Looking to add black space at the bottom of a picture

[srichardprologue]

I need to be able to reformat a picture to include a black bar at the bottom to add a logo to for a 360 picture

 

attached images were created with a different program and i would like to recreate with affinity

 

[Martino333]

You picture bottom is looking black. What other thing would you like to add?

[srichardprologue]

I did not do this with affinity, I am looking to create this same change with affinity

[mac_heibu]

Choose menu „Document/Change Canvas Size“.

[h_d]

32 minutes ago, srichardprologue said:

I am looking to create this same change with affinity

Assuming you mean Affinity Photo and not Affinity Designer...

First, duplicate your background layer: select in in the Layers panel and type Cmd-J (Mac) or the Windows equivalent.

Then, with the original (locked) background layer selected, pull down the Layers menu and choose New Fill Layer. Change the colour of the fill layer to black.

Your Layers panel should now look like this:

Next, pull down the Document menu and choose Resize Canvas. You'll get this dialog:

Set the anchor point to top middle and click the padlock icon to prevent proportional resizing. Select your preferred units.

The dialog will now look like this (I chose millimetres):

 

In the right-hand dimensions box, type in the new depth for the canvas and then click Resize:

 

 

Your document will now look like this:

 

In the Layers panel, right-click on the black Fill layer and choose Rasterise, to convert it to a Pixel layer:

Now right-click on the top layer in the Layers panel and choose Merge Down.

 

 

This should give you a document like this, with the original unedited Background layer still locked at the bottom of the layers stack:

I would save this in native Affinity Photo format and then export to the final image format.

Hope this helps...

 

[JimmyJack]

6 hours ago, srichardprologue said:

I need to be able to reformat a picture to include a black bar at the bottom to add a logo to for a 360 picture

 

attached images were created with a different program and i would like to recreate with affinity

 

I might be interpreting your question a bit different....

Everyone's advice is correct but just the start of what you're asking:

1) Increase canvas (it can be empty space, you'll add the black etc in the coming steps)
2) Go to Layer > Live Projection > Equirectangular Projection. And face straight down: -180 pitch

3) draw your info. It will be in a circular area (mine is teal. Yours will be black). 

4) Corrected: Select all your info plus the image and (copy if you want to keep the original safe) hit Layer > Merge Visible Selected.
5) Layer > Live Projection > Remove Projection.

[srichardprologue]

4 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

I might be interpreting your question a bit different....

Everyone's advice is correct but just the start of what you're asking:

1) Increase canvas (it can be empty space, you'll add the black etc in the coming steps)
2) Go to Layer > Live Projection > Equirectangular Projection. And face straight down: -180 pitch

3) draw your info. It will be in a circular area (mine is teal. Yours will be black). 

4) Select all your info plus the image and (copy if you want to keep the original safe) hit Layer > Merge Visible
5) Layer > Live Projection > remove projection.

This is very useful for the future! Thankfully I already have a .png of the of the rectangular format of the watermark so I can just add it to the bottom

[srichardprologue]

@JimmyJack  I believe I have followed these intructions, but I am unable to "remove project" The option is greyed out

[JimmyJack]

1 hour ago, srichardprologue said:

@JimmyJack  I believe I have followed these intructions, but I am unable to "remove project" The option is greyed out

Sorry, step 4 should've said Merge Selected!
(will amend the original set of directions)