Affinity Photo v1 Inpainting Flood Fill of Document Border

[PaulMc]

I am trying to use Affinity Photo to create paperback book cover. I created document size to allow for bleed requirements. I created front cover, spine and back cover images, all at 8.5 x 5.5 inches which is actual size of the book. I pasted them into the document. I now have a white border where the bleed area is and I was hoping to use something like inpainting to fill the white border with adjacent image content, but I am not having any luck. I probably should have made all the images larger to fill the bleed area but I was concerned about making sure everything, especially text, was centred in the final printed cover. Can anyone advise on any workaround to fill the white bleed border please? Paul

[Komatös]

Hi @PaulMc and welccome to the forum.

If possible, you should enlarge the images so that they are flush with the edge of the bleed. That would be the normal procedure. Otherwise, if the editing process allows it, create a new fill layer (Layers -> New Fill Layer), set the fill color to a value that matches the main color of the image and move the fill layer under the image.  

[carl123]

May need more information but try...

Document > Flatten

Select the white border using Flood Select Tool

Edit > Inpaint

 

[David in Яuislip]

Flying a bit blind without a screenshot but you can try
Flood select the white border, tolerance 1%, contiguous ticked
Select\Grow 10px
Edit\Inpaint

[PaulMc]

Many thanks for all your help. David's suggestion worked the best with the additional settings. Without them the fill tool sampled too much of the image and included items of text in the fill. Thanks to everyone. Paul