Steve L Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Hi, I am very new to infinity photo for iPad and am trying to increase canvas size to give a wide white border. Can anyone advise? Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 15, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 15, 2017 Hi Steve L, Welcome to Affinity Forums Tap the Document icon on top of the interface and select Resize, then on the context toolbar on bottom tap the first control (Resize) to open a popup (the list in the popup is scrollable) and select Canvas. Enter the values you want in the Width and Height fields (you can tap the controls to enter/write specific values), adjust the Anchor control to Middle Center (to resize the canvas from the center) and tap the checkmark on the right to complete the operation. Felipe Adan Lerma 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve L Posted August 15, 2017 Author Share Posted August 15, 2017 Thanks for the swift reply. Problem solved. Need to play around with the programme. It's a bit different to Photoshop, but brilliant on the iPad. Thanks, Steve Felipe Adan Lerma 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felipe Adan Lerma Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Steve, MEB, what would be my choices to fill the white etc? Thanks! Adan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve L Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hi Adan, I filled with white by clicking on the fill tool (the "bucket"in the tool bar on the left). Then selected white on the colour wheel on the right of the screen. Hope that helps. Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 16, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hi Felipe Adan Lerma, Welcome to Affinity Forums If you have not set the document's background to Transparent you should be seeing the white already when you enlarge the canvas. One way to fill the background with any colour you want (or gradient) is creating an ew Fill Layer and placing it on the bottom of the layers stack in the Layers Studio. To create a Fill Layer, tap the Layers Studio, then tap the plus icon on the top of the Layers Studio and select New Fill Layer. The layer will be created using the active colour. To change to another colour (make sure the Fill Layer is selected in the Layers Studio) open the Colour Studio and select the colour you want. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colboy Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 As a new user, I'm also having issues with this task. "MEB", I've followed exactly the instructions in the 'Help' Menu of AP for iPad with regards to increasing the Canvas Size. Each time, with the purpose of creating a Border, no transparent 'border' appears around my image. When I try to add a new Colour Fill layer, that still doesn't 'fix' it I've tried three times without success. AP is v1.6.12.86 I can't see any step that I've missed, as your steps here reflect the instructions in the 'Help' Menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 44 minutes ago, Colboy said: Each time, with the purpose of creating a Border, no transparent 'border' appears around my image. I see a transparent (checkerboard) border as soon as I tap ‘Apply’, but it didn’t work exactly as desired until I first made sure that the Anchor setting — accessed via the tiny white triangular pointer in the Context toolbar — was ‘Middle Centre’. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colboy Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 2 minutes ago, Alfred said: I see a transparent (checkerboard) border as soon as I tap ‘Apply’, but it didn’t work exactly as desired until I first made sure that the Anchor setting — accessed via the tiny white triangular pointer in the Context toolbar — was ‘Middle Centre’. As I said, I followed exactly the instructions, including the "Anchor Point". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 23 minutes ago, Colboy said: As I said, I followed exactly the instructions, including the "Anchor Point". I hadn’t actually read the instructions in the Help, but upon reading them now I can confirm that my steps were the same. I can’t persuade it to go wrong here. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 I do it this way using canvas unclip/canvas clip. 934C9EAF-675D-400C-BE16-4AE34EDE4A17.MP4 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apfel Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 @DM1Unfortunate that this doesn't seem to work with art boards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Appel, the posted question was how to increase canvas size in Affinity Photo. You are referring to Artboards. Are you using Photo or Designer? Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirkē Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Why is it impossible to choose the color of the resized canevas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 6 minutes ago, erickb said: Why is it impossible to choose the color of the resized canevas The canvas is always white unless it’s transparent. Resizing has nothing to do with it. As noted above, if you want a coloured background you can add a Fill layer at the bottom of the layer stack. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirkē Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 yes i understand but a feature with a colored canvas would be welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 1 minute ago, erickb said: yes i understand but a feature with a colored canvas would be welcome My apologies. You posted a question to the ‘Affinity on iPad Questions’ forum, so it wasn’t obvious that you were making a feature request. cirkē 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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