On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:29:34 -0400 Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com> wrote:
> Nigel Ridley a ?crit : > > I checked on the wiki but couldn't find anything. > > How can I do a drop shadow for images? I can already do a [gray] > > background shape, reduce the opacity and shade to what is desired - > > but how do I 'fade' the edges as in a real 'shadow'? > > Scribus can?t help on this but GIMP would and if you have lots of > pics, call Phatch to the rescue. > > http://photobatch.stani.be/ Scribus-1.3.5 (SVN couple of weeks ago) had a blur option with an image. However I have not been able to find a workflow to make a 'shadow' for an image. Inscape will produce blurred svgs, but Scribus does not incorporate this svg feature (yet/) Personally I think Gimp is probably the best way in any case -- Owen
