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Design Made Easy with Inkscape
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Say, instead of a drop shadow, we’d like a filter that automatically shades the interior of one side of our shapes so that they look 3D instead of 2D. We can start with a new file and draw a plain circle, and then choose Filters > Filter Editor (with the circle still selected).
We are presented with a blank space and a familiar looking + button at the top. Click the + button, and also tick the Filter checkbox so that we can see the result of our filter. As you can see from Figure 13.4, this makes the circle vanish!
Figure 13.4 – Adding a filter and activating it with the checkbox makes the circle vanish
This makes sense though when you think about it; we’ve told Inkscape to filter the circle and give it nothing as a recipe, so it gives us nothing back! We could actually use this as a vanish effect if we really wanted to, but we already have Object > Hide.
Let’s move along to adding our first...