Hi.

The other day I stumbled over a tutorial on how to make fabric grain in Adobe Illustrator:
http://www.bene.be/blog/comments/making ... lustrator/

I found the look pretty awesome and thought that Inkscape could do something similar.

After struggeling a few hours first searching the web where I found the following which just isn't the same: http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/ ... e-youtube/
Then experimenting with "Clone > Create titled clones..." just to realize that I don't have the skills for this fabric thing

Does anyone know how to make a similar effect as the tutorial for Illustrator in Inkscape?


Thanks
--Jacob

Welcome Jacob!

I've been trying to create a filter like that. The problem is that there are some things about creating filters that I don't understand. I'm working with another member to try and figure it out, and if we do, to possibly write a tutorial. I know that it's possible to do what you want. I just don't know how yet. But look up ivan_louette at Open Clipart Library http://www.openclipart.org/. He has a bunch of filters there which are not packed with Inkscape. I think there is a kind of fabric one, but I can't remember for sure.

Oh! Well I think there is one fabric-like filter packed with Inkscape, that maybe you could tweak. Let's see.... Ok, look at Filters menu > Texture > Silk Carpet, also check Filters menu > Non-Realistic 3D Shaders > Tartan. That 2nd one just might work for you?

Just because we're talking about fabric, I'll mention the pattern fill called Cloth (Fill and Stroke dialog > Fill tab > Pattern button, then scroll to the bottom of the dropdown menu. It creates a sort of linen appearance. But it's not like the tutorial you referenced.

Hmmm for some reason I don't have the Tartan filter (using Inkscape 0.48.3 from Ubuntu), is this added later, or is it something you would need to install manually.

The Cloth fill looks ok, but it is a bitmap so zooming makes i pixelated.

Oh no! Well, 0.48.3 is a development version, and not released yet in a stable version. I don't know if that filter will be removed, when 0.48.3 stable is released, or if they just haven't packed it into the dev version. I hope it's not gone for good. Or maybe 0.48.3 will have an improved version?

Anyway, I'll attach an SVG file with it, and you can get it from that file.

However, if pixelation is an issue, you might also have a problem with the filter. As far as I understand, filters, or at least a lot of filters, are raster content. But you can experiment when you get the file.

brynn wrote:Oh no! Well, 0.48.3 is a development version

No - Inkscape 0.48.3 is a stable release version. Development builds use 'Inkscape 0.48+devel' as version identifier.

wiscalico wrote:

brynn wrote:Oh! Well I think there is one fabric-like filter packed with Inkscape, that maybe you could tweak. Let's see.... Ok, look at Filters menu > Texture > Silk Carpet, also check Filters menu > Non-Realistic 3D Shaders > Tartan. That 2nd one just might work for you?

Hmmm for some reason I don't have the Tartan filter (using Inkscape 0.48.3 from Ubuntu), is this added later, or is it something you would need to install manually.

The preset filter effect called 'Tartan' is in 'Filters > Overlays > Tartan' -> this is the same in all released stable versions of Inkscape 0.48 (i.e 0.48, 0.48.1, 0.48.2, 0.48.3.1), as well as in Inkscape 0.47.

See also here: Inkscape Manual » Filter Effects—Preset » Overlays

Thanks for the good suggestinos

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