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Design Made Easy with Inkscape
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In the preceding chapter, we saw how easy it was to apply and stack path effects on our shapes to get specific results. Filters offer a similar sort of advantage but can do much more beyond modifying vectors. Filters can make bitmap-like effects, some of which are hard or impossible with vector shapes alone.
We’ve actually used filters in a roundabout way already. For example, when we set the Blur slider value in the Fill and Stroke dialog, we’re actually telling Inkscape to apply a Gaussian Blur filter to the object. We can confirm this by looking at the status bar to see that the selected object is now filtered, as shown in Figure 13.1.
Figure 13.1 – Adding blur in the Fill and Stroke dialog in turn adds a Blur filter to the object
This is also how the Blend mode object (also in the Fill and Stroke dialog) works. So, what other things can we do with filters? Well, lots of things as it turns out!
A simple look...