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Scribus => Beginner Talk => Topic started by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 06:09:03 PM

Title: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 06:09:03 PM
I am trying to import an image and Scribus is changing the image dramatically!

I am importing an file showing grasses (made with a stamp in photoshop) and the first time it showed all the grass as being bright ORANGE (it is green in reality). I went back to the file in photoshop, flattened it, saved it as tiff and re-imported it, only this time it is missing two of the layers- i.e. the bottom half!

Every time I go back to photoshop, the image is exactly as it should be, green and complete.

Importing images should be a no-brainer, something I have done a million times so I am not sure where I am going wrong...

Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 06:36:59 PM
hi karela

i don't see a way to help without access to your document. (.sla and placed image file)

utnik
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 06:44:34 PM
Here is the tiff that I imported as well as what it currently looks like in Scribus. It should be a green gradient down to the logos. (which are a bit messy because they are still a work in progress).

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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 07:01:11 PM
can't seem to upload a tiff, so here is a jpeg to show what it should look like!

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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 07:01:56 PM
hi karela

you uploaded the .sla file – but none of the images...

utnik

edit: with the .jpg file it looks ok. see screenshot!

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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 07:04:28 PM
Our replies must have crossed! Sorry, it took me a while to figure out that I couldn't upload the actual image because it was a .tiff.
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 07:14:25 PM
you could upload .tiff files as .zip archives...

utnik
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 07:29:09 PM
Is it clear from the jpeg or would it be better to upload the tiff as a zip?
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 07:36:36 PM
hi karela

take a look at my screenshot and tell me what's wrong. i don't see anything unusual (except of the fact that the .jpg comes with a resolution as low as 34 ppi...)

utnik
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 07:52:14 PM
Utnik, your screenshot is beautiful....but does it look anything like what you see in my .sla file?

The low resolution is because before I noticed that it was not possible to upload .tiffs I thought that the problem was that my file was too large, so I made it very low resolution.
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 07:57:09 PM
this is a screenshot of your .sla file with the placed (and enlarged) .jpg file – i don't have any of the other images...

for a real check of the issue you could upload the whole project ('file' → 'collect for output' then compress the whole folder to a .zip file...)

utnik
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 09:24:36 PM
Collected for output and zipped. I took off the logos because they made it too heavy.

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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 09:34:53 PM
hi karela

still no other problem than the low resolution. at least i'm not able to spot it – sorry!

utnik


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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 22, 2014, 09:46:55 PM
Utnik, on the screen shot that you sent before with the jpeg and the one you sent now there is a huge difference between the two files- the one with the jpeg shows the image accurately and the one with the tiff has the bottom layers missing (the solid green gradient).

Here is the compressed tiff I am trying to import.

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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 22, 2014, 10:05:20 PM
hi karela

Quote from: Karela on May 22, 2014, 09:46:55 PM...there is a huge difference between the two files...
...the one with the tiff has the bottom layers missing (the solid green gradient).
yes, there is a difference. but it's your file...
even in gimp or photoshop i can't find different layers, but an alpha channel wich cuts the bottom part – what do you expect?

(the screenshot shows photoshop cs4.)

utnik

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Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 23, 2014, 05:41:42 AM
I am not so familiar on how alpha channels work, I followed an online tutorial for smoothing edges and this was one of the directions (the making of an alpha channel, not the cutting off the bottom part of the image :)).

The gradient layer is/was on top of the other ones, though (I flattened the image when I saved it as a tiff) and the image shows the gradient layer.

What would my options be?

1) Use the jpeg file since it shows the gradient?
2) Add a gradient in Scribus?
3) Attempt to expand the alpha channel to include the bottom half?
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: utnik on May 23, 2014, 08:23:39 AM
hi karela

editing the alpha channel is a good option.
as long as it's the background of your file, you could delete the alpha channel – you don't really need it.

utnik
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Nermander on May 23, 2014, 09:58:23 AM
The reason the JPEG works is that JPEG don't support transparency (and alpha channel is transparency).

So the JPEG only contains, R, G and B, while the TIFF contains R, G, B and A.


A very good tips when something looks different in two programs: Try with a third program!
Title: Re: images importing with changes to colour and layers
Post by: Karela on May 27, 2014, 05:27:20 PM
Alpha channel deleted and problem solved. Thanks so much for your help!