I'm not sure of an elegant solution, but it may be useful to relax this a bit in the "Registration issues and website problems" forum. If there is a way to post as a guest I cannot figure it out. It's kind of a catch 22. You have to have a registered account to report a registration issue....

I've been trying to teach myself inkscape, and have had a good amount of success rotoscoping images so far. I look forward to getting better at the software, and as an artist. Though I'll admit I'm mostly posting this to try and get though the five posts that need to be moderated before I'm allowed ...

I first tried to register, but my Hotmail account never received any messages. I tried several times, made sure I had used the right email, checked my junk folder, and asked the system to resend the message several times. I created a new forum account with a Gmail account and was able to register. A...

I think the process you're looking for is called "cropping" or "clipping." Here's a short and sweet tutorial that should get you on track.

http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/inkscape-faq-how-do-i-crop-in-inkscape/

There's a thing that has been giving me a hassle lately. The cel-shaded style I'm using involves thick outlines on images, and often has interior designs that are supposed to reach the outline, but not overlap it. Here's an example of what I don't want, vs what I want. (ignore the fact that one outl...