Safe areas

Safe areas are two guide frames over the picture. Use them to keep titles and important action away from the edges, where a screen or a player’s controls can cover them.

Menu: View ▸ Safe Areas
Where: The Safe checkbox in the toolbar

Safe area guides

Choose View ▸ Safe Areas, or tick Safe in the toolbar. Two centred frames appear, one at 90 % of the canvas’s width and height and one at 80 %. On a 1920 × 1080 canvas that’s 1728 × 972 and 1536 × 864.

The frames aren’t labelled, and the inner one is drawn fainter. The menu item has a checkmark while they show.

The guides are off to begin with, and Frame Job remembers your choice between launches.

Good to know

The percentages are of the canvas, not the pane, so the frames zoom and pan with the picture.
They take no clicks, so everything under them still works.
They’re guides only. They never appear in an export or a saved frame.