Hi,
I'm new to inkscape and also to any kind of illustration software, so forgive me for being ignorant.
I'm starting to do some sand carving as a hobbies and to make a stencil with a photo image i need to print out an object that shows clear(white) because that is what the velum will blast on my glass.
How can I do this?

Thanks
Dman

I'm not sure what you're doing but try making the fill colour white.

Thanks for the lead but what is fill color?

Dman,

could you provide a link to show us what a stencil looks like, ideally with its original photograph, so we could provide better advice?

For instance, if you just need an inverted, grey-scale version of a picture, you'd be better using a photo-editing tool, such as the Gimp. If you need to turn a photo into a vector format, then Inkscape is the right thing, and we can tell you how; but show us what you need.

I will try my best to show this so here goes:
this is the original
And this would be the negative
this is an example of the final picture or art work in need.

Inkscape's the wrong tool.

Open the image in Gimp, Select Colours->Invert, and you're done.

Or in MS Paint, Image -> Invert Colors (ctrl-I)

Slow Dog wrote:Inkscape's the wrong tool.

Open the image in Gimp, Select Colours->Invert, and you're done.

Or in MS Paint, Image -> Invert Colors (ctrl-I)

Not true with 0.46 devel :

1°to invert a bitmap do Filters/Color/Invert ;

2° to invert a drawing you can do the same, however the best in this case is to draw a white rectangle as a background, then group all objects with it and then apply the filter.

ivan