Using Affinity Publisher 2.1.1: Creating a white frame for a picture ...

[elbchaussee]

Every time I try to create a white frame (9,4 px = 0,08 mm) using the layer menu / shine inward I manage to get the white "line" only on the two vertical sides of the picture (s. attached photo).

What do I have to do to get the right result (all four sides)?

Thanks in advance.

[GarryP]

Unless I have misunderstood the requirements, one easy way to do this is to select the Picture Frame layer and add a White Stroke to it via the Colour Panel (or Swatch Panel) and the Stroke Panel, maybe with “Align Stroke to Inside” – see attached image.

[elbchaussee]

Thanks, Gary, for your quick answer. I'll try that!

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.
If it doesn’t do what you want it to do, or you want to do something different, just say so.

[elbchaussee]

Eh, Gary, I got a problem here (stupid beginner's mistake, probably): I don't get your "colour" window containing only white. I have always "RGB" or else and I don't find something similar to black and white (s. attached screenshot). I'm sorry.

Any ideas?

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, elbchaussee said:

I don't get your "colour" window containing only white.

The 2 color "wells" at the top left of the panel shows what colors are selected, with the front, filled in one for the fill color & the donut-shaped one behind it for the stroke color. As you can see, the stroke one is set to white. In Garry's screenshot, he has selected a Tone (indicated by the "T' to the left of the slider) which is why it looks different.

You don't need a tone, so just add the stroke & you should get what you want.

[elbchaussee]

It seems there are two kind of frames. Frame-1 (left on the screenshot) is sizebable; Frame-2 has several x on it and is not sizebable.

The left frame I can fill with a photo (Frame-3) and apply a stroke which is not possible with the right frame (Frame-4).

Even if I try to apply a stroke to the whole, much smaller photo within the frame (Frame-5) there is no result ...

Any ideas? And thanks a lot, you guys, for helping a rookie out.

[GarryP]

The Picture Frame with the ‘X-handles’ is probably either locked or on a master page, but it is the same thing as the other Picture Frame, it just can’t be edited at the moment – try unlocking the frame or editing the master page.

Note: When giving us screenshots it is usually much more useful to give us full-screen screenshots as then we can see everything that you can see, which often gives us clues to what is wrong or just plain tells us what the problem is.

[elbchaussee]

Thanks again, GarryP. And of course I'll send full-screen screenshots now.

As you can see I cannot unlock the right frame nor can I make a frame with my required conditions: frame right, left, above, blow with a width of 2 mm in white (because designing a photo brochure I am putting several photos ON one large photo in the background).

Using the solution above the white stroke is only put to the photo (sometimes/often larger than the frame itself).

Why it was possible for the left side's photo (portrait, same picture) to generate the right white frame (the photo itself is landscape) I don't know ...

Sorry, if I keep on asking.

[anto]

27 minutes ago, elbchaussee said:

I cannot unlock the right frame

Your picture frames are on master page, that's why you have to unlock master page to edit picture frame, using Edit Detached

 

[GarryP]

Unfortunately we can’t see your Layers Panel which would tell us something about how your pages are constructed.
Sorry, I should have also asked for that; can you make another please?
Can you also make sure that the ‘problem layer’ is selected in the Layers Panel and that we can see the child layers of the ‘problem layer’ and whether the ‘problem layer’ is itself a child layer of another layer?

It looks like the Picture Frame you have selected in your screenshot is on a master page which may be why you cannot add a stroke to it. (I just tried it and I couldn’t do it but I’m not using the same document as you.)

However, I don’t know how you could add a stroke to the Picture Frame on the left of the spread if that Picture Frame is also on the master page, which it seems to be.

If you want the stroke to be on that Picture Frame for every instance the master page is used then you can add the stroke to the Picture Frame on the master page, but this specific case has got me wondering.

Maybe the new screenshot will help.