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What is padding?
What is padding?

Padding is an internal margin around your image. Learn how it works in this article.

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Written by Craig Wright
Updated over a week ago

Padding is the amount of space between the object(s) in your image and the outer edge of your image.

a canvas with a box in the middle. Callout arrows point from the edges of the box to the internal edges of the canvas.

For example, here is an image with 5% padding.

A box image has been imported into Photoroom. The box takes up most of the canvas, with very little space between the box's edges and the edges of the canvas.

Notice how the object is larger and made to fill more of the available space. This is because the padding is a small amount (5%).

The same image with the padding set to 25% looks like this:

A box image has been imported into Photoroom. The box is quite small in the middle of the canvas. There is lots of space between the edges of the box and the edges of the canvas.

Here, the object is smaller and there more space around it. This is because the padding is high (25%), and so there is a large internal margin.

Photoroom applies the padding amount to new images automatically, and the default amount is 5%.

To learn how to change the amount of padding in Photoroom, see Change the amount of padding.

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