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Add Padding to Image

Add whitespace around an image without cropping anything.

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Quick Tool Overview

Add Padding to Image adds space around a picture without cropping or scaling any part of it. Pad evenly or set each side separately, in pixels or percent, and fill the new area with transparency, a flat colour, or a blurred enlarged copy of the image — the treatment that fits a portrait photo into a landscape frame without black bars.

What it does
Adds empty space around an image
You give it
An image and the padding you want
You get back
A larger canvas with the original untouched inside it
Best for
Logos, print bleed and reshaping for a feed
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About the Add Padding to Image

A logo that touches the edge of its file looks cramped everywhere it is placed, and a print job without bleed comes back trimmed into the artwork. Both are padding problems, and both are fixed by growing the canvas rather than shrinking the picture.

Padding can be set evenly on all four sides or given a different value per side, in pixels or as a percentage. The new space can be transparent, a flat colour, or filled with a blurred, enlarged copy of the image itself — the treatment that makes a portrait photograph sit inside a landscape frame without black bars. Nothing is scaled or cropped: every original pixel survives in place.

Key features of the Add Padding to Image

Per-side control

One value for all four sides, or unlock and set top, right, bottom and left independently.

Blurred fill

Fills the padding with an enlarged, blurred copy of the picture so the result reads as depth rather than as empty margin.

Transparent by default

Save as PNG and the padding stays transparent, so the image sits on any background you later place it on.

Nothing is scaled

Every original pixel stays exactly where it was and at its original size — only the canvas changes.

Percentage mode

Express padding as a share of the image so the same setting works across files of different sizes.

How to use the Add Padding to Image

  1. 1

    Add the image

    Drop in the file that needs breathing room around it.

  2. 2

    Set the padding

    Use one value for all sides, or unlock and set top, right, bottom and left separately.

  3. 3

    Choose the fill

    Transparent, a solid colour, or a blurred copy of the picture behind it.

  4. 4

    Download

    Save as PNG for transparent padding, or JPEG when the fill is solid.

Frequently asked questions

Mechanically nothing — both grow the canvas around the image. Padding is the word used when the point is space, and border when the point is a visible line, so the two tools differ in the controls they put first.

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