Aqeel Zafar

Thanks for the tutorial. Very simple

Great tutorial thanks very helpful for this inkscape n00b.

PS. Your download link is busted

Great Tutorial. It is simple but simple is good.

well, i am the unlucky one. I tried different ways. But every time, it gives me white mask instead of transparent one. Instead of reflection, i get a white box. Only once i could get it. Rest times, its just white box below the text. Dunno where the mistake is. Inkscape 0.44 v

hmm.. some how got it. Linear gradient is not working for masking. Without gradient (ie with solid color), masking works ( Inkscape 0.45)

hello, unfortunately it doesn´t work here. same problem as ‘kumar’, only i never got it working as soon as mask-set is selected, the text disappears and obviously gets masked white. with solid color it does work. could somebody please give me your comments? i am quick to go bezerk on those things

i thought an upgrade would fix it, but unfortunately it still doesn´t work. still a white mask where reflection should be..

it´s mac osx 10.4.10 and inkscape v.45

thanks, aqeel. kindly let me know what you think.. and good luck

thanks for your response, aqeel. i have just tried again and followed every step in your tutorial exactly the way you describe it. i also downloaded your .svg file, which is displayed right, but reproducing it the same way in the same file also doesn´t work. i assume there is a different point to the problem, as with solid colors (and not black) masking works perfectly and the results look similar, only not as bright.

but i´m happy with the results using solid colors right now. i just wonder if the problem will pop up again with a different function. i´ll let you know

thanks again, aqeel!

Nice tutorial…Though when i use the black gradient…it turns to white…but when i use a different color it works…but as reinhard said…it ain’t shiny…but my satisfied with the result…

chow…yeah i used the inkscape 0.45.1-1…

Thanks alot.
It works great..

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Pick up the gradient tool (or Press Ctrl+F1) and change gradient direction as shown below.”

I suppose, you mean that duplicate the rectangel and change the gradient on the new one?

“Select both rectangle and inverted text be
hind it ”
I cannot see, what happens, the rectangel over hidden exerything. “inverted?” maybe flipped text, or I missed something?

“(you can select the text below by Alt+Click or by selecting original image and pressing Tab,” I couldn’t see before I moved out the text, but I can’t see any difference when I Alt+Click or only click: the selection-Arrows only alternate between scale and rotate.

Thanks a lot! This tut really helped mi. Cheers.

Thanks for the tutorial, Aqeel!

I dont have any background knowledge of using these softwares but trying to learn inkscape on my own, can you please send me the tutorials for the same. some thing which is structured

Very easy with you technical instructions, thanks you

see also http://o-server.dyndns.org/inkscape/english.html

this website shows how to draw with inkscape

I had a problem also when applying the mask, turns out the problem is to do with using transparent colours in the gradient just ensure that you use a solid white for one of the end points and all should be fine.

Hi, 10x for the tutorial. For anyone who wants to make some changes, here are some that I did, and looks ok:

1. When you make the rectangle (on top of the text clone). After you made it, drag the left and right side until you reach the page borders. This is very useful because if you need to change the text, or someone else wants to change the text, and the “new” text has a longer length, then the x last characters will not have the reflection.

2. After I did the reflection, I select it and go to object -> transform -> skew (45 deg). After i give it a blur (2,6). And that really looks like a cool shadow.

3. You can stroke the first text after all this steps and you`ll obtain an even more sofisticated shadow, or relfection.

Thanks a lot for the tip. One important thins is the gradient needs to be from solid black to “SOLID” white not the default transparent stop you get in the Inkscape. The “SOLID” white is required for the mask to work properly. Thats’ why a few others seem to have issues. Thanks again.

It so nice to share

Merci!

I feel like hugging you… no seriously i am a beginner but people like Tavmjong Bah, nicu and the people who blog here have made my experience with inkscape memorable… Thanks a lot I love Linux and all that comes along with it

Inkscape tutorials are also available here
http://o-server.main.jp/inkscape/english.html

sory i’am a newbie in using inkscape, can you help me

to give me some e-book or magazine or tutorrrr about effect in inkscape how to make a vectorr and etc

cuz i’m very intreasting with inkscape plizzz help my troubleee

yuo can send at junior_chef21@yahoo.com

pliizzzzzzzz i’m realy need that

Quite a few people have experienced the problem where mask simply reveals the text beneath, and the gradient disappears, or where both the text and the gradient disappear.

First, you must ensure that “Move gradients (in fill or stroke) along with the objects” is turned ON. This prevents the mask from disappearing, leaving just the text. See here:

http://tinyurl.com/6fl8gx

Second, as mentioned in some other posts, you must use a solid gradient – ensure that neither stop is transparent. This prevents both the text and the gradient from disappearing when the mask is applied.

Great Tutorial!
If I understand the last step right, you can just change the text and the reflected text will be changed, too? For me, it doesn’t work (I cloned the text as described above) but the reflected text doesn’t change.
Any ideas to solve the problem?

OK, it was my fault. I used duplicate (ctrl+D) instead of clone (Alt+D)