As an example, let's create a postcard. It's an easy document that won't need many features and, therefore, we can concentrate on our image issues. We'll go through the dos and don'ts to let you experiment with the problems that you might have with a bad workflow. We will use this example throughout the chapter and get back to it later to explain some parts.
Let's create a two page, A6 landscape document with a small margin guide of 6mm.
After creating the page, use Page | Manage Guides and add one vertical guide with a gap of 5mm and one horizontal guide with a gap of 20mm.
In the first frame, import (File | Import | Get Image) the
pict8-1.psd
file. Notice that it is in a folder calledPhotos
, with some other files that we will use in this document. When you're in the file selector, Scribus shows some file information: you can see the size in pixels (1552x2592), the resolution (72x72), and the colorspace (RGB). This information will help us later.This...