Inkscape introduced the inverse clip effect in it’s 1.0 release in the spring of 2020. Standard clipping masks - such as that used in a previous lesson where we went over how to cut out a shape from an image - will result in the opposite of what we’re trying to accomplish in this lesson. Step 2: Create a rectangle in the size of your image and position it beneath the drawn pathĪs mentioned earlier, we’re going to have to create an inverse clipping mask in order to delete part of an image in Inkscape. The idea is that we have a vector path generated over the area of the image that needs deleting. You could also use simple shapes, such as circles, squares and polygons.

It should be noted that if the area you’d like to delete from your image is more of a simple shape then you do not need to manually trace it with the Bezier Pen. For this demonstration we will be removing the zebra from the following example image: Generate a vector path in the shape of the area you’d like to delete.

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