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Title

Colors Effects

Author(s)

Ryan Lerch, ryanlerch at gmail dot com

Abstract

This tutorial covers Inkscape's colors effects and how they change the color properties of the objects in SVG documents

Body

Introduction

The colors effects in Inkscape allow the color properties of objects in an SVG document to be modified in a systematic fashion. Bitmaps are the only type of object in an Inkscape document that cannot be modified by the color effects.

When a color effect is used, it is applied to all the selected objects in a document, if no object is selected the effect is applied to all the objects in that document.

not sure if an explanation of HSL and RGB is in the scope of this tutorial.
but it maybe should be included in a tutorial about the fill/stroke dialog.
But it will be nessecary for someone reading this tutorial to have a basic understanding of those principles...