Inkscape Tutorial - Using Gradient Over Multiple Objects
Using gradient over multiple objects usually generate very beautiful results, it is very easy to do, in case you don’t know how to, just follow these simple steps.
First of all, create any two objects (you can create more than two too), for this tutorial I am going to use two rectangles.
Now, select both objects, open Fill and Stroke window (right click -> Fill and Stroke) and choose linear gradient.
Choose any gradient of your choice and close this window, this would result in something like
Now select both objects and choose “Gradient Tool” from the left tool bar
Drag from corner of one object to the opposing corner of other object
Hurray! you have successfully created a gradient spanning multiple objects. You can use same technique on different type of and different number of objects. Have fun.
April 14th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
The images are not displaying
April 15th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Thanks for the heads up corey, all links are fixed and working now.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Damn easy - and I just broke two keybords trying to do this before I found your tutorial. Thanks - you saved me at least another two
May 18th, 2007 at 7:23 am
AOA good effort keep it up. good if u remove many IFS
Thank u
May 18th, 2007 at 7:30 am
good
June 21st, 2007 at 11:41 pm
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June 23rd, 2007 at 5:25 am
Just a quick note for those of you who are trying to do this using the tile clone dialogue…
you have a couple of options
1)
*unlink all the clones after you create them
*follow above instructions
2)
*create your tiled clones (edit->clones->create tiled clones)
*select any object then go (edit->clones->select original)
*move the original clone out of the way
*unset the fill on the original (fill and stroke dialogue) set fill to none, then select the question mark to unset the fill, the object should go black, so it could be a good idea to move it off the canvas…
*finally, prcede as normal
June 28th, 2007 at 7:32 am
nice tutorial thanks
July 27th, 2007 at 5:39 am
nice tutorial. But how do you apply one gradient to multiple objects that overlap each other without getting a darker color at the overlapped areas?
July 27th, 2007 at 5:50 am
i found out, it had me stumped for a while though.
The solution was to to use the “union” option to make them one so that the gradient would be applied as if there were on object
July 27th, 2007 at 5:51 am
typo the last “on” has to be “one”
so > “as if there were one object”
March 20th, 2008 at 11:42 am
see also http://o-server.dyndns.org/inkscape/english.html
this website shows how to draw in Inkscape
March 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
[h]ello
I have a question - can I translate into polish your tutorial? i will use my own graphics, but I wanna add a note, that I was inspired by your tutorial ^^ and give a link to this original site. Could you write to me? at my mail that I gave for this reply please.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:29 am
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