With clipping, you can crop in Inkscape by using regular shapes, objects such as text, or paths. It’s like using a cookie cutter to create a cookie from dough. Putting a border around an image in Inkscape definitely could be easier, but it’s not hard.The clip operation in Inkscape lets you place a vector shape, object or path on top of an image in order to “clip” or cut a portion of that image according to the shape used. As always, you can play with the stoke by opening the Fill and Stroke view ( Shift+Ctrl+F or whatever your favorite way is):Ĭonsider grouping the image and the rectangle together so you don’t accidentally get them separated!.I’ve set the stroke below by shift-clicking black on the bottom color rail: While the rectangle is still selected, set the stroke.Select only the rectangle and lower it below the image:.Align both the verticle and horizontal centers by selecting the Center on vertical axis and Center on horizontal axis icons.Select both objects and open the Align and Distribute view ( Shift+Ctrl+A or the.Here I’ve created a rectangle of the same width and height:

Here the width is 132.292 and the height is 79.375: Select the image and note the width and height.

Align the center of the rectangle to be the same as the center of the image.

Create a rectangle that is the same width and height as the image.Select the image and note the width and height.Surely Inkscape has some simple option to do this? Maybe you could just apply a stroke and voilà - a border around your image!Įxcept, no, Inkscape has no such feature. This seems to be a common request in Inkscape: you’ve imported an image, and you want to put a stroke or border around that image.

Inkscape drawing has box in the middle