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Edge ​

An edge is drawn along the outline of a picture, a drawing, a text, a shape or a group. Select the item, open its Border menu and pick a card in the Edge section — Rim Light, Aura, Outline, Shadow, Paper or Purikura — and its Recipe holds every setting listed below. Every edge holds the same settings, so any of them can be dialled into any other. Hover a row of the Recipe, or hold a finger still on it, and it shows what that setting does — the sentence this page lists for it — with Learn more leading to its section here; the value does not change.

The Border menu ​

Select any layer and the bottom bar offers a Border menu. It takes the same layout as Effects: the strip runs two sections — Shape, the outline the picture is cut to, and Edge, the treatment drawn along that outline — and once the layer carries one, the container at the right end names it; carrying both, it lists both, and pressing a name picks which one you are working on. To move or resize the cut within the layer, press a card in the strip's Shape section: its grips appear on the picture as small blue rings for you to drag, and they go away when you leave the Border menu. Switching the shape keeps where you placed it but drops that shape's own settings, and switching the edge drops its tuned settings, so when either has been tuned the menu asks before switching. A drawn mark is its own outline, so its strip is Edge alone. An edge draws along the layer's real outline — the actual edge of the thing you put down, whatever shape it is — so nothing is guessed and nothing has to be worked out first.

  • Rim Light traces a bright edge along the outline, and Aura radiates colour outward from it against a darkened backdrop.
  • Outline inks the edge like a drawn line, and Shadow lifts the layer off what's beneath it on a soft drop shadow.
  • Paper rips the layer out onto a paper backdrop, and Purikura gives it the scalloped sticker-photo frame.

A setting you have changed from the border's own look shows a small undo mark at the right end of its row, and opening the stack, picking the shape or the edge, and pressing Remove under it takes that one off and leaves the rest of the layer exactly as it was.

Where you can use an edge ​

  • Image — Image · 3D · Text · Emoji · Shape · Freeform · Table · Mask · Groups
  • Video — Video · Image · 3D · Text · Emoji · Shape · Freeform · Table · Mask · Captions · Groups
  • Document — Image · 3D · Text · Emoji · Shape · Freeform · Table · Mask · Groups

What you can do with an edge you made ​

You can keep an edge you have tuned, share it, or put it on another item:

Star · Post · Copy

Strength ​

  • Amount — How much of the border shows over the item as it was.

Outside ​

  • Behind light — How bright everything outside the item stays: all of it keeps the picture, none turns it black.
  • Behind color — How much colour the picture outside the item keeps, drained toward grey or pushed stronger.
  • Behind tint — How far everything outside the item is washed toward the backdrop colour.
  • Wash color — The colour the outside of the item is washed toward.

Edge ​

  • Edge size — How far the band reaches from the item’s edge.
  • Edge offset — Where the band sits on the edge: outside the item, centred on its edge, or inside it.
  • Edge soft — How the band fades across its width, from a hard line to a soft glow.
  • Edge profile — The shape of the band’s fade, from the item’s edge to the band’s outer reach.
  • Roughness — How ragged the edge the band follows is, like torn paper.
  • Tear size — How big the rips along a torn edge are.
  • Scallop — How big the round bumps along the band’s outer edge are.
  • Edge level — How strongly the band is painted.
  • Inner color — The band’s colour where it touches the item.
  • Outer color — The band’s colour at its outer reach.
  • Color sweep — How far the band’s two colours run across the whole item instead of across the band.
  • Sweep turn — Which way the band’s colours run across the item.
  • Line 2 — How wide a second line beyond the band is.
  • Line 2 gap — How far the second line stands from the band.
  • Line 2 color — The second line’s colour.

Shadow ​

  • Shadow — How dark the shadow the item casts behind it is.
  • Shadow color — The colour of the item’s shadow.
  • Shadow gap — How far the shadow falls from the item.
  • Shadow soft — How soft the shadow’s edge is.
  • Shadow size — How far the shadow’s soft edge is pushed out before it fades.
  • Shadow tail — How far the item’s shape is drawn out along the light, as a long shadow.
  • Tail fade — How much the long shadow fades toward its end.
  • Inner shade — How dark the shadow the edge casts inside the item is.
  • Light from — Which side the light comes from; the shadow falls the other way.
  • Light height — How high the light stands above the item, lighting and shading its raised edge.
  • Tape — How much of the corner tape holding the item down shows.

Relief ​

  • Bevel — How strongly the item’s raised edge is lit and shaded.
  • Bevel size — How wide the raised edge is.
  • Bevel offset — Where the raised edge sits: inside the item, across its edge, or outside it.