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Title: enlarge selection envelop without touch object
Post by: vinou on March 11, 2018, 11:14:40 PM

Hello every one,

As I'm posting in the beginner questions, I'm new to inkscape.
I recently tried to make a blur that follow the shape of my object. to do that I found that the filter 'background and transparency/shape' could do it. My issue is that when I apply it, the blur effect stops when reaching the selection envelop. So I am wondering if there is any way to enlarge it? Or maybe a way for the filter not to stops at selection envelop?

Thanks for reading me

Title: Re: enlarge selection envelop without touch object
Post by: Moini on March 12, 2018, 10:39:57 AM

The filter 'Fill and Transparency > Silhouette' just applies a normal blur (the same that you can find in Object > Fill and Stroke > Blur slider) after it turned your object into a one-color-only silhouette.

I'm not sure you need it, tbh. - probably the normal blur would work just as well.

Anyway. You can go to Filters > Filter editor, and there you can change the size of the filter region ('selection envelope').

There are probably a couple of other ways to go about this. If you'd like to learn about them, please post a picture of the effect you want to achieve.

Title: Re: enlarge selection envelop without touch object
Post by: vinou on March 12, 2018, 10:47:35 PM

Indeed the blur slider did the trick for m thank you.

When you think you are looking for something complicated but it was just in fill and stroke ^^'.

anyway thanks

Title: Re: enlarge selection envelop without touch object
Post by: Moini on March 13, 2018, 02:33:27 PM

You're welcome :)