Feature Request - Export withWhite Border

The goal is to add a white border to photos. It's useful when I'm making prints for certain frame sizes and want negative space and space to sign a photo, also, in order to post to Instagram and have vertical and horizontal images in the same carousel.

My preference would be to have a crop setting that works in conjunction with 'Crop Outside Image'. You would be able to customize the color of the border. You could use any aspect ratio or freehand, draw the crop larger than the size of the image and have the option to automatically snap the image to the center or align it freehand.

Here's my current workaround:

Output Images with White Borders via Capture One & Photoshop

Record an Action in Photoshop

Open any photo in photoshop. Make sure it’s located in an output folder from Capture One

Begin recording a new action

Cmmd+option+c to change canvas size

Increase by 200% on all sides with white

Save image

Close image

End recording

Save action. mine’s called “+200% canvas size white border”

Create a Photoshop Droplet

Open photoshop

File -> Automate -> Create Droplet

Select the action you just recorded

Save it somewhere easy like the Photos folder on macOS

Set up a processing recipe in Capture One and have it open the droplet upon completion

JPEG, max out all the sliders

Save to subfolder ‘With White Border, Uncropped’ or ‘I’m giving in to capitalism. please, please like my posts’ or whatever

Select “Open With”, select “Other…”, find the droplet you just made and select that.

Run the recipe.

At this point Capture One will take your original photo, make a jpeg, send it to the droplet, the droplet will run the action and you’ll end up with a gigantic jpeg.

Process out a square crop from Capture One

Go back to Capture One

Make a second process recipe, this time JPEG 1080 x 1080 pixels

In the Capture One library navigate to the folder with the huge jpeg borders

Crop it with the Square restriction on the crop tool

-The biggest drawback with this whole setup at the moment is that C1 doesn’t snap to a grid so you have to crop it freehand. I set up the grid to display 13x13 lines and try to eyeball it

Apply the crop to all of the photos. It should fit both vertical and horizontal orientations.

process these out.

Post that it.

Final Step

Notes

Downsides

You’re doing this freehand so your crops may vary.

There is a bit of back and forth but once it’s up and running it’s the most efficient method I’ve tried.