Comments on: Episode 058

By: javalive

javalive — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:34:37 +0000

Hi!
Very interesting screenCast, but it impossible to watch it properly, because the link is failed.

Thanks again

By: jaims

jaims — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:36:45 +0000

Well, then I’ll have to thank you both. Is Richard who made the screencasts with images and effects like scrapbooking and stuff? I really enjoyed them.
There’s a girl friend of my wife that has twins aged 2 or 3, and prepared a couple of pictures of their daughters with this wonderful scrapbooking effect. She really like them!

All the credit yo you guys

Regards

By: heathenx

heathenx — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:55:13 +0000

Thank-you jaims. I cannot take all the credit though. Without Richard none of this would exist.

By: jaims

jaims — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:23:24 +0000

Hi HeathenX

I’ve been following several of the screencasts, all I can say is that I really like them.
I’d also like to thank you for making them, Inkscape is such a nice tool and your screencasts are a nice way to get into stuff.

I’d also like to say that I’ve found your site from meetthegimp.org, and I think that you and Rolf make a fantastic tamdem, I think you are great.

Keep the good work

By: heathenx

heathenx — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:31:19 +0000

Got it! Thanks for the link.

By: Jaws

Jaws — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:16:39 +0000

HeathenX said:
“Are all of those effects rolled up into that one svg file?”

Indeed they are rolled into one .svg file. Got ‘em.

Thanks Rikaix

By: Rikaix

Rikaix — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:53:33 +0000

http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/examples/inkscape_filters.svg?revision=18370&view=markup click download and, with firefox –> save as –> put some ” between and .svg(sorry for my bad english don’t know how to translate ” ), anyway, write : “inkscape_filters.svg” (don’t forget the “) and you got the magic file … I hope it was clear, if someone understand that, translate in good english …

By: heathenx

heathenx — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:11:01 +0000

Ah. I have been to the svn repo but I’m not sure which dir that you are talking about. I see inkscape_filters.svg. Are all of those effects rolled up into that one svg file?

If there are indeed 24 effects in that file then I would hope that someone would post that to openclipart.org so that the community could easily get to it.

By: Rikaix

Rikaix — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:38:53 +0000

thanks to you heatenx for all these cool screencasts, tips , tricks and discoveries, filter effects was really what i am waiting with Inkscape.

PS : Good surprise in the share/example svn repository (inkscape_filters.svg)(drop shadow, snow, leopard fur, jelly bean, metallic, jigsaw piece, cutout, frost, fire , ink bleed etc, etc …. 24 great effects, and … wow ! must be mathematician to understand how to reproduce and understand all these effects) just one thing to say : wow … (ouch for my head ;o) )

By: heathenx

heathenx — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:01:11 +0000

Brilliant!

By: Alpha13

Alpha13 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:00:22 +0000

UPDATE: If you have set up an account @ openclipart.org you can import fe-emboss.svg and fe-drop shadow.svg . Just search the database for inkscape_filter_effect, and they both show up.

Alpha13

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:19:42 +0000

Wow heathenx - that’s sweet.. and .. umm … sweet.

Now do something useful and make one with nougat.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:47:32 +0000

Thanks for posting your effects Alpha13.

I was noodling with the emboss style effect. Chocolate anyone?

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:17:15 +0000

@Alpha13. Good tip. Even a whole bunch with turbulence effects. Thanks.

By: Alpha13

Alpha13 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:27:27 +0000

OK,

I have made a little discovery while reading fedev.blogspot.com. If you look in /usr/share/inkscape/examples, there are some example images WITH preconfigured filters. K00l !

Alpha13

By: Alpha13

Alpha13 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:00:57 +0000

That is weird. I think The way the site is set up you are supposed to rip the images from your browser. I guess its not really set up for filter effects. By the way firefox will not render the effects properly, but they are there. I was hoping when I uploaded them that they would show up in the built in Imkscape “import from open clip art” menu item. Perhaps eventually they will show up when they update their database.

Alpha13

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:52:15 +0000

@Alpha13. Good initiative. I forgot about Openclipart but indeed, that seems the logical repository for Inkscape filters.

The download was a bit peculiar. When you right click and use “Save Link As”, Firefox adds default the extension html to the number of the file (e.g. 16358). You have to change that extension into svg manually. If you use “Copy Link Location” and then use Wget, it works better because it follows the redirect of that number and then saves the file with the proper name (dhartman_fe-drop_shadow.svg). Weird.

By: Alpha13

Alpha13 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:48:13 +0000

That emboss filter looks real good on text. I uploaded the drop shadow filter to openclipart.org (fe-drop_shadow.svg) I will upload the emboss also. I had to tweak the emboss a little. It seems to apply diferently depending on the size of the object….or it could be my imagination., dunno.

Alpha13

UPDATE: They are both uploaded there now. fe-emboss.svg and fe-drop_shadow.svg

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:32:20 +0000

As always I learned something new about Inkscape watching your screencast. Although I think (er.. know) I’ll have to do some of that recommended reading to come to grips with Filters. The concept is simple, but when you joined up the effects with the different objects using those dragged arrows I felt like I was back in Calculus class.. nothing made sense to me.

That said, for the general user, I think building a public user repository of effect filters would be great. No sense reinventing the wheel each time. And while something specialized like the fire effect wouldn’t likely be of use to me, things like the embossed highlighting and modifiable drop shadows that are cloned to objects would be completely useful to lots of people like me.

Maybe you could make reflected web 2.0 style text out of filters.. thus making the bulk of my inkscape work obsolete!!

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:40:47 +0000

@Mark W

Not that I know of. When I create a filter I just save it out as “filter_filterdescription.svg” to a filters directory that I created. Then all I have to do is drag and drop that svg into Inkscape and the filter is ready for use. That method works very well so far.