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Help Using Inkscape => Beyond the Basics => Topic started by: DynV on April 09, 2017, 02:39:19 PM
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I'm trying to set a drop glow color. I can currently only make a white one, I'd like to make a green one.
I found something that seem to be the good way to go ionflux | Inkscape Glow Tutorial (http://www.ionflux.org/en/inkscape_glow_tutorial_01.html). When I add Flood it's at the bottom and I can't seem to bring it to the top as the visual guide display. I'm not even sure this is the right was to change its color.
My desired end result is 2 glows: a green on 1 side and the other white, ie: 1 bottom-right and 1 top-left. I asked on irc://freenode/%23inkscape but after over 1 hr I'm trying my luck here.
Thank you kindly
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Welcome aboard!
Personally I think that tutorial is overly complicated and outdated in parts etc.
Like, since then the fractalize extension can be better reproduced by the roughen path effect in 0.92.
For various glow effects making a custom filter may be alot easier than masking objects.
What exactly are you after/what is the main purpose of that glow effect?
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Attached an example with a custom filter containing both inner and outer glow achieved by flood fills and Gaussian blurs.
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Welcome!
So that I didn't have to read the whole tutorial, I tried searching for "Flood" which is not found on that page. So something must be "off" somewhere. Or maybe flood is a translation which misses the mark? Also I'm trying to figure out what "Flood" is at the bottom of, that you can't bring to the top.
Oh! Unless you mean you named a layer "Flood"? In the Layers dialog, which I see is open from the images in the tutorial, there are a series of 4 green buttons: Move to top, Move up one step, Move down one step, and Move to bottom. So that way, you can arrange the layers.
Because I can think of so many different situations where you might want to do what you describe (with the 2 glow effects), I hesitate to write you some steps to reach your goal. Generally, a blur is used to create a glow effect. You can get access to blurring at the bottom of Object menu > Fill and Stroke. Basically you need to either draw a shape which will become the glow, and blur it; or you can duplicate your object and move it behind and down (or up) and blur that. Or it might be possible to use a filter.
But if you can show us what you're doing (or show an example) we can tell you more clearly how to do it. Or, you could download the SVG which Lazur attached, and study how he did it.