It doesn't look like it's flying towards the pile like it's supposed to, does it? Well, let's use motion blurs to convey that motion. Look at the apple just floating in the air below. Here's the final feather filter with the adjusted blur options. Finally, you can go ahead and adjust these options to your liking (I only turned it down a bit). On the bottom, you'll see the Effect parameters tab that holds the options for that Gaussian blur. In this case, we want to turn the overall blur of the feathering down, so select the Gaussian Blur effect. This will bring up all of the individual variables that make up that particular filter. So to edit the filter we've just applied (the feather) just select it under the Filter menu. Go to Filters > Filter Editor to bring up this super overwhelming box of options. Perhaps this feathering looks a little too strong, so let's go over how to edit filters. A regular blur would blur all of the inside details as well. That should give your objects a neat lighting effect by blurring only the edges of your shapes. With the grouped objects selected, head up to Filters > ABCs > Feather. Now, this is the scene without any feathering and as you can see, it could use a little more something. A simple and fast trick is to just hit Apply again.Ī neat example of feathering is something like this silhouette below. Something I've come across a few times is that even at 100% opacity, the shadow is just not dark enough. Make sure to check Live preview so you can see the changes in real time (and don't forget to hit Apply when you're done). You notice the options: Blur radius, Opacity, and Offsets. Head up to Filters > Shadows and Glows > Drop Shadow to bring up the Drop Shadow box. One of the most simple and useful filters are Drop Shadows. Let's learn about a few useful filters, the filter editor, and check out some cool design ideas.ġ. As soon as you open the filters menu in Inkscape, you'll notice that there's a ton of them! When filters are introduced, they present a lot of quick and easy ways to make advanced drawings.

Inkscape drawing filter settings