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 looks in inkscape but aparently this is a feature that I missed. I'm looking forward to learning how it's done though as it will radicly change the way I draw with Inkscape.

I'm guessing that this is done with some sort of mask.

Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

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

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 the blurring going past the skin area (masked).

It's probably clipped.

http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/05/24 ... -tutorial/

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