This can be really useful when designing things like headers and posters, where you need to incorporate imagery with text and other vector elements. This makes it so that one side of an image is visible, but gradually tapers off to transparency. You can also give a photo partial transparency (or a gradient to transparency) by using layer masks. From there, grab the Opacity slider and adjust it to your liking. You can change the overall opacity of an image by selecting it and opening the Fill & Stroke menu. Opacity AdjustmentsĪnother way that you can edit photos in Inkscape is by adjusting their opacity, and Inkscape allows you to change opacity values in a variety of different ways. Then, from there, you can create a clipping path from it by selecting both objects and navigating to Object > Clip > Set.

These extractions can be made by simply grabbing Bezier Pen and manually drawing a path around the subject you’d like to extract. This allows you to do all kinds of unique things, like create a photo pop-out effect, or remove a background from an image.

Not only can clipping paths be used to crop photos in Inkscape, but they can also be used to extract subjects from photos.

Custom crop in inkscape