BeckyT Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 Pulling my hair out . I'm in the UK and trying to put a white canvas border around my image. I cropped my image to 12 x 8 inches , made sure in resize image (document) went to canvas resize and put in 16 x 12 inches which should be a 2" border all round. Nice and easy you would think but doent matter what I do the borders are odd. I've trying locking and unlocking dimensions , canvas clip and unclip, rastering and trimming my crop. Trying millimetres and inches, opening, closing and reopening and still not getting any closer. Please help! Also why can I export a jpeg but not open one ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 Hi @BeckyT and welcome to the forums, It sounds as though you are doing everything correctly though one thought... When you initially cropped your image to 12 x 8 inches was that a destructive or non-destructive crop? Once cropped, if you right-click on the layer in the layers panel and then select 'Rasterise & Trim...' prior to resizing your canvas you may then find adding the border by resizing the canvas to 16 x 12 inches gives you what you need. Let us know if that works for you... Old Bruce 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.3.1.2217 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1.2217 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1.2217 Affinity Designer Beta 2.4.0.2294 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.4.0.2294 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.4.0.2294 Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.6.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 2 hours ago, BeckyT said: Nice and easy you would think but doent matter what I do the borders are odd. Did you applied a centered border placement orientation? An easy way to get a white border around an image is this one ... - enhance the document canvas and fill it with white - place an image layer centered oriented on the white canvas NOTE that there are several different ways to add borders to images, the forum lists several threads and link reference about that theme ... Adding Borders Shaded Borders Drop shadow with border Frames and mats ... and so on ... Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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