[scribus] Coloured photo borders

[Gregory Pittman]

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).

Incidentally, the manual was quite refreshed after its cruise holiday.

Greg