Timeline for How to place borde around transparent PNG in Gravit.io?
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| Mar 8, 2022 at 21:48 | vote | accept | Clay Nichols | ||
| Mar 7, 2022 at 3:23 | comment | added | Scott | Illustrator's the same. I think it's because the basic under-the-hood process for drop shadows is to copy, rasterize, greyscale, blur, place below original object -- so the transparency is simply built into the rasterization step for shadows and glows. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 | answer | added | Clay Nichols | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 | comment | added | Clay Nichols | Thanks, makes sense. What's confusing is that Gravit.io will see the edges of non-transparent pixels as the boundary for some things like "drop shadow" but not for others (like Border) | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 19:13 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @Scott - I agree. If it's a vector image editor, then it's likely not possible, at least not directly/automatically. It could be done very easily in a raster image editor such as Photoshop or GIMP though - then just export as PNG again. | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | Scott | Never used Gravit.. but it appears to be a vector application. Typically vector apps see PNG files as one object and although the PNG may contain transparent pixels, it's the boundaries of the actual image (the outer rectangle) the vector app detects, and not the non-transparent pixels within those boundaries. At least this is true for Illustrator (and I believe Inkscape as well.) | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 17:57 | history | asked | Clay Nichols | CC BY-SA 4.0 |