Thanks! I think clipping will be a lot faster and conveniant than masking for this particular task.

Okay I figure it out on my own and discoverred masks :) If anybody out there is curious as I was, You copy the skin area over the shadow and with both selected you go to Objects (I think) then Blur, then set. The skin (image above) disapears and the shadow remains visible. You can now blur without t...

I accidently linked to the png file. Here's the link to the svg file: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anime_Girl.svg

I don't knnow how else to say it. And I didn't even know it was possible until I was analysing this image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anime_Girl.png Does anyone here know how come the blurred shadows on her skin doesn't blur over the region of her arm? I tried looking at how the file look...