silverlaker Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 I've read a number of tutorials and posts on adding borders in Affinity. Not exactly easy nor intuitive. Nonetheless I'm finally at a point where I am frustrated to find the stroke has rounded corners. I want a standard hard edge. Any idea why I'm seeing this? Thanks in advance for your advice. Quote
walt.farrell Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 Looks like you have your stroke aligned to the outside or to the center. Try aligning it to the inside. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
GarryP Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 ...or select a different Join (in the same dialog/popup). Quote
firstdefence Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 That actually looks like the Outline FX and if it is set to Outside it will always have curved corners, It also looks like you have a 3D FX or a Bevel/Emboss FX added. Set the Outline FX to Inside to see sharp corners, it will, however, obscure some of the image and some of the emboss effect. An alternative would be... Lock the image layer Draw a rectangle the same size as the image and place it below the image layer Fill the rectangle with Black Add an outer stroke to the rectangle Set the width of the stroke you would like the border to be. You could stop there, or... You can continue to add rectangles and larger strokes of different colours, see example and example file below. Stroke example.afphoto (4.5Mb) Saved with history so you can jog back and forth in the history panel. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
walt.farrell Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 2 hours ago, GarryP said: ...or select a different Join (in the same dialog/popup). I did not find that the join had much effect in this case. The corners remained rounded regardless of join, unless the stroke was adjusted to "inside". Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
silverlaker Posted January 1, 2020 Author Posted January 1, 2020 Thanks to everyone for helping me out. Happy New Year. Quote
GarryP Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 Walt: It probably depends very much on what “this case” is and how it was prepared but a Mitre join works well for me (see attached GIF). I’m not sure why it doesn’t seem to work for you. silverlaker: You’re welcome. Happy New Year to you too. walt.farrell 1 Quote
Alfred Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 3 minutes ago, GarryP said: I’m not sure why it doesn’t seem to work for you. It’s probably because the mitre limit is too low in Walt’s example. walt.farrell 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GarryP Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 Yeah, that’s probably it (didn’t notice it was 1.5). It does look a bit rounded when a small stroke width is used. Quote
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