How do I maintain blur effects when using path manipulation (path > difference, etc).
When I use Path > Difference (or even Object > Set Clip) it removes the blur effect from my shapes.
For example: I have a small square on top of a large square. The small square has a blur effect applied (through the Fill and Stroke Pane). When I select them both and apply Path > Difference, it correctly applies the difference but the resulting shape has sharp clean edges where the soft blurred small square used to be. How can I apply path manipulation but maintain the blur effect?
Perfect... I was able to take a combination of clips and masks to create an inverse shape of what I needed to affect and by using masking was able to maintain the blur. Thank you very much!
(The final effect was essentially blurring the top and bottom of an image to merge nicely with the things around it)
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How do I maintain blur effects when using path manipulation (path > difference, etc).
When I use Path > Difference (or even Object > Set Clip) it removes the blur effect from my shapes.
For example: I have a small square on top of a large square. The small square has a blur effect applied (through the Fill and Stroke Pane). When I select them both and apply Path > Difference, it correctly applies the difference but the resulting shape has sharp clean edges where the soft blurred small square used to be. How can I apply path manipulation but maintain the blur effect?
Take a look at Masking rather than Clipping. They work pretty similarly but you can have blurs with a mask.
https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/clipping-and-masking.html
Perfect...
I was able to take a combination of clips and masks to create an inverse shape of what I needed to affect and by using masking was able to maintain the blur. Thank you very much!
(The final effect was essentially blurring the top and bottom of an image to merge nicely with the things around it)
That's how we do the tilt-shift blur effect in Inkscape.