@Espermaschine ... and @Lazur URH --- thanks for showing me how to do that, that's quicker and smarter and more useful than my method, and it has an advantage too of staying inside inkscape.. I didn't know you could just convert to a bitmap so easily and quickly.. I learn something new every day... ...

I am totally new to this forum, so this is my first post... to turn a roughen filter effect to a path, if the filter is suitable to be described by a path, like a path with a roughen filter applied, black fill and no outline, select your filtered path in inkscape, export it to an png image using exp...