
Likewise some countries enable public buildings viewable from the street to be photographed and shared, but do not allow private homes and the like without permission. For instance some countries may require not just faces, but also clothes and tattoos or other distinguishing marks to be edited and blurred out. Whatever the reason, countries vary on what can legally be shared without consent. That'd be great, right? Or perhaps you don't want to disclose the location of a home or permablitz project worksite, and need to hide street signs or recipients' faces? Perhaps there are children attending your workshop, or strangers in the background, or maybe you're leading a service project in the wake of a natural disaster, or are helping refugees, or maybe there are SO many people in your presentation that it would take too long time to get everyone's permission. You can play with gradients and blur to create interesting image cropping.While working on the PEP Community badge, some people may find the desire or need to respect the privacy of event attendees, or individuals who were unable to provide consent to sharing their photo online. Here’s another great feature of masking in Inkscape: Just be sure to group objects ( CTRL + G) before masking. You can play with shapes and shades of grey to create even more awesome image cropping, like this: Remember that you can use any shape, stroke, or path.


Here, I use the calligraphy pen on the marker setting to draw a grey stroke over the image: Here, I’m using a thick grey stroke on a white circle: You can mask an object by using regular shapes or paths and using different shades of grey in their border or stroke. Let’s take a look at some examples of masking:

In addition, you can use multiple shapes or paths for cropping images in Inkscape. You can even use a vector object, such as text:

The image is now cropped according to the shapes you use to clip (in this case, a square): Now, go to Object > Clip > Set to apply clipping and crop the image. Note that the clipping shape or object always goes on top of the image to be clipped. Next, place the shape on top of the image in the area you wish to crop, and select both the image and shape, like so: You can use squares, circles, stars, or any other shape). To clip an image (assuming you’ve imported your image to Inkscape), first create the shape you’ll be using to clip or “cut” your image. This first method for cropping images allows you to cut out a shape using Inkscape.īy creating geometric shapes and then clipping your image, you can easily cut out any shape you want on a jpeg or any other raster file, including circular, rectangular, triangular, and elliptical shapes. With clipping, you can crop in Inkscape by using regular shapes, objects such as text, or paths. It’s like using a cookie cutter to create a cookie from dough. The clip operation in Inkscape lets you place a vector shape, object or path on top of an image in order to “clip” or cut a portion of that image according to the shape used.
