Hide the 'Island Shape' layer for a moment, and unlock 'Sea Blur'. So, let's move on to our 'Sea Blur' layer, which is positioned underneath our island. Obviously, you need to sit back from time to time and look at what you have overall, but there's no point in slowing your machine to a crawl just so that you can admire the nice blur effect around the coasts! Hide anything that doesn't need to be visible. If you're doing something as complex as a map in Inkscape, I would always recommend that you hide anything that doesn't need to be on screen at that particular moment. ![]() Inkscape can slow dramatically when large blurs have to be rendered on screen, so I'm going to do each layer one at a time, and when it's complete, the layer will be locked and hidden. Our next steps will add blurred effects in the sea and in the coastline areas of the island. Fig 3: The coastline stroke has been added Sea blur This will give us a nice dark coastline that contrasts well with the pale background. On the Stroke Paint tab of the Fill and Stroke panel, set the stroke colour to #654f45ff. Fig 2: Set the Stroke Style on the Fill and Stroke Panel Set the Join type to 'Round' (the first icon on the left), and set the Cap type to 'Round' (the middle icon). Make sure the stroke is a solid line (not a dashed/dotted line) and set its width to 4px. Click the island shape and, using the Fill and Stroke panel, remove the fill colour. Unhide and unlock the 'Coastline Stroke' layer. When you're satisfied, hide and lock all except the original 'Island Shape' layer.Ĭlick the island on the 'Island Shape' layer and, using the Fill and Stroke panel, set its Fill colour to white ( #ffffffff). You might want to hide all layers then show each one individually to make sure that every layer has its own copy of the island. a top copy on the 'Coastline Stroke' layerįig 1: Layers Panel showing the new layers we just added.another copy on the 'Coastline Blur' layer.the original on the 'Island Shape' layer.To summarise, you should now have four identical copies of your island:. ![]() Repeat steps 4-6 again, but this time move the duplicate down to the 'Sea Blur' layer (duplicate the island, right click/move to layer, select 'Sea Blur', lock & hide).Repeat steps 4-6, but this time move the island copy to the 'Coastline Stroke' layer (so, duplicate the island, right click/move to layer, select 'Coastline Stroke', lock & hide the layer.).Lock and hide the 'Coastline Blur' layer for now by clicking on the Eye and Padlock symbols to the left of the layer name in the Layers panel.Move the duplicated island to the 'Coastline Blur' layer. Right click on the duplicate and select 'Move to Layer'.On the 'Island Shape' layer, click the island once to select, then press Ctrl + D to duplicate.Create a new layer called ' Sea Blur', and position this BELOW the 'Island Shape' layer.Create a new layer called ' Coastline Stroke', and position this ABOVE the 'Coastline Blur' layer (Coastline Stroke will be the top layer).Create a new layer called ' Coastline Blur', and position this ABOVE the 'Island Shape' layer.To achieve this, we'll need three new layers, each with a duplicate copy of the island on it. I also want to add some fade-out effects around the coastline to clearly differentiate the island from the background sea area. The background colour of my island will be pure white, but I'm going to add a dark stroke around the coastline to define the shape of it. Not the most attractive shade for a map! Let's set some basic colouring for the land area and the coastline. You may have noticed in the last tutorial that my island is plain black. Now onto Part Three! Create the Coastline stroke ![]()
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