Thanks for all the help! I understand paths much better now

Hmmm...I'm not sure what I was doing wrong before, but now it works. Lol. It's kind of strange. Initially I noticed that the program was giving me an error message on the bottom. It said that both objects I was selecting weren't path objects. To try and solve that problem I would click the caligraph...

I'm trying to give my images a grunge and smashed look to them. Odd thing is when I try to change the path to difference, it doesn't do anything. It's really strange. I looked on the main site FAQ section to see if this has been an issue in the past and I couldn't find much on it.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help! much appreciated

With the graphic I have now, does anyone have any ideas as to what I can add to it to spice it up a little? I've thought about gradients and I'm playing around with those right now, but are there any specific things anyone can think of?

aho: thanks for the info btw! much appreciated.

I forgot to try the pencil tool and I've been using that and playing around with the nodes to get a smoother look. Here's a url to my pencil version of the logo: http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9279/pawprintgi4.png So I have to ask...I feel it's a big step forward, but I kind of feel that I can d...

I've been playing with InkScape for about a month and I just wanted to say that it's a really great program! Getting on to business. Right now I'm trying to develop a logo for my business. I've drawn on paint, to get a feel for it, and now I want to draw my logo on InkScape. I've been having some pr...