On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:44:39 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 06/24/2010 07:22 PM, Ray wrote: >> Thanks to all for their help on my coloured borders problem. I missed >> completely the need to click onto the line - but then to go back to the >> colour tab again. >> The shadow now works fine too by putting a coloured and gradient shape >> under the photo. >> Too easy - thanks very much. > > Ok, now we have something to refer to on the wiki (found in Tips & > Tricks): > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Shadows_around/behind_images
May be worth adding that similar effects can be applied to text as well, where a shadow is not available or the shadow colour needs to be different from the outline. Large format text (cover titles, and that sort of thing) can look quite good with a shadow, so: two text frames, one over the other and offset some, with the lower text in a shade of grey. Someone who's done more experimenting than me can say whether a blur effect could be applied successfully to an image of the text in Gimp or Inkscape, but I regularly use a hard edged shadow quite effectively as above. -- Stewart H. Posting via Gmane
