I am slowly (very slowly :-) ) making some progress at understanding Scribus.
Here is the issue that currently has me stumped. 1. My lowest layer is coloured a uniform grey colour. 2. In GIMP, I have created an image with opacity 15%, and exported it to PNG. 3. Back in Scribus, I created a new layer (call it gimpimage) 4. On the gimpimage layer, I created an image frame of the right size, and imported the image. But the result doesn't seem to show any of the background layer through the gimpimage layer (the background seems to be white rather than the grey colour of the lowest layer). I've looked to see if I can find a setting to tell an entire layer not to be completely opaque, but there doesn't seem to be any such setting. So I am very confused about the right way to layer a semi-transparent image on top of a background. Any advice/help (especially if couched in simple terms) would be most helpful. Oh, and this may be a completely different issue, but if I Cut the GIMP image and tried to Paste it directly into Scribus, nothing seemed to happen. It seems like I had to actually save the GIMP image as a PNG image and then do a Get Picture in Scribus. Is that expected behaviour? I don't really mind (it's safer anyway to have a backup file of the image), but it just surprised me that I couldn't simply cut-and-paste the image from GIMP to Scribus.
