Hello,

I have drawn an image in Inkscape, but cannot remember how i managed to create it.
The cross has two black lines running through it where the two rectangle has overlapped. I have tried to recreate the image but as i have said i cant remember how i managed to get this purple lightening effect.
Please could someone help me.

Hhmm...I don't see the lines. I don't know what filter you might have used, but I sure don't see the lines

Thanks for your reply. There are two faint black lines where the two rectangles meet to form the cross. If you follow the top left line down you will see it, but you have to zoom in.
It will be printed on a t-shirt do I need to remove the lines as apparently they will show up.
If this is not possible does anyone know how I managed to create the colour effect and where I can find it again on inkscape?
Many thanks

Didn't you save the original SVG file? That doesn't look like anything I've seen that Inkscape can do....at least it doesn't look familiar to me. Maybe you used some kind of effect from another program?

If you had the original SVG file, you could easily see which filter you used. In that case, I would suggest removing it for a moment. The select both rectangles, and then do Path menu > Union. That will get rid of anything that might cause a line. Then reapply the filter.

If you don't have the original SVG, you might be able to blur out the line using a raster editor (such as The GIMP). I'm not very good with raster graphics, but someone else here might be able to tell you which tool to use.

It kind of looks like someone used Gimp for one effect and maybe specular lighting for another.
Sometimes, if it was all done somehow in Inkscape, if you open up the filter box, it will show all the filters that have been applied.
Like Brynn said, if you can put the actual SVG up, maybe we could help you to re-create it.
Definitely make the cross, then go into the node tool and select both rectangles, then do a 'union', that will remove any lines on the cross, you might have to remove a few extra nodes where they meet to get the design perfectly straight.
I do use several of the raster filters, but there are so many variations that we'd really have to guess at what you used unless we can see the original.