truly an amazing application, and in a league of its own. apart from the usual performance and bug fixes.. i only really only have two suggestions:

Being able to group layers in folders.
And layer Masks..


i know the folder idea for grouping layers might not be hard to implement. but i was wondering if it is at all possible to have a layer mask or something close to it. i ask this because i keep running into a problem where i use blurring to create shadows, but the problem is all to often the blur ends up going past the object. i can fix this by creating a new layer above with a negative of the object. but that would mean that my background layers would have to go on top and i would have to continue to cut out the negative of the image with each layer above (which would mean that i cant move the background objects around because they are all cut up)...

i added the folder idea because often when i draw a object say a human, i use many layers like. guide layer, main layer, clothing layer, and shadowing layer.... etc... so i can quickly get to the parts i need to change... so having a group folder i could use just one mask layer on the folder so that again i dont need to apply multiple layer masks... it would also help keep the layers all neat and tidy

thanks for your time, and keep up the great work.

You can create layers within layers, which would be the same as a layer folder?

You can also create masks on a per-object (not per-layer) - the Inkscape Guide • FAQs • Inkscape Mailing List • Report a bug or request a feature
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thank you, this is basically exactly what i needed.
this will be a great help. X3