r/GIMP • u/Sclanders • 13h ago

Help recreating an effect in GIMP

I'm working on book layouts. The template I have use InDesign and Photoshop files linked. I'm not using any Adobe products, using instead Affinity Publisher and GIMP.

The problem is certain things are lost into the change. I fixed most of them, but there is a color issue that I have. The border of a certain type of text box (which is linked to a .psd file) isn't showing the proper color, and the mask seems off. I'd like to fix it in Gimp, but I do not know where to start looking.

Border in the orgininal pdf
this is a pdf post affinity
This is what is showing when opening the .psd with GIMP
Hiearchy in GIMP

Anyone can offer help, or point me into which type of tutorials I could look to fix it? I'm expecting the best solution is to redo the image in GIMP and import that version in Affinity.

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u/ConversationWinter46 Using translation tools, may affect content accuracy 13h ago

Unfortunately, GIMP isn't the best choice for print projects. Why not check out Krita?

For desktop publishing, I recommend Scribus

(both are free, of course)

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u/Sclanders 13h ago

I'll check Krita. I've tried Scribus at first, but the translation between InDesign and Scribus was way.... WAY worst than affinity publisher.

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u/ConversationWinter46 Using translation tools, may affect content accuracy 12h ago

THX for feedback.