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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.  

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Posted

Looks like you have your stroke aligned to the outside or to the center. Try aligning it to the inside.

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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...

  1. Lock the image layer
  2. Draw a rectangle the same size as the image and place it below the image layer
  3. Fill the rectangle with Black
  4. Add an outer stroke to the rectangle
  5. Set the width of the stroke you would like the border to be.

You could stop there, or...

  1. You can continue to add rectangles and larger strokes of different colours, see example and example file below.

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Stroke example.afphoto (4.5Mb) Saved with history so you can jog back and forth in the history panel. 

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Posted
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".

-- Walt
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Posted

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.

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Posted
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.

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