Hello all. i have an interesting delima and do not know entirely which way to go. I have a square page, half is black and half is white. there is a large flourish that starts at the bootom left corner and goes threw the entire page. the section that is in the black i want to be white and the section in the white i want to be black, but when i select the object to change colors, the whole thing changes color. how do i select just the protion i want to change color? IE, half of the flourish?

thanks

The short answer for beginners is that an object can only have one fill color. So if you want your object to have two colors you will have to cut it in two. This is easiest and most dependable.
The longer answer is that you can do this with a filter (and layers, but it really is the same underneath it all) if you place objects carefully and with a carefully constructed gradient as well.

ok cool. i have been trying to cut the flourish but its difficult. i copied the flourish and pasted it outside of my workspace, then tried drawing a sqaure around the portion i wanted to delete and thats where i get lost. but i did not know you could cut objects. haha. ill see if i can google that. thanks

This is the cleanest way I know of doing this -click on the image and download the svg:

The flourish is used as a clipping mask on the previously drawn group of fills.

ok i figured it out using this tutorial. i was able to crop the copied flourish. however, my browser just missed up and i swear you posted a image with a description

http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/ ... -inkscape/

Lazur URH wrote:This is the cleanest way I know of doing this -click on the image and download the svg:

The flourish is used as a clipping mask on the previously drawn group of fills.

dropbox is having an issue with teh image. it is treating it as a jpg so inkscape fails to open it.

what is this technique called so i can google it? thanks for the awesome ptcture though. thats exactly what im trying to do.

By clicking on the image it brings the browser straight to the original
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where if you click on it with the right mouse button, you can save it as .svg.
That can be opened in inkscape.

That was done exactly with the same tool you find that tutorial about.
Just open the svg in inkscape and see what it is made of.

Lazur URH wrote:By clicking on the image it brings the browser straight to the original

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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jaxp7egz2q8dk2n/hlp57.svg

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where if you click on it with the right mouse button, you can save it as .svg.
That can be opened in inkscape.

That was done exactly with the same tool you find that tutorial about.
Just open the svg in inkscape and see what it is made of.

lol, awesome. gonna try it out. thats what i wanted to do was see the options in inkscape. ill try it again.

thanks

ok i opened it and im lookin to see how you cut the flourish object in two. i assume you used the sqaure shape or some shape to color what you wanted?

There is an indicator line at the bottom of the screen.
If you select all the objects, it will tell you there are two groups, which are both clipped.
When each selected, you can release the clipping mask,
to see what it was clipped with and what it looked originally as a group.
Furthermore you can ungroup those objects as well, to see the original objects.

Is there something I'm missing?