Yes Brynn :) I see where the confusion came from - I originally just took a screenshot of Inkscape itself to show what it was supposed to look like, and then what it actually exported as. The cutoff on the left and right sides are because I was zoomed in too much - I wanted to be close enough that t...

Erm. You posted those links in the same order I did :P I'm talking about the white blur on the left side of the letters, just to clarify. And while those are all perfectly logical reasonings, I'm sure everything's completely inside page borders, considering that the rest of the image underneath expo...

Okay, so I'm doing a bit of generic shiny Inkscape practice after being inspired by the latest Heathenx tutorial, right? And I come up with this, nothing amazing but eh. It's shiny. http://mrdude1228.googlepages.com/Testing-inky.png However. Whenever I attempt to export it to PNG, I end up with this...

I love these tutorials. I manage to learn something new with every one, and I daresay half to 3/4 of the specific techniques I know in Inkscape, I know because of these screencasts :P Even when it comes to the stuff I have no use for, like the one where you make that tiny green OpenSUSE (?) button, ...

Just remember layers are there purely to make your life easier. I mean, I start every project off with 3 - One for what I consider the background, a middle one where I keep the majority of stuff so I can z-order it freely, and then a top layer where I keep text. The locking feature of layers is real...