dmstraker Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 When enlarging the canvas it would be nice to be able to specify the colour fill for area that appears around the image. One reason is that I use this to add colour borders to images and it would be handy if I could say 'make the border white' or grey, or black, etc. Thanks! Quote Dave Straker Cameras: Sony A7R2, RX100V Computers: Win10: Chillblast i9 Custom + Philips 40in 4K & Benq 23in; Surface Pro 4 i5; iPad Pro 11" Favourite word: Aha. For me and for others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 6, 2017 Staff Share Posted March 6, 2017 Hi dmstracker, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Currently there's no way to select a colur for the background as you discovered but you can use a rectangle shape with the fill colour you want to fill the background if you are using Affinity Designer or a Fill layer if you are using Affinity Photo (menu Layer ▸ New Fill Layer). dmstraker 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorW Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 For goodness sake, Affinity staff. Just bite the bullet and give us a quick way of selecting whatever we like and stroking it as in PS. I do a lot of 1400px x 1050px images for club projection and have set up a macro for a two-tone 5px black'n'white border. But what a faff! Please! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve58 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 This is a feature that was available in PhotoPlus so why the backward step in AP, like TrevorW I use it for club images, In my case it is prints where I want a 50px white border, 3px coloured pin-line and another 50px white border. In PP I could do that very quickly by increasing the canvas size three times by 100px, 6px and 100px respectively with the colour set to white for the first and last resizes and to a colour selected from the image for the second resize, which takes about a minute to do. I can't find a simple way to do this in AP so have to resort to reopening the image in PP. Come on Affinity, this should be simple and easy to accommodate, please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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