william f. maddock said the following at 03/06/2007 04:48 AM : > If I understand what you are attempting, your problem is a > misunderstanding of the functionality of opacity. The opacity attribute > only applies WITHIN THE IMAGE in GIMP, being used to set the blending > characteristics of the layer having the semi-transparent opacity setting > with the layers that are beneath it within the GIMP image. Once the > image is saved to be used in another application, the opacity attribute > is no longer there. When the image was flattened, the layers blended, > upon saving to the PNG format, the opacity did its job at that point in > order to accomplish the proper blending of the layers to achieve the > final image that gets saved out of GIMP. > > If you must blend the intended background with the image that you wish > to be 15% opaque, you will have to do so in GIMP, then import the result > of that into scribus.
Oh! You mean that basically I have to build everything in GIMP? Oh dear. That will mean that all the image material will end up being on a single layer in Scribus, which will make the layout much more difficult than I was expecting, since I will have to lay out all the image material precisely in GIMP, which is much harder than doing it in Scribus. I thought I was trying to do something easy, but apparently not :-( > >> 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. > > As I recall, scribus has no opacity function. Personally, I don't think > it should have one. That should be accomplished in an image processor or > a drawing program, not in a page layout program, such as scribus. Page > layout is for laying out the elements of the page. Other than typing, > those elements should have already been created in another application. > Depending on the background you intend to use, one thing you can do is > to take the appropriate portion of the background into GIMP for > combining with the foreground image, then place the result in scribus on > top of the background at the appropriate place on the page. > >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Scribus mailing list >> Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> > _________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > http://www.lulu.com/billsey > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
