I am trying to make a squared border around my image and cannot figure out how at all. I have read countless posts and tutorials across the net but I can’t get it so I need someone to explain what I am doing wrong.
Attempt 1:
First I select my image using fuzzy select.
Then I select ‘edit > border’.
I set border width and set “hard” for border style.
This creates a rounded border.
Attempt 2:
I goto ‘edit > stroke <path | selection>’ (both produce same result)
I set cap style to ‘square’.
I set joint style to ‘miter’ (actually its already selected).
I have tried every miter limit 0 through 100.
I set “line”.
I click stroke.
This creates a rounded stroke border.
The image I am attempting this with has perfect 90 degree angles. They are not rounded, so I need the border to also be 90 degree squared angles.
What am I missing?
I know i could attempt to manually create the border but there are a TON of edges on the image and ensuring its all the exact same width is both annoying and very time consuming. The older versions it was a simple matter of clicking border and it created a squared border. Seems crazy to think gimp moved backwards and now it takes 20 times longer to create a square border.
I feel like I need to make a sandbox for the old version of gimp just so I can make borders in seconds instead of hours.
So what am I doing wrong and how do I properly do this?
