Awesome. I -was- doing it wrong. Thanks Lazur. The step where you set a thin stroke, then convert Stroke to path - Does that just make sure that everything is a path of nodes then? What I noticed when I convert to/from a bitmap is that, esp on thick lines, I get a set of nodes on the inside of the l...

I tried doing that by just deleting the inner nodes and it started breaking my spirals up.

Is there an easier way to just get an outline rather than exporting it to bitmap, then re-tracing that bitmap and editing those nodes?

Hello everyone. I'm trying to make an image that's basically conjoined spirals with bezier curves to look like a coloumn of wind. I created 5 spirals of various sizes, then added some bezier curves to make it a contained object, and then I selected everything and conjoined the paths with a solid thi...

I thought I had tried doing that... Ok, maybe check my logic here to make sure I understand the lesson. What I needed to do was ungroup the image, select the layer that was just the plain red fill, duplicate that, and change the stroke style to white, and significantly thicker on just that layer, an...

Ok, that is a more effective way of what I ended up doing, So at least that's something!

Thanks Tylerdurden.

I have another problem that I have been struggling with. I was asked to try to outline a complex red shape with white, so we could put it on a red background (a potential design for a shirt for our group). It already has a black outline, but I wanted to add another white outline outside of that. I t...

Hello again, I have a question about dividing (fairly) simple objects into different colours. As before I'm still fairly new and I'm sure there's something obvious that I missed. I've been using Inkscape for SCA heraldry, which quite often involves taking an object and making it more than one colour...

That is awesome, that does what I need it to with a bit of manipulation

Thanks a lot Lazur URH

Hello all. I'm newish to inkscape and computer graphics in general, so I probably don't even have all the terminology down to begin with, but here goes. I've been using Inkscape to assist in drawing up heraldry for the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronisms). Having vector objects to work with makes...