I have one picture in each story and throw them in as they are. My Q.: Are there basic design-options in Scrivener to create shadows etc. for inserting photographs?
Do you mean ‘shadow’ as a placeholder for a photograph, or to have photographs with ‘drop shadows’ (as in the Photoshop option)?
I don’t think you will find any frame of drop settings for photos in Scrivener. Philosophically, such features are the provenance of page layout programs – where the fine points of book layout are handled best, such as InDesign. Some layout niceties, especially with photos, such as text wrap-around you will need to do some post-processing of your compiled output to acheive.
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