Hello,

I am new to inkscape and I am trying to rework a vector image I had designed.

At present it has a Red square background of which I want to insert a snow effect image ontop of. How do I make the snow effect image background go transparent (so only the snow flakes will be left) or make the black background match the red I already have?

I have read a fair few topics I thought were similar but none seem to work.

Thanks

If you can an example svg file, that would help us examine the issue.

Hi.

Depends on what your objects are. If the snowflake is a raster image you can

• use masking, where the masking object is a duplicant of your image
• use filtering -the built in light eraser filter should suit the job (or a custom filter; I'd use that instead of checking what the built-in filters do by try and error)
• similar option to the previous one, there are extensions that can manipulate the raster images themselves -"filter applied". Unlike filters, they change the source raster image and not just the rendering. Haven't checked if there is an extension (at extenison/raster) that would work though.
  With a raster editor you could do that more spot on.

If the snowflake is a vector object, there are probably better options.

Hello all, thanks for the fast responses.

The snowflake design is a PNG file which has a black background.

What I want to do it put the Snowflakes from this image onto a Red background (Christmas type theme) so replace the black with red.

Sadly I'm unable to upload a .svg as I need this to remain quiet until I have managed to suss it out.


I am using Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06).

Lazur I will play round using the ideas you suggested to see if I can get them to work and post my findings.

This is a copy of the PNG image I am trying to keep the snow effects from;





and this is the shade of red I am after behind the snow effects (Replacing the black);




Thanks

The built-in duochrome filter (filter/color/duochrome) can do the job.

Check this file.

Lazur, fantastic... thank you so much. this new method will be very useful thank you again