Inkscape Lesson 16 - Using Filters

[@hrithikapanwar5]

this is by far the best Inkscape tutorial one will ever find on youtube!

[@natedj30]

I love that you include your mistakes. Makes me feel much better about myself.

[@Mariam-Mina]

Can’t thank you enough for all of these videos, you are great!!! And you are explaining everything perfectly 👌 I’m watching them in order and really enjoying the Inkscape. Thanks again

[@GBobFree206]

I'm 5 years late on your video but just now learning Inkscape as I'm learning SVG and Inkscape looks like a great way to learn how to create and work with SVG files. Thanks for your great videos.

[@joshuanun8192]

Thank you! TJ. I never liked inkscape before but I start to like it. Your tutorials are awesome!

[@slacknhash]

Funnily enough, up to now I've always avoided using filters on Inkscape. I thought (wrongly, as it transpired) that they just turned objects into rasters, that I'd lose all information about them and be unable to make any further changes without ending up with more of a mess. A bit like filters in GIMP or Photoshop, you know? Think carefully before applying them, because after that there's no coming back without undoing that step and any one might have made since... glad to see I was wrong on that point! Came across your series while looking for tutorial series, figured I'd give them a go just to see what rudiments I still needed to know, even after a few years. This lesson in particular has been a bit of an eye-opener, so thanks for that! Definitely going to reconsider my position on filters in this program.

[@BELINDASPIRIT]

OMG...thank you so much for this video!!! I am thoroughly enjoying going through this series and the ideas are endless!!

[@darrellpidgeon6440]

Hahaha. Great tutorial for when to not hit the minus key. Well, I know I'm going to be spending a lot of time exploring the Filters! I love the way you shed light on this software. Thanks!

[@Thevegajays]

Thanks again for your tutorials! They have all been so helpful :)

[@hichsonmcthebe4844]

Great videos. I am totally new to design. As Accountant I also now augment my services. Thank you.

[@creatinganewlife1296]

Heartly Thank you so much for all Inkscape video.

[@flatlander523]

I am learning so much from you. Thank you for the lessons. Your style is awesome 👌

[@danielorosz8493]

"It's gonna be kind of cool for....hmmm...something" LoL Thanks for this tutorials man !

[@oscartodkee1801]

i love this guy!

[@lavalei839]

You’re tutorials helped me a lot! Good job 👍

[@kirkgonzalez353]

I love your Vids. Best Training ever. One of the filters I discovered I liked was taking sans-serif text, large font (100), and Bevels > Stained Glass. Makes the text look like it's come out of a label maker.

[@davivify]

One thing I found quite useful is the drop shadow filter. I miss Xara's shadow tool, but the next best thing is the drop shadow filter, which I use alot, especially to bring out text.

[@Sb129]

I didn't know so much could be done in Inkscape, nice.

[@aykutyldz1538]

thank you very much for this awesome tutorial. the filters that you covered are really cool 😉

[@mvmbapple]

Million thanks for sharing all of these to us for free. Can you also show us how to apply these techniques by creating some projects. God bless

[@TJFREE]

You're welcome. Yes, I play to add to these playlists with applied techniques and workflows for start to finish projects.

[@ricosuavious3033]

So I'm learning and have been on a learning binge going through your videos when I have the chance to. My interest in this is to be able to create decals that I will be uploading to grand turismo dot com to use in the in game livery editor on Grand Turismo Sport. Will these filters affect the ability to vectorize the final product to minimize the file to 15kb(the max size allowed for decal uploads) I'm hoping you'll be showing that lesson on the later vids. I very much enjoy and appreciate your time and effort training us all! Thank you!

[@fathimahithayathullah220]

Thanks a lot. Your videos are really useful.

[@wesleytillman9774]

Thanks loads. This was certainly interesting.

[@TJFREE]

You're welcome, Wesley.

[@NaveenKumar-ce9vq]

its super cool using these filters.......thanks for the video...

[@ganeshreddy4289]

Superb .. very very thanks to tj free ...u helped me alot. ❤️

[@penisjano2256]

Thank you TJ, these mean world for us

[@TJFREE]

You're very welcome!

[@juliegpickwick6598]

Hi The demonstrations are great but is there a downloadable book we can use as well please. So we know where to look and may be play the correct video. Thanks

[@boerbol9422]

Amazing video!!

[@StefanoON]

Great content, loved it!

[@lauracabrera745]

Hi! Very interesting tutorials Thank you so much! I have a question regarding the use of filters though. If I duplicate a filtered object and move it to other part of the canvas it changes its form/shape. If I move it back it turns into the initial shape again. Any idea why this is?

[@egonpauli1744]

I kind of had the same issue. Here's the thing: Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V => same shape; Ctrl D, move => same shape; BUT: Ctrl+ D, Ctrl + V => doesn't work, i.e. it pastes the object previously copied by Ctrl + C (it doesn't change shape, it just gives you the previously copied one). So you probably messed the two commands like me and used Ctrl + D, Ctrl + V which are two separate actions.

[@atema5320]

@@egonpauli1744 I'm quite confused so what exactly do you do to stop the object from changing after you have moved it?

[@faishal1638]

I APPRECIATE UR WORK TJ. UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS NO WAY I CAN EXPRESS HOW I FEEL INSIDE. HOPE U CAN MAKE SAME TUTORIALS FOR GIMP SOON

[@evefavorse5939]

Very cool!

[@suryakant5454]

thanks for the amazing tutorial.....

[@mxlinuxpl]

Thanks, great lesson.

[@cismifikriyat3940]

thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@toritriffitt2793]

Illustrator has a handy 'EXPAND' to merge the stroke and fill on a font to make that font thicker. Great for laser cutting script text for say cake toppers so they don't break after laser cutting. I can't seem to find anything that melt the stock to the fill... can you tell me if there is please.

[@TJFREE]

Hi Tori. I need to get more experience with laser cutting, but I think people sometimes use the View > Display Mode > Outline view in Inkscape to see only where the laser will cut. Stroke thickness can be deceiving in the default view. I'd love to make some videos specifically on Inkscape and laser cutting, but need to learn it myself first!

[@toritriffitt2793]

@@TJFREE Thank you TJ, to make it easy for you here is a video of the final steps we need to do (Illustrator) to finish off a cake topper for the laser cutter. I'm a laser cutting teacher and have classes in my Azara Collection studio. My students are new to laser cutting and any software like Illustrator or Coral Draw is expensive so INKSCAPE is prefered as at this stage they choose not to pay for a subscription they may not use. See my Instagram page Azara_Collection and FB, and web azaracollection.com.au for examples of my products in my shops (examples for my students). Love to teach you also but I'm in Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia. Videos make a great start. Can you repeat this project in INKSCAPE I have completed in Illustrator? Great videos TJ, going through them all now. Thank you for supplying them. Link... kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6SpZJShn5yBfLs

[@TJFREE]

That's great to hear. I wish more teachers would expose their students to free software. I know some schools receive free licenses or 'student versions' of proprietary software. I think teaching students propriety software exclusively does them a huge disservice. I'll check out the the links you provided and see what i can do!

[@TJFREE]

Ok, I watched your video (great job by the way :) and I was able to recreate the process in Inkscape by selecting the path, and going to Path > Stroke to Path and then with it still selected, going to Path > Break Apart. This should give the same end result as the Pathfinder > Union function in Illustrator, but will result in 2 paths, the inner one can just be deleted. I think there's an even simpler way too, I'll see if I can make a video on it soon.

[@toritriffitt2793]

@@TJFREE Thank you TJ for your reply and instructions and sorry for the slow reply, busy moving into a new shop and creative studio for my laser classes to continue in air-conditioning! I will test out those instructions, thank you for your valued help. Tori

[@sahanazlaskar3795]

How did you applied gradient here 8:54

[@saadmegahed2443]

Cool .. Do u think Inkscape will be helpful to do some science Art.

[@TJFREE]

Yes!

[@cfalguiere]

You might also want to look at Processing that has been created for that purpose. Inkscape is great as vsg editor, however for science art you may have to deal with 3D models, particle generators or animate scenes where the process is break into steps. You would build the svg shapes in Inkscape and do more programmatic things in Processing.

[@creatinganewlife1296]

Wow filter is really interesting.

[@akadotsky]

What if we are doing long project and it get crashed by the time so how we are gonna retrieve that file again ??

[@z1d2g3c4]

smh

[@parimaldgy8152]

Its really cool!!!!

[@inonil309]

Thanking You...

[@404RD]

I have a problem: When i make a object it's default opacity equals to zero which does so i can't see were my object is when i'm makeing them. Btw these videos are really helpfull :)

[@andymouse]

Does a layer have levels please ?

[@ceekayeee]

How do you get the filters to work? Because none of the filters is doing anything in my Inkscape (on any of the images I just created in Inkscape). Because of this problem, I just installed the newest version of Inkscape, and still nothing...

[@IbrahimAli-sx5lq]

Did you make the selection first before applying the filter?

[@ceekayeee]

@@IbrahimAli-sx5lq Thanks for replying. It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, at the time of my comment I was trying to apply a filter to the whole image, and later I indeed discovered that you can only apply filters to subjects within the image. I think I ended up applying an extension instead (Extensions/Color/Custom, in that case). That was not ideal, but the least inconvenient choice for that specific problem.

[@IbrahimAli-sx5lq]

@@ceekayeee Cool

[@DarianMiller]

In this video you mentioned another video for creating buttons - do you have a link for that?

[@TJFREE]

Hi Darian. I never did make that button tutorial video, but I just added it too the list. I think i'll have it made this next week. Thanks for the reminder!

[@DarianMiller]

@@TJFREE Thanks! I like your videos on Inkscape!

[@Thevegajays]

Help needed again please. So I'm trying to save an image I made with filter but when I save it as a png so I can sent it to my phone it doesnt save the filters I used. Is there a way I can save it as a picture file and keep the filter effects?

[@TJFREE]

I'm not sure why its being exported without the filter. Is it possible the object with the filter applied is larger than the selection? To check this, choose 'page' instead of 'selection' on the export tab. Also, as a primitive workaround, you could try the 'print screen' button and then just paste the image in gimp and crop to size...

[@Thevegajays]

@@TJFREE thank you for your answer! ah i was just "saving as" not exporting. Sorry lol

[@o4wishes]

Anybody else finds the Filtersmenue in Inkscape a little bit unhandy? I really love Inkscape but barely touch the FiltersMenue cause I find it's interface so horrible.

[@nemnoton]

Filters doesn't work for me, terrible quality, it's pixelated and blurry. Is there some configuration needed , maybe graphics card related(?)

[@21Liberdade]

I think I'm having another case of "I'm blind, where are those options?" because my under "Effect Parameters" in the Filter Editor the only thing show is Standard Deviation, and I've expanded that particular window to the max.

[@mayankshigaonker7725]

I don't know exactly but I think that maybe while installing inkscape you must have taken the minimum installation option so inkscape might have not installed the filters.

[@hbgwaay]

Hello TJ! I really appriciate what you are doing! You are providing us with an incredible knowledge! God bless you! I was wondering if you could create a tutorial series like this for GIMP..

[@TJFREE]

Hi Hassani. Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I really should make a tutorial series on Gimp, hopefully soon!

[@afrosymphony8207]

i am gonna abuse the shit outta that bump thingy lool thanksbro

[@cherten1]

TJ sorry to bother you but I have wasted a whole day searching for an answer to this to no avail. Everything I download that should be an Svg file, Google Chrome is changing the file extension to Chrome HTML Document. I find some new Icons for Inkscape and downloaded of course it came as a Chrome file not an Svg file and the properties show it is Chrome HTML Document. How can a folder full of Icons be a Document? Now I am not Glenda the Good Witch of the East on a Computer but I am not the Scarecrow either. Any Ideas?? Thanks in advance, I know this doesn't pertain to you class.

[@TJFREE]

This is a common problem, not only with svg files, but with all file types. Some websites are more difficult to download files that others. I usually right click and go to 'save link as' to try to download the actual file. Here is a test svg you can try to download, see if it works: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#/media/File:SVG_logo.svg

[@cherten1]

@@TJFREE Thanks if this doesn't work. I am uninstalling google chrome and using Firefox. Setup the interface and I am actually impressed. Sick of Googles empowerment. Also have started using GOGODUCK search and I like it. Thanks again

[@samarthmistry3625]

Thanks man. . . . .You American?

[@katesill1987]

🍁🍂🌻🍇🐧🐦

[@michailb2563]

Control + a = Select everything

[@twoputt5]

Appreciate the effort but didn't explain how to make filters permanent or save modified image. Could have edited out crashes

[@rajputboy4609]

anyone from india need some help i have to complete some task on it

[@Ovalrapture]

Thanks for the tutorials. However, you might want to upgrade your computer. Your processor response time is pretty bad.

[@Delos5]

These filters are very 90’s, haha.