SVG effects for Inkscape as a companion for Xara

[ivan louette]

I added two new filters in the Masking tools submenu : Alpha draw and Alpha fill. The first one extract the colour fill from an image and the latter draws black lines from the edges.

Because each of these filters have an alpha channel when the two images are overlaid they give the result below : a colourized drawing.

And of course you keep the flexibility of changing settings and applying other filters to the separated black drawing and colourized fill. For example you can change the black lines to any other colour with the Colourize filter (change the blend setting to Normal and change the Flood colour).

Enjoy,
ivan