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Is there a tool like "Power Clipping" (Corel) in Inkscape?

Asked by Joana Silva

I'd like to know if there is a tool that allows me to do a "Power Clipping" as I can do in Corel. How does it work?
Thanks you very much,
Joana

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Joana,

can you describe a bit what 'Power Clipping' is? Not everyone is a Corel user.

Kind Regards,
 Maren

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Joana Silva (jofeltes) said : 		#2

Power clipping is when you insert an image inside a shape (an triangle for example) so the image gets the format of this shape.
Thanks,
Joana

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#3

Ah, so it seems to correspond to a standard Clip in Inkscape.

A clip is a kind of 'mask' that you associate with an object, that will make all parts of the object that are not inside the clip invisible.
This is different from boolean operations which *really* cut away that part of a path (but those do not work with raster images).

Find more info about clipping, boolean operations and cropping here:

https://inkscapetutorials.org/2014/04/22/inkscape-faq-how-do-i-crop-in-inkscape/
http://goinkscape.com/how-to-crop-an-image-in-inkscape/
http://goinkscape.com/how-to-crop-in-inkscape/

Kind Regards,
 Maren

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