: How to create a light highlight in Inkscape? I have the following image created in Gimp. I'd like to create a similar image in Inkscape. What I want to happen is to have a bright light

@Tiffany317

To reproduce the effect you made in Gimp with Inkscape I took the following steps:


Create filled circles and make them a group


Create a large circle with the gradient circular fill (here black for illustration)


Duplicate the group of colored circles to then create a unified path (Path > Union)


Select this new path and the gradient circle to cut out the path intersection (Path > Intersection)


At this point I added a canvas and changed the gradient fill from black to white.

Move the gradient until happy




After grouping the gradient object and the coloured circle group we will finally have a new object resembling your Gimp original:





Side note: for more fancy or realistic effects we may also want to try out some of the inbuilt filters to get many interesting effects (below I applied Filters > Bevels > Deep color plastic)

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