Christoph Sch?fer said the following at 03/06/2007 06:46 PM : > Select the image frame, open the properties palette, go to the "Colour" tab > and select "None". If want to make this the default behaviour, you can do so > in "File > Preferences" (general) or "File > Document Setup" (current > document) under "Tools".
I think that billsey at earthlink.net clarified a lot of things for me. It seems like I was making a fundamental error in thinking that Scribus was the right tool for creating a complex layered image (for a book cover), and instead I should be using GIMP for it. I had been thinking that the right way to proceed was to use GIMP to build each image, and then I would use Scribus to position the images on multiple layers and move the images on the layers around, but clearly that's not the right approach if Scribus doesn't know anything opacity. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle the text flow of the blurb box on the back cover in GIMP, but I expect that I'll solve that somehow. I have about 12 hours invested in the project so far (which is far too long for what should be a fairly simple task) so basically now I just want to get it done by fair means or foul. Anyway I apologise for asking what turned out to be inappropriate questions here.
