Hello,

I’m new here, so this is my first question

I search a way to get a brushed steel effect on Inkscape. I find ways to do it with Illustratior (erk) and Gimp, but noting with Inkscape.
In stack.superuser, someone have the same problem but he didn’t resolve it yet.

Thank you.

Welcome aboard!


Brushed look? Seems like a generic conic gradient to me.
Sadly svg doesn't have a support for them.

There is a topic here somewhere on workarounds, like using gradient meshes -which is somewhere in the twilight zone of development builds.
I'd use linear gradients for that.

Made a few alike as public domains, so anyone can use them in the future, like:
https://openclipart.org/detail/229848/gradient-corrected

just edit the gradient as you would do on a regular linear gradient.


Edit: made another one:
metallic shine

There are a lot of Inkscape filters that try to make various metallic effects. But most don't quite hit the mark, in my experience. Although there are a lot of new filters in 0.91 which I haven't tried yet....

Lazur URH, is not necessary to have conic gradient. A linear brushed metal effect like here is enough.

Then try this one.


(Similar can be drawn with filtering too.)