I'm new to Inkscape and I am trying to learn as I go.

Right now, I am following tutorials on Youtube, this one in particular right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62msKgMVirQ
 

At about 3 minutes in, he duplicates the object and applies a border. This is where I start to experience something different to what is being shown in the video.

Simply put, when I try to do it to my object, the bother reduces the size of the object I am adding it to, as is shown in this image:
 

https://imgur.com/4oW793p

Is there something I need to do to get the border to act the way it does in the video?

Thanks in advance.

The Red color is transparent and the normal order is: Fill/Stroke/Markers but you want: Stroke/Fill/Markers what you can apply in the Fill and Stroke tab under Order:.

I tried that, but it doesn't make any difference. The border applied to the red object at the back still  makes the object smaller.

Really? Show me.

https://i.imgur.com/jhH3uDX.gif

What is path7166 doing other than blocking your view onto path9402?

Path 7166 is the green S in front of path 9042 which is the red S. Both are at 50% transparency, as is shown in the video tutorial I am trying to replicate.

https://i.imgur.com/mdf6Pjh.gif

Correction: Only the green S in the foreground has 50% opacity.

Actually, the red object 9402 also has transparency... observe the fill/stroke indicator in the lower left corner.

I'd make 7166 opaque, so the red does not show through.

I know that.

I'm not having a problem with transparency. My problem is that when applying a border to the object in the back (the red S), the border is being applied at the expense of the size of the S itself.

This is the video I'm trying to replicate.

https://youtu.be/62msKgMVirQ?t=145

I guess you converted the text object with Stroke to Path. That's why fill order has no effect. Show us with the node tool selected.

@Surebrec,

Stroke is always applied to both the inside and outside of a shape or path. http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Attributes-Fill-Stroke.html . (It does not affect the underlying geometry.)

It can be hidden by a fill, using the paint-order controls Polygon has illustrated.

https://i.imgur.com/KonbrvH.png

Ok - that´s how SVG is looking in Inkscape: Stroke+coloured filled object . I still don´t get what your issue is with that.

My issue with it, is that what I am doing, it isn't reflecting the steps in the video I posted the link to.

In the video, the narrator when he applies adds the border, it's being added to the outside of the object. It doesn't overlap the fill. When I do it, the border is over-lapping the fill by 50% of it's width, making the fill smaller.

https://i.imgur.com/SLovTmF.gif

I recently came back to give it another try and I'm still getting the same issue, as demonstrated above.

https://youtu.be/62msKgMVirQ?t=175
 

In this video when he applies the border, it's applied to the exterior of the fill. It doesn't overlap the fill as it's doing with me. I've tried adjusting the order as suggested already but it doesn't fix the issue.

Here's a picture of the border set to red with a radius of 30 PX, overlapping the grey fill. Do you see the issue I am having now? This isn't how it works in the video.

https://i.imgur.com/ZZTipe7.jpg

It still looks like there is transparency: I'd ensure both objects are 100% opaque: fill, stroke and object.

To make this easier, attach the Inkscape SVG at the current state, by clicking the paperclip button at the bottom of the reply window.

I know there's transparency there. I set the transparency to better show what it's doing. My problem isn't the transparency. My problem is that the border is overlapping the fill by 50% of it's width

If I remove the transparency, it still does it.

https://imgur.com/8A4MBH7.


 

Surebrec

My problem isn't the transparency.

Sure about that?

Even setting that to 100%, it's still doing it.

Note that both objects must be 100% opaque and the larger (green) object is lower in the Z-order.

Attached is a vid of the process, no narration.