Border around image

Suzy Hearn

• May 04, 2021 15:43

How do I put a black or white border around my photo before export please?

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  Claude CAUWE

  • May 04, 2021 16:27

  You don't :-)

  I might be wrong, but I don't think this is possible with Capture One

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  billtils

  • May 04, 2021 19:50

  You can't.  

  You can do it with Affinity Photo or Photoshop - the specific steps vary but the general idea is to create a black or white canvas a few px wider than your image then blend the two.

  Another and very easy way (if you have it or are prepared to pay DxO to get it) is to do it in NIK - I'm not at my editing computer just now so can't give you exact instructions but it is a NIK feature.

   

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  Marco Hyman

  • May 04, 2021 21:10

  You can do it as part of the export process but it requires other software.   One method is to use some of the tools that are part of the free ImageMagick package.  "mogrify" can do the job.  To get the proper parameters passed to "mogrify" you'll need to create an intermediate app.  Automator can do this.

  Install imagemagick.  I use brew to install such things.  See https://brew.sh if you don't know about brew.

  Launch Automator.   Select the Create an app option.  Pick "Utilities" from the Actions library and drag "Run Shell Script" into the workflow window.  Set the shell to "/bin/sh" and set "Pass input" to "as arguments".  Modify the script to look like this:

  # Border size in pixels
  BORDER=50
  
  for f in "$@"
  do
      /usr/local/bin/mogrify -bordercolor white -border $BORDER "$f"
  done

  Save the app somewhere.  Create your process recipe and set  "Open with" to the app you just saved.  I used white for the border color and 50 as the number of pixels of border on each side.   Adjust as you like.

   

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  Michael

  • May 31, 2021 12:28
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  As @billtils indicated peeps usually do this by going into apps like PS to alter the canvas size a few mm & selecting white or black depending on the image.
  
  

  And similar your best bet is to do exactly the same only instead of PS you will likely use Affinity Photo which is probably the most popular PS replacement and only costs a few bucks by comparison, especially when discounted every so often.

  You right click the image in C1 and select 'Edit with' > 'Affinity Photo', creating a variant of the image (Tiff usually), and once it's opened you change the canvas size by going into the 'Document' menu and selecting 'Resize Canvas ...';  add you border (if transparent simply use the flood fill tool on the border with you chosen colour) and save and close Affinity Photo which will transfer the image back to C1 with the newly added border.

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  billtils

  • May 31, 2021 13:03

  👍

   

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  OMagic

  • February 15, 2022 18:30

  Thanks Marco for your tip about mogrify. 
  My tip for macOS Monterey ist that the path ist not anymore /usr/local/bin/mogrify but /opt/homebrew/bin/mogrify.

  The only issue I have: the exported JPEGs are being reduced in filesize by the Automator app and I don‘t know why.

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