Image Styling

You can change various properties of an image to change its appearance from the Image tab.

Border Colours

Click the Line Colour or Background Colour buttons to choose an alternative line colour from a basic colour palette. If you click the More Colours option you can select a custom colour. Read more about the Colour Palette.

Border Line Thickness

To change the line thickness of the border, type in the box, click the up and down arrows or click in the box and press the up and down keys on your keyboard. Line thickness is set in mm.

Corner Radius

To change the corner radius of a image, type in the box, click the up and down arrows or click in the box and press the up and down keys on your keyboard. Corner radius is set in mm. A corner radius of 0mm will mean that the image has square corners.

You can also set the corner radius as a Percentage. You can use this to create a round image by setting the corner radius to 100%.

To set the corner radius as a percentage, click the More Options button in the Frame section of the Image tab to open the Frame Style dialog. Tick Use Percentage Corner Radius.

Drop Shadow and Effects

You can add a drop shadow and various other effects to an Image.

To add a drop shadow, click the Drop Shadow button. To change the appearance of the drop shadow or access different effects, click the small triangle next to the Drop Shadow button.

Configuring Frame effects

In the frame effects dialog you can set:

  • Drop Shadow
  • Curved Glow
  • Solid Border

For each of these you can set the effect:

  • Colour
  • Colour transparency
  • Thickness



Margins

You can change the margins for an image. This is particuly useful if you have a visible border and would like the image to have some extra space.

Select the Margins button on the Image tab to bring up the margins dialog.