Since making this video, I have discovered a much better way to soften a clipped edge. Instead of putting the clipped object on it's own layer and blurring the layer, you can group the object (on it's own) then blur the group. This allows you to place it or group it just like any other object 👍
I'm so glad I clicked on this video! I've been using inkscape for a couple of years and I haven't been able to create complicated designs. This really helps!
So clear and concise! Thank you for such a helpful video. I especially appreciate that you contextualized masking in this way. I have watched other videos that showed how to do masking, but only in an abstract way, and I really couldn't understand when or why you would ever use it. But now I get it, thanks to you.
Hello from a very cold south coast in UK this has been very helpful and no I didnt already know this stuff but then Im a newbie anyway so stuff like this is most helpful and now I dont have to spend weeks pulling out my hair so thank you
@@slowpainful I spent a good few years living in Kent (Just to the SE of London), Ramsgate, Canterbury, Dover and a couple of small villages in the same area - so an hours drive down the road.
@@CreateForFree I am really impressed with the latest Inscape. aside from all the new features I am surprised how fast and stable it is on my potato laptop. I have a very slow low RAM, slow HDD, CPU, but inkscpae always runs much better than proprietary programs on my faster office machine
I've been thinking about trying Linux, Windows is great and easy to use but it does mean that programs run alot slower, do you use any programs such as Wine so you can run Windows software?
@@CreateForFree I do use wine but hardly use it to run Windows software as I am not needing it on my potato laptop. wine has quite improved what with valve and proton improving upon it for their steam deck console. there are quite a few apps that are a UI for wine such as Bottles and playonlinux etc. there's also a paid program from codemasters or something that is an excellent program for running windows apps on Linux and Mac.
If you want to clip the image to the shape of a circle, then with the circle on top - select both and use 'Set Clip'. If you want to cut the circle out of the picture then you would use 'Set Inverse Clip', that said I just tried it in Inskscape 1.2 and it just did the same as 'Set Clip' ?? If this is happening to you, you could position your circle where you want to cut out the hole then draw a rectangle over the whole lot. Lower it down so it is under the circle, then select both the circle and the rectangle and go to Path - Difference, this will cut the circle out of the rectangle. Then select the rectangle and the image and use 'Object - Clip - Set Clip' and it should cut the circle out of your image.
My goal is to cut out the Black shape of the State of New York from the Orange circle while retaining the Black State of New York shape. Group those and remove the circle/ shape combination from a Black Triangle. Thus all will be on the same level. In the finale it would become a decal. I think you would see what I am envisioning if I could transmit a .jpg of it as it stands right now.
There is a power clip LPE but you will probably find clip groups more useful, which allows you to clip a group of objects as well as adjust them without removing the clip.
@@yuyutalks Clip works on groups as well as individual paths, so you could just drag out a rectangle behind the other elements, group them and clip the whole lot in one go. alternatively, you could create a clip group which uses the colour of the path you convert into the clip group. Can't remember if I mentioned in the following video but you can right click on the clip group and use enter group to work inside the clipped area and double clip outside the clip group to exit it. Watch this video on Clip Groups and it will hopefully make more sense. th-cam.com/video/ht4wdce0ra4/w-d-xo.html
Clipping doesn't work for me in 1.2. When I draw a shape over my image, it doesn't have a colour like yours did - it's just transparent with an orange border. And selecting it and then setting clip does nothing at all.
The colour of the shape you draw over the top is just set by you, either in the fill and stroke dialog box or using the Swatch at the bottom (select the shape and click on a colour or hold shift and click on a colour to change the colour of the stroke) When you use it to clip, the shape you want to use as the clipping mask must be on top and you should have both the clipping shape and the object below selected - hold down shift to select multiple objects, then use set clip. Good luck!
If you are using Object - Clip - Set to clip your objects then you can use Object - Clip - Release Clip to undo the clip, you can then make the adjustments and clip it again. Alternatively you can use clip groups which allow you to adjust objects within the clip group without the need to release the clip. I demonstrate this in the following videos. In this video I explain clip groups: Clip Groups | Water Colour Filter | Inkscape - Flower Border th-cam.com/video/ht4wdce0ra4/w-d-xo.html and in this one I use clip groups in Inkscape 1.2 with the new Layers and Objects dialog box: Inkscape 1.2 Trace Bitmap th-cam.com/video/Vbb2qc9I9xg/w-d-xo.html I also demonstrate how you can select objects in the L&O dialog box.
Am I missing something, or is the clipping feature kind of redundant with masking? The only difference is that clipping doesn't care about the color of the object being used to clip, isn't it?
That's right, you can clip with a mask but it's more work. 9 times out if 10 I just want to crop things to the right shape, so clipping is quick and easy
Try opening up a new document, create a simple shape like a circle. Then draw a rectangle over the top, give it a black to white gradient and go to Object - Mask - Set Mask. Your original shape should fade out at one side. Sometimes Inkscape has little glitches that are often isolated to a single document, if it works on the new document but not your original one, try selecting all the elements of your project from the original document (without the mask), copy them and paste them into the new document and then try applying a mask and hopefully it will work. If it doesn't work on either then you might want to uninstall Inscape and reinstall it - can upgrade to Inkscape 1.2 if you haven't already. Hopefully one of these will fix your problem.
I'm thinking that masks should never be in the shape of the underlying object, otherwise we have a double transparency on edges. The first anti aliasing transparency of edges from the underlying object, and the second one from the mask. So either we have to make the underlying object a rectangle, or the mask should be a rectangle.
I think anti aliasing is applied to the image as a whole when rendered to smooth pixelated edges, I'm not sure how noticeable it would be but it's a good point, Thanks
Since making this video, I have discovered a much better way to soften a clipped edge. Instead of putting the clipped object on it's own layer and blurring the layer, you can group the object (on it's own) then blur the group. This allows you to place it or group it just like any other object 👍
I'm so glad I clicked on this video! I've been using inkscape for a couple of years and I haven't been able to create complicated designs. This really helps!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! Thank you! I’m extremely grateful you shared your knowledge here in such a concise and easy sequence. Just the right pace to learn from! Thanks!
Your welcome.
After watching various TH-cam videos on how to clip objects, I finally learned how to properly do it with your video.🙌
I'm pleased to hear my video helped 🙂
You're the only one who explained WHY you duplicate the object before you click Object-Clip-Set. TY!
You're welcome ☺️
So clear and concise! Thank you for such a helpful video. I especially appreciate that you contextualized masking in this way. I have watched other videos that showed how to do masking, but only in an abstract way, and I really couldn't understand when or why you would ever use it. But now I get it, thanks to you.
Thanks for your comments, glad you found it helpful.
Hello from a very cold south coast in UK this has been very helpful and no I didnt already know this stuff but then Im a newbie anyway so stuff like this is most helpful and now I dont have to spend weeks pulling out my hair so thank you
Glad you found it helpful. Also on the South coast, still a chill in the air but it's been a nice day here
Thanks, Hanney for your comment, TH-cam seems to have removed the comment but it did come through on my emails :-) Glad you found it helpful
TY for this excellent tutorial...keep em coming!
Thanks again for the positive feedback, always good to hear my videos are helpful.
Excellent video, perfectly paced. This can be such a difficult subject to explain
Thanks
Nice, thanks for the lesson!
My pleasure!
Really helpful, thank you so much! Also, I lived in Britain for a long time so I loved when you said "bits n bobs" lol.
Glad to help. So where abouts did you live?
@@CreateForFree I lived in London 1974 to 1990- everywhere from Muswell Hill to Bayswater to Brixton! I moved a lot. Most amazing city.
@@slowpainful I spent a good few years living in Kent (Just to the SE of London), Ramsgate, Canterbury, Dover and a couple of small villages in the same area - so an hours drive down the road.
This is very skillful. Thanks, u got my sub
Thanks for subscribing, hope you found it helpful.
Downloaded inkscape last week. Binge watching videos to learn how to use it. Your video helped a lot, thanks very much.
Glad to hear they're helping, feel free to ask if you get stuck - and suggestions for videos are always welcome
@@CreateForFree Thanks, l will..
Not done this before, so thank you for the great tutorial.
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Really good I had no idea that was posible in IS. Thank you!
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Great tutorial, many thanks.
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Nice job, Sir.
Thank you! Cheers!
Great tutorial my friend.
Thanks for sharing this simple and so effective technique.
loving your videos keep em comming! 👍🐺👍
Thanks, I like your wolf logo!
Very useful tutorial. Many thanks .
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Amazing thanks for sharing this information.👍😃
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Awesome video, 15 min well invested 👍
Being able to add graduated shading to your artwork can makes a huge difference, glad you found it helpful.
Nice! Thank you so much
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Clever. Thanks!
thanks useful ideas
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thank you for the video
You're welcome 👍
@@CreateForFree I am really impressed with the latest Inscape. aside from all the new features I am surprised how fast and stable it is on my potato laptop. I have a very slow low RAM, slow HDD, CPU, but inkscpae always runs much better than proprietary programs on my faster office machine
I have also found inkscape is much more faster and stable on Linux than Windows.
I've been thinking about trying Linux, Windows is great and easy to use but it does mean that programs run alot slower, do you use any programs such as Wine so you can run Windows software?
@@CreateForFree I do use wine but hardly use it to run Windows software as I am not needing it on my potato laptop. wine has quite improved what with valve and proton improving upon it for their steam deck console. there are quite a few apps that are a UI for wine such as Bottles and playonlinux etc. there's also a paid program from codemasters or something that is an excellent program for running windows apps on Linux and Mac.
I have drawn a circle and I have an image. I want to cut out of the circle. How would I do that? Would that be a reverse clip?
If you want to clip the image to the shape of a circle, then with the circle on top - select both and use 'Set Clip'.
If you want to cut the circle out of the picture then you would use 'Set Inverse Clip', that said I just tried it in Inskscape 1.2 and it just did the same as 'Set Clip' ??
If this is happening to you, you could position your circle where you want to cut out the hole then draw a rectangle over the whole lot. Lower it down so it is under the circle, then select both the circle and the rectangle and go to Path - Difference, this will cut the circle out of the rectangle. Then select the rectangle and the image and use 'Object - Clip - Set Clip' and it should cut the circle out of your image.
My goal is to cut out the Black shape of the State of New York from the Orange circle while retaining the Black State of New York shape. Group those and remove the circle/ shape combination from a Black Triangle. Thus all will be on the same level. In the finale it would become a decal. I think you would see what I am envisioning if I could transmit a .jpg of it as it stands right now.
@@154Colin You could send it to create-for-free@outlook.com if you like, write a description of what you want to do and I'll see if I can help.
Thank YOU !!!!!
You're welcome
Learn lots of things from the video
Glad you found it helpful
What is all these complication? Powerclip feature needs to be added to Inkscape ASAP. The only reason why I would have to go back to windows
There is a power clip LPE but you will probably find clip groups more useful, which allows you to clip a group of objects as well as adjust them without removing the clip.
@@CreateForFree then how do you add a solid color to the background of the clip?
@@yuyutalks Clip works on groups as well as individual paths, so you could just drag out a rectangle behind the other elements, group them and clip the whole lot in one go. alternatively, you could create a clip group which uses the colour of the path you convert into the clip group. Can't remember if I mentioned in the following video but you can right click on the clip group and use enter group to work inside the clipped area and double clip outside the clip group to exit it.
Watch this video on Clip Groups and it will hopefully make more sense.
th-cam.com/video/ht4wdce0ra4/w-d-xo.html
Clipping doesn't work for me in 1.2. When I draw a shape over my image, it doesn't have a colour like yours did - it's just transparent with an orange border. And selecting it and then setting clip does nothing at all.
The colour of the shape you draw over the top is just set by you, either in the fill and stroke dialog box or using the Swatch at the bottom (select the shape and click on a colour or hold shift and click on a colour to change the colour of the stroke)
When you use it to clip, the shape you want to use as the clipping mask must be on top and you should have both the clipping shape and the object below selected - hold down shift to select multiple objects, then use set clip. Good luck!
How do you edit an object once it is clipped inside another object after deselecting it?
If you are using Object - Clip - Set to clip your objects then you can use Object - Clip - Release Clip to undo the clip, you can then make the adjustments and clip it again.
Alternatively you can use clip groups which allow you to adjust objects within the clip group without the need to release the clip. I demonstrate this in the following videos.
In this video I explain clip groups:
Clip Groups | Water Colour Filter | Inkscape - Flower Border
th-cam.com/video/ht4wdce0ra4/w-d-xo.html
and in this one I use clip groups in Inkscape 1.2 with the new Layers and Objects dialog box:
Inkscape 1.2 Trace Bitmap
th-cam.com/video/Vbb2qc9I9xg/w-d-xo.html
I also demonstrate how you can select objects in the L&O dialog box.
@@CreateForFree Thank you.
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Am I missing something, or is the clipping feature kind of redundant with masking? The only difference is that clipping doesn't care about the color of the object being used to clip, isn't it?
That's right, you can clip with a mask but it's more work. 9 times out if 10 I just want to crop things to the right shape, so clipping is quick and easy
Masking doesn't work for the reflection, I get either a white or a black square.
Try opening up a new document, create a simple shape like a circle. Then draw a rectangle over the top, give it a black to white gradient and go to Object - Mask - Set Mask. Your original shape should fade out at one side. Sometimes Inkscape has little glitches that are often isolated to a single document, if it works on the new document but not your original one, try selecting all the elements of your project from the original document (without the mask), copy them and paste them into the new document and then try applying a mask and hopefully it will work. If it doesn't work on either then you might want to uninstall Inscape and reinstall it - can upgrade to Inkscape 1.2 if you haven't already. Hopefully one of these will fix your problem.
I'm thinking that masks should never be in the shape of the underlying object, otherwise we have a double transparency on edges. The first anti aliasing transparency of edges from the underlying object, and the second one from the mask.
So either we have to make the underlying object a rectangle, or the mask should be a rectangle.
I think anti aliasing is applied to the image as a whole when rendered to smooth pixelated edges, I'm not sure how noticeable it would be but it's a good point, Thanks
obnoxious intro
Watch a few more of my early videos - you might get to like it!