Okay tried it..it worked great...all done....thank you everyone for all of your help. Couldnt have done it without all of you...thanks again!!!

okay thanks...going to give it a go again tonight......will let you all know how I make out..thanks again..

thanks everyone for your help...yeah ya know. I thought I was going crazy..it is a bitmap and it doesnt work....I was trying over and over again...I thought it was me.... yes it is an imported picture...hmm so can inkscape do this? I tried both strategies above and neither seemed to work...I'll try ...

Hi Mathieu.thanks for the reply...Im new to inkscape so please bear with me...Im still trying to learn...I have two copies of the object... when you say two clipping paths..could please explain what you mean? Again sorry, Im still really new to inkscape...If i draw around one side of the dollar bill...

Hi Brynn..thanks for the reply...yeah I tried what you said to do but it didnt work...am I doing something wrong? I've tried a few different ways since last night....Like I said before, I can make a tear in the dollar bill but the left side disappears after I clip it.. I tried not clipping it and no...

Hi, I'm trying to tear an object in half like a piece of paper. So far I've been able to create a simple tear in a dollar bill type of picture but the problem is the other side of the bill always disappears. This is what I do: I use the draw freehand tool to create a circle around the the half of th...

Hi everyone..I've been having problem trying to fade out an object. Here is what I'm trying to do. I created a simple grid from the render-grid function. Now I want to fade out the grid on the right side so it literally fades out into the white/plain background. I was able to fade that portion out b...