Uneven borders

[ktarvis]

Hey all - 

Recent convert to Affinity after 15 years using photoshop. Having some issue figuring out how to get even borders around my image. In photoshop I would add a thinner black border and then a much larger white border using the canvas sizing tool. After reading a bit and figuring out how to add a border via layering and moving below background and using the canvas size, I can not get the top and sides to be even, they tend to be about 1/4" different when checking with the ruler. What in the world am I missing? Thank you!

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @ktarvis
If you can show us – upload a photo, doesn’t need to be hi-res – the sort of thing you usually create then we can give advice on how to replicate it in the Affinity applications. Otherwise we are just guessing what your requirements are as “borders” could mean different things to different people.

[ktarvis]

10 hours ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forums @ktarvis
If you can show us – upload a photo, doesn’t need to be hi-res – the sort of thing you usually create then we can give advice on how to replicate it in the Affinity applications. Otherwise we are just guessing what your requirements are as “borders” could mean different things to different people.

Thank you @GarryP for responding, it is much appreciated. 

This first one is where I am at in Affinity. It's probably hard to tell with the black border against the deep grey background but the border along the right side is larger than the bottom (same exists for left vs. top).

I ended up adding a border in Photoshop which is seem below, screenshot from the final on my Flickr. 

[v_kyr]

There are several different ways to add borders, via FX outline setting, via sized rectangles and arrangement/positionings, or via added fill layers etc. - Here's just a quick run, showing first one made with FX outline and then adding another via a rectangle layer positioned below then. The point I demonstrate here is, that if you possibly have several layers where you altered their sizes (aka smaller ones on top of bigger ones etc.) that you need to recenter/rearrange them on the below layer in order to get equally sized border sides.

In this case here since I used a freely positioned (and not optimal placed/drawn) white rectangle as the bottom background, I have to position and make the rect size first as the initial document/image size was. Then I make the image (with an previously already applied black outline border) slightly smaller and reposition that equally on the white rect used as a background here.

 

BTW, it's easier to use just a new white filled layer as an bottom background here instead of a rectangle, since you don't have to alter it's sizes then, as any new layer will have initially the doc size.