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    • SektaS Offline
      Sekta
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      I hope everyone is managing to deal with the Xmas rush....its got real busy down here in NZ. I have a quick question for the LO gurus of the forum. I am in the process of preparing a site analysis document which is based on an aerial photo. I want to fade out the photo and do some LO line work over the top with a drop shadow. Is this possible in LO?

      Thanks in advance for any help you can on this.

      Stan

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      • utilerU Offline
        utiler
        last edited by

        Hi SEKTA, not sure if I dig entirely.

        So you want to bring in an image that you can make partially opaque? You can open an image within LO with your preferred image editing program and manipulate it there.....

        A drop shadow; do you mean bring in a model over the top of the aerial and cast shadows?

        purpose/expression/purpose/....

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        • SektaS Offline
          Sekta
          last edited by

          Something Like the attached


          Overlay.pdf

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          • utilerU Offline
            utiler
            last edited by

            Ah, I see.

            As i said, you can open your image from within LO and edit the opacity with an external program.
            Unfortunately, there is no function for shadowing for LO tools, maybe something to add to the beat list..... πŸ˜‰

            The only way around it would be to draw your linework, group, multiple copy and nudge it away from the original position. put it on a separate layer so it is partially hidden under the main linework.....

            Like this.
            LO-DropShadows.pdf
            Can't get shadows to fade though but is a good idea.

            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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            • SektaS Offline
              Sekta
              last edited by

              Thanks Andrew,

              That's quite effective, I might give it a go. πŸ‘ πŸ‘

              Stan

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              • B Offline
                bjanzen
                last edited by

                The Mac has drop shadows on text by nature of the Mac Text System, but not on lines like this. However, we've had people do this via option/control drag-copying your arrow and changing the color (by sampling your arrows shadow color). I didn't try too hard to match your style, so you'd see which one I added.

                b


                foo.pdf

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                • DavidBoulderD Offline
                  DavidBoulder
                  last edited by

                  You may also consider bringing the final product into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop (via PDF export from Layout). Not only can you add your line shadows, but you could alter the line style, and of course you could alter the underlying photo.

                  --

                  David Goldwasser
                  OpenStudio Developer
                  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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                  • cmdC Offline
                    cmd
                    last edited by

                    To fade a part of your image, aside from altering your image file as mentioned above, you can also draw vector shapes over the top of the areas you want to fade out and then change their opacity.


                    faded image.layout

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                    • SektaS Offline
                      Sekta
                      last edited by

                      Thanks for the input guys. I have gone with bjanzens suggestion which looks great. It would be great to able to Blurr the drop shadow slightly and I was wondering if this could be done with the fog function in LO. I haven't really figured out yet what this function does.

                      S

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                      • B Offline
                        bjanzen
                        last edited by

                        Yes, as an example, go to the arrows scrapbook, page Arrows | 3D | Curved. These are really SketchUp models, so you can open them in SketchUp, adjust fog, color, camera angle, etc... then insert in LayOut.

                        b

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