You can also crop vector elements in InkscapeĪs you can tell now, cropping a photo is very easy to do in Inkscape. Inkscape has a few effects that work for images, such as Extensions > Color > Grayscale.īelow, I’ve also added a drop shadow by blurring a duplicated key shape and positioning it behind the cropped key. Instead of simply cropping like “clipping” does, masking uses color lightness to adjust the intensity of the crop. All that’s left to do is select the image and key shape together and use Object > Mask > Set.īelow is the result of the “masking”. In the photo editing world, this is known as “feathering”. The default Grid has minor divisions every pixel and major divisions every 5 pixels. A Grid will not show when the drawing is printed or exported as a bitmap. Optionally, objects will snap to a Grid when being drawn or moved, enabling accurate drawing. Below, I’ve also applied a very slight blur to the shape (using Fill and Stroke) which will make the crop look more realistic. A Grid is a set of horizontal and vertical lines that provide a guide for drawing objects. To cut the loop hole, select both shapes and do a Path > Difference.Īt this point, make sure the final shape is white. I gave my key shape and ellipse different colors just so I could see them better. I almost forgot about the loop hole in the key! The Ellipse tool should work well for this. You can of course use the Nodes tool to fine-tune the nodes to get it perfect. It’s a little tedious, but my key is rather simple, so it only took me about 30 seconds to do. In this case, we’ll be using the Pen tool to manually trace the object. Let’s say I wanted to crop out the key entirely. Then go to Window -> Pathfinder and click Crop. Select both objects while making sure that the object you want to crop is underneath. First, create your shape by using the Rectangle or Ellipse Tool. That’s how you’d do a simple crop using Inkscape, but what if you wanted something more complicated? If you want to crop a vector in a simple shape, you can also use their vector Crop tool, which is hidden in the Pathfinder control panel.
Remember that you can not crop an image with more than one single shape concurrently. Drag and drop a PNG image into Inkscape and do Set Clip. Now just use the Selection tool to select the image and rectangle, then head up to Object > Clip > Set.īelow is my clipped result. You can crop a real bitmap image with same technique.