On 06/24/2010 08:57 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 06/24/2010 08:43 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: >>> >> Don't forget that you can assign some transparency to your shadow to >> soften it a bit. I haven't played around with it, but I wonder if >> something might be done with gradients or maybe even patterns in the >> fill of the shadow object to give it a softer edge. >> > > And so some brief playing around shows this as a possible strategy: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/File:Scribusmanual_Polynesia.png > > This is a shape under the image with a vertical gradient, a couple of > black stops with white at the bottom edge, then transparency to the > blacks (with each black stop possibly having its own setting).
Here is another quickie sort of example of what might be done. I'll make a wiki page with some examples later. This one was done by making a rectangle in Inkscape, then applying a simple blur, then saving as a PNG (I'll try SVG later, but not sure if it will work). In Scribus, I then imported the PNG to an image frame, then saved as a pattern (if an SVG can be imported successfully, you should be able to use these as patterns also AFAIK), which I could then use as the fill of an empty frame. You have a number of adjustments of the pattern that can be made in the color tab, such as X/Y scaling, offsets, and transparency. Not the best quality since I was in a hurry: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/File:Scribusmanual_Polynesia1.png I might add that it helped to put this shadow on a layer underneath the layer the image was on for ease of editing/playing. Greg
