adding outline to cropped photo

[EmersonS]

I'm experiencing a problem when I attempt to add an outline to a cropped photo in Affinity photo. The same problem doesn't happen when I add an outline to the photo before cropping.

I click on the layer, then fx, then outline, alignment inside, but when I adjust the radius, nothing appears until about 75px, and then it only comes from the top of the document.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this some kind of bug? Thanks for your help!

[HVDB Photography]

Cropping is non destructive, you'll need to rasterise (Layer > Rasterise)  the image first

[EmersonS]

Hi, thanks for your response. Okay, I tried that, but have the same result

[HVDB Photography]

If you don't mind, could you attach the .afphoto file ?

[EmersonS]

Sure thing, thank you.

affinity help.afphoto

[HVDB Photography]

The problem is that the canvas  size is  100px X 100px  !!!

 

[EmersonS]

Hi, yes, it's a thumbnail for an image for my website. I've tried it cropped larger too, thinking I could resize after adding the outline but I have the same result. Is there a reason you couldn't add an outline to a small image?

[HVDB Photography]

In this case you must first flatten the image  =  Document > Flatten

 

[EmersonS]

That did it!! Thanks so much

[HVDB Photography]