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apply photo as fill

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I am trying to fill a freeform shape with a picture of water. When I try to do this the entire rectangle fills up with the water not just my freeform shape. Help!

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi heather890,

Inkscape allows to set flat colors, gradients and patterns as fills of a shape.

What you can do is convert the photo (or almost anything, really) to a pattern, and then fill your shape with that pattern.

See here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Attributes-Fill-Stroke.html#Attributes-Patterns
(if I understand your intention correctly and something like the example picture with the car is what you want.)

Regards,
 Maren

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