Inkscape Clipping and Masking | Inkscape 

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

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!

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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.

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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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ht4wdce0ra4.html

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ht4wdce0ra4.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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vbb2qc9I9xg.html I also demonstrate how you can select objects in the L&O dialog box.

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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.

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

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Glad you found it helpful. Also on the South coast, still a chill in the air but it's been a nice day here

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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.

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..

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Thanks again for the positive feedback, always good to hear my videos are helpful.

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Being able to add graduated shading to your artwork can makes a huge difference, glad you found it helpful.

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@@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.

Watch a few more of my early videos - you might get to like it!

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