Alright, thank you for the help!

Ah, okay, so it's just that I can't use the path effects on the group as a whole, but I can on the individual paths inside? Say I wanted to take a big circular chunk out of the flower with the "difference" option under Paths. Could you do this? Or is there no way to treat the whole flower ...

Hello, I'm pretty brand new to Inkscape. I've only been using it for about a week now. I'm creating a 2d video game sprite who will be animated in a program called Spriter. Spriter requires all of the body parts to be individual PNG files. So I have her upper arms, upper legs, torso, pelvis, neck, h...