I use Inkscape only 2 year, but usually I working in Photoshop. And this is some idea from it, what looks not too hard to add (imho):
1. Why transparent always "additional" blend mode? Can I make "Difference" "Exclusion" or "Color Dodge" objects?
2. Stroke tool with "Gradient Shape Burst" style options would be great!
3. Free Transform is a cool tool! Can Inkscape do something like this?
4. Can Inkcape do path, with different width on line begin, middle and line end?
5. Additional type of gradient (like radial, diamond etc.) are nice ability. Isn't it?


PS: Great thanks for all you works! Inkscape are best free vector tool of ever!!

PSS: Sorry for my English, this is not my first language.

1. Inkscape has other blend modes, but not as many as Photoshop. It's got Darken, Lighten, Multiply, Screen, and Normal (which is the default, what you called Addition). You can apply them to entire layers through the Layer dialog (Ctrl+Shift+L), or to individual objects using a Filter Effect. Use the Blend filter, and choose the mode you want, make the second input "Background Image".

2. Do you mean having a gradient that follows the stroke? Unfortunately, Inkscape stays strictly within the SVG spec, which doesn't include gradients like that. It can be faked in some ways, but it's tedious.

3. I don't know what the Free Transform tool does.

4. The SVG spec doesn't include stroke widths that vary over the path. But the Pencil and Pen tools have an option to fake it now where you can use a shape as the stroke. Look for the "Shape" option on the toolbar after you choose one of those tools.

5. I believe the SVG spec only defines linear and radial gradients, so that's all Inkscape provides. Weird shape gradients can be faked, but it's kind of tedious. At present, you need to make two objects and use the Interpolate extension to get mid-point steps, and then blur the intervening steps. This is one of the most commonly asked for features of Inkscape, so maybe someone will figure out an easier way to fake it, or the SVG committee will add it to the spec. One can dream.

Hi,

I am looking for the photoshop/gimp blend mode /namely - difference/ as well.

I want to do a simple thing - the background is black, second layer is a text -white color. The third layer - white rectangle. I put the rectangle over half of the text. Usually what I do is to set the third layer's blend mode to difference hence making the text appear black in the white rectangle and leaving the rest of the text remains white.

Im not able to figure this simple thing out in inkscape. Please help me with this.

thanks