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Affinity Photo 1.8.5 in running on a Dell Desktop.

I don't have the Picture Frame Rectangle, the Picture Frame Ellipse Tool, or the Picture Placement tool. Neither are any of these available to me from View > Customize Tools. 

I attach a screenshot of my tool options.


 

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In Photo there is neither a Picture Frame tool nor a Place Image tool but there is the File > Place... command. I guess the developers made the decision that we don't need a dedicated tool for this function in Photo. You can use the Shapes tools to put in a shape and use that as a mask for any placed image.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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28 minutes ago, Pranada said:

I'm trying to create a border around the photo, which all the tutorials -- by Affinity and others -- show is done using the Picture Frame Rectangle tool. 

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Please make sure you are looking at tutorials for Photo, not Publisher. They have different purposes, capabilities, and tools.

Can you provide a pointer to one of the tutorials that suggests Photo has a Picture Frame tool?

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2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Please make sure you are looking at tutorials for Photo, not Publisher. They have different purposes, capabilities, and tools.

Walt, You're correct. Though I searched for Photo, I was looking at Publisher videos. But my quandary begs the question, Why doesn't Photo have these useful tools? I'll continue my search for solving my specific query. Thank you.

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4 hours ago, Pranada said:

I'm trying to create a border around the photo, which all the tutorials -- by Affinity and others -- show is done using the Picture Frame Rectangle tool. 

If you use File > Place then you can put a border around the placed image.

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Otherwise it is down to putting a Fill Layer behind the image/pixel and resizing the picture to revel the background. Or putting a rectangle over the image and having the fill set to transparent with a stroke set to the inside, this would be easier in my opinion.

 

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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5 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Or putting a rectangle over the image and having the fill set to transparent with a stroke set to the inside, this would be easier in my opinion.

Or just place a rectangle below the photo, centered as desired:

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41 minutes ago, Pranada said:

Yes, that's the easiest, but I'm trying to put a frame around a picture that is sitting within a page. It's not just a picture by itself. If it was it would be so much easier! 

It's the same principle, though. Create a rectangle below the image, of the size you need, that fits within the other content on the page.

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21 hours ago, Pranada said:

Why doesn't Photo have these useful tools?

You mean Picture Frame Tools?
Because they are tools for organizing images/photos on a page/pages, which is a job for APublisher, while APhoto is an application for editing individual images photos.

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Hello @Pranada,

take a look at the video from Olivio Sarikas.
Maybe that will help you.

 

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27 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

You mean Picture Frame Tools?
Because they are tools for organizing images/photos on a page/pages, which is a job for APublisher, while APhoto is an application for editing individual images photos.

Yes, that's clear now. Thanks.

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