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Creating effects with raster extensions

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Creating effects with raster extensions

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at a few of the things you can do to change the look of imported images using raster extensions. Here I have a few copies of a nice picture of the Eiffel tower, but it's kind of plain, and I want to try something a little more creative, and I don't want to be jumping back and forth between Inkscape and another program. So, what I can do is, select one of the images, and go to the Extensions menu, and choose something from the Raster sub-menu. It's important to note that all the commands here will work on embedded images only. So, if an image is currently linked and not embedded, Inkscape will create a new embedded copy of the image with the changes you make with raster extensions, and you can see there are a lot of choices here, and I encourage you to play around and experiment with them. In this case, we'll try three different looks. The first one we'll choose is Colorize. I'll turn on live…

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