Inkscape Is About To Revolutionize The Shape Builder | v1.4 Beta Update

[@LogosByNick]

**CORRECTION** It turns out there aren't multiple copies of the image, it's just linked copies of the original image, meaning it shouldn't affect performance as much.

[@Brickerbrack]

Ah, so more like an XREF in CAD? Good to know...

[@jimbox31]

phew! close call😅 I’m already stressed when a svg hits 1MB 😆

[@infinitivez]

Almost wish there was an option to create multiple images, so the clip position would remain static. I'm assuming if you move the letters around, it'll adjust to a different position on the background.

[@XJRULO]

OK, this is important, because having as much jpg, png or bmp images as poligons isn't good at all!!! I wil test this feature in order to understand the impact on performance and file size!!! Thnks Nick!!!

[@infinitivez]

@@XJRULO Well, Nick's correction says it doesn't, they're only links to the image data inside the file, which makes sense. I want to try this out to see if I can easily detach from the original without rasterizing the letters individually, so they can keep the background positioning. But I have a feeling it won't be possible. (which is fine, it's just an added consideration)

[@JohnColgan.]

It just gets better and better

[@shahadeltayeb9693]

Inkscape is amazing all what it needs now is the CMYK support

[@obkf-too]

Support the developer working on the colors development including CMYK.

[@ronaldweasly561]

And eps format

[@doctormo]

The same developer who made this feature is working on CMYK (he, is me, 😉) please consider helping out with the project. Many hands make light work.

[@shahadeltayeb9693]

​​@@doctormoWe really appreciate all the time and effort you are putting into this. Thank you for your hard work. I'm from Sudan and there is a conflict in my country right now. I pretty much leave my own house with only my laptop in hand and I can say that inkscape has become the source of my income in these hard days, so I can't be grateful enough.

[@jenssuter9835]

​@@doctormo how and where can we help specifically with that? I don't think I have the skills to help, but I'm pretty sure there are enough people interested in that feature to find a few helpers

[@Atariusz_]

MY GOD, inkscape is this close to becoming my go to. Im amazed

[@jinelyscosme7936]

The fact that you can open Affinity files it's a winner for me!! I work with both softwares and I love them both

[@dandawson1982]

CMYK support would be amazing for this app.

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

They are working hard to implement it.

[@jimbox31]

some day….

[@nittani.]

Or like never

[@obkf-too]

Support the developer working on the colors development including CMYK.

[@doctormo]

@@CTRL_SMarcos The mystical *they* are not working hard on it. It's me, I'm working hard on it 😉. you should use my name because users get confused and think Inkscape work is happening magically instead. I do appreciate all your help SMarcos, much love.

[@godnyx117]

Inkscape is awesome! Can't wait for Vulkan rendering!

[@ixxnae]

Nice! I already have plenty of use for the shape builder improvement, and it will save a lot of time. Thanks for the info, Nick. Take care.

[@isaaclee7941]

what type of projects do you achieve with this tool? I want to use it but im a newbie to graphic design lol

[@NikMartyn]

Thanks Nick. Much appreciated my friend.🙏

[@GraphicDesignStudio]

Yes. We are wating for it. Thanks for Consider about Shape Builder tool.

[@marinrezaie]

Tanks to you and Inkscape

[@bluedream7458]

Great video, very informative channel!!

[@psylentrage]

WOW! All I can say. Thank you for the video

[@jasonbartlett1357]

Great feature to highlight. I immediately had that question about having the HW/memory issue and you immediately answered it. I would like to know I'd you can the apply the mask once you are happy with it.

[@softwarelivre2389]

Nick is likely to be mistaken. I doubt Martin would forget to just set the images to be linked to a single instance. It most likely won't have any noticeable impact on file size or performance. There is no reason to duplicate the image.

[@arquivosbackup-e1f]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[@TheBochiz]

Just amazing cant wait... thanks

[@Serifinity]

Really like that, thanks for sharing 👍

[@ilaseredathing]

This is very similar to the behavior of xTool's XCS clip masking that they released last year (XCS is their laser device software). Very excited to see this come to Inkscape as it is one of the best clip masking functions I've seen.

[@MicheleBedendo]

This workflow was already in Macromedia Flash in the early 2000s. I always thought it was a faster way of creating shapes. Really glad that Inkscape integrated it.

[@doctormo]

It was created, it wasn't integrated as we don't have access to Macromedia Flash code. Though if you're happy, I'm happy. 👍

[@blackdotkiller1]

Great news 👍

[@aliencreation8744]

nice work inkscape

[@mtm7031]

thank you so much

[@onepercentile]

I really like the easy approach to shape clipping, but each path getting an individual image clip doesn't sound conservative on resources. Would't setting a clip on all the text and image be the better way until then?

[@softwarelivre2389]

2:27 doesn't it just load the image once and links it to each clip? Pretty sure they'd not forget to optimize that.

[@Volt-Eye.]

Hmmm Nice Catch

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Great news. Thanks for sharing.

[@expressocean9874]

Thanks for posting this! I have noticed when using the Shape Builder tool over a raster image with two shapes over the image, that once the tool is selected and I click on one of the shapes, the second shape just disappears. The Shape Builder tool is set to Add Section, and the raster image and the two shapes were selected before using the Shape Builder tool. So maybe they will fix that in the next update.

[@AdityaMehendale]

Couldn't you merge all the letters into one object, then apply the clipping? PS - with the new system, if you drag-move one letter, does the background (of that letter) move too?

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Yes, it would move, after all it is a clip.

[@LogosByNick]

Yes, but it would only function as a single object. This breaks it up into separate objects.

[@doctormo]

If you move the *nodes* of the clipping path, it will not move the background. So you can choose to move or not move whichever way you feel is useful.

[@michaelsalais7393]

Great vid. Brings up a question. What does the layers palette look like during that operation? That would bring out the reason for system load.

[@jasonvaughn1658]

Whoa!🤯 Niiiiiiiiice 👊

[@CelticOneDesign]

Fracture in 1.4 will also work on bitmap images. Undocumented :)

[@greasyfingergarage]

Holy hell. This is pretty epic.

[@Just_name29]

I'm curious whether in the latest update Inkscape will be able to open EPS files from Illustrator and save EPS files that can be read in Illustrator, I hope that can happen in the future because that's one of the features that I really need

[@inonil309]

❤❤ Thank you dear teacher... ❤❤ Missing that Nostalgic into music

[@Roboto-chan_1402]

Hi Nick, interesting concept. Thank you for introducing this to us. However, does this bring any advantage over Affinity’s ability of clipping the BG image into either compound-Boolean-added shapes/ fonts? Or are there other application examples for this new feature?

[@graphguy]

amazingly good news!

[@99loops]

How did you add the icons/menu items to the right hand side of the screen? Folder/save/import/export, etc.

[@LogosByNick]

Go to the View menu and enable the Wide Screen option

[@davenjogu7890]

More funding. The developers are doing a nexcellent job.

[@JerryDechant]

is each one of those forms/letters a new layer?

[@LucarnAnderson]

yo this is cool!

[@AllthingsJ2101]

How do you get your menu bars transparent??

[@AlKiefah]

Nice

[@NatureZone101]

Just found your channel by trying to research Inkscape and hopefully you can help. I have been using CorelDraw for a long time (really a beginner though), but now my older version won't open - maybe the update to Win11 made it not work. Will Inkscape open my CDR files and let me edit them AND then save them back to a general Vector file that doesn't need Corel? Thanks!

[@infinitivez]

So what happens if you then move one of the letters? Does the clip position stay static or does slide relative to where you place the letter on the canvas?

[@doctormo]

If you move the object, the image moves, if you move the clipping path (using the node editor tool) the background stays still.

[@infinitivez]

@@doctormo Ty for that. I figured as much considering how much more work it would take to make them static captures when they're just clip masked. Rasterizing it or creating a grouped layer, only takes an extra step anyhow, if I need it.

[@bigdaddy1363]

Awesome

[@cutiek-k5q]

Did u use inkscape while starting your freelancing

[@obkf-too]

If someone has a hardware limitation do Edit>Create Bitmap Copy [Alt+B], which will create a raster image for any object in the current dimentions.

[@doctormo]

I also added a crop image to clipping mask, which you can see in the right click. Though it re-codes the raster as a png, and removes any color information.

[@MrHyde911]

I hope they improved the UI for low rez displays

[@lummsmusik3219]

Sorry but I think this kind of shape creation out of an image, “Xara” back in the 90s was able to do this. Or do I remember wrong?

[@dariviera8]

Thanks, bro.

[@Kaycii.Austine]

Very soon. Just very soon, Adobe and their Illustrator will be a second or afterthought application.

[@mohammed_alzhaf]

I wanaa do a photoshop without photoshop . Do u have a app ?

[@TommyNewsboycap]

Gimp

[@LogosByNick]

GIMP + Photopea + Affinity Photo

[@helliandrosoutohenrique8931]

Gostei muito desse recurso

[@Jj82op]

Seems like a nice feature. Any reason why the like/dislike ratio is almost 50/50 lol?

[@nzlemming]

Well, wow.

[@ikbrawler5]

can't we just do this by grouping all objects and then clipping them to the image? so that it's only 1 image

[@kairu_b]

Noice😊

[@lqlarry]

👍

[@andersonocardoso2524]

Yet again, the most important feature (for me) is not there in Inkscape, which is the auto-updater, that would be a great feature.

[@doctormo]

We need windows developers, if you know any, get them in touch. Must bring own money and/or time. Auto updating is available to Linux users, so this has not been a problem for most funders unfortunately. But it is an issue int he bug tracker, so we know it exists.

[@GubbiGabber]

Is this better han gimp?

[@LogosByNick]

GIMP is a different type of tool. It's for image editing. Inkscape is for vector design.

[@janmeloman]

Actually there is such feature in Illustrator for quite a while, so it is not true no other software have it. It's called compound shapes.

[@LogosByNick]

That's incorrect. Compound Paths only work on vector paths, not images. And Illustrator's Shape Builder doesn't work with images either.

[@janmeloman]

@@LogosByNick Are you sure? I am currently using Illustrator 28.6 and I am able to use compound path as clipping mask for bitmap image placed in the file.

[@janmeloman]

@@LogosByNick My bad, I mean compund shapes, not compund paths - these are diffrent things. And compound shapes are capable of working as I described.

[@UnknownGuest220]

Inkscape won't let me save a project at all what's the point

[@doctormo]

Please report the issue, it must be fixed.

[@yannsalmon2988]

So… masking raster images with vector shapes. I fail to see the revolution as I’ve been using this feature for 25 years now on various image editing softwares, not only Photoshop or Illustrator. The surprise for me is that Inkscape was not doing it until now. Explain to me why this is unprecedented because as far as the demonstration goes, this is definitely not new and I might add more complicated than how other softwares have been doing it for decades.

[@LogosByNick]

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. If you were to do this with clipping masks you would have to duplicate 10 copies of the image (one for each letter) and then clip each one individually. This feature produces that same result with one function. Illustrator's Shape Builder doesn't work with images and Photoshop doesn't even have a Shape Builder, so I think you're missing the point.

[@yannsalmon2988]

@@LogosByNick OK, I understand. If you want to make individual masked images shapes, I admit that is convenient. Still, calling it a revolutionary feature seems a bit exaggerated in my opinion.