienced this issue before seemingly at random on earlier releases of Windows 10. I've been using Affinity Designer since January. Nothing about my PC has changed, software or hardware, for at least a few weeks. I have seen threads about a similar issue in Affinity Photo (not Designer), however it seems as though the problem could not be reproduced. Hopefully my attachments will help. Older threads of a very similar-looking issue in Affinity Photo: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/83340-all-images-get-a-visible-border-when-at-certain-zoom-levels/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/87790-all-images-get-a-transparent-border/ ProblemExample.afdesign
  24. An image is worth 1000 words, the first image is the cut out I made and second image is the cut out placed in another image... but with a border I do not want. If any more context is needed, please let me know! Any help? Thanks catonjam.afphoto
  25. All i want do is add a border to an image for a youtube video but everytime i try it makes my image the background image and the rectangle i use for my image remains in the foreground blocking what I would like to be seen. I dont understand what im doing wrong
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