: Split a path into two separate paths in InkScape I have a monochrome drawing of a face done in SVG. The entire face is one path. How do I for instance select just an eye and make it into

@Cugini998

CAI right.
But Break Apart will make it for all path, not only for the eyes
better this way:


Make a duplicate
Break Apart duplicate (now all the pieces are selected and separated)
Unselect duplicate-eye Shift+click (more convenient in outline mode)
Delete
Now we have a separate duplicate-eye over original, you need to remove original eye
Cut duplicate-eye for convenience
1 Way use freehand-pencil tool shape over the eyes and a Boolean subtracting operation removes it
2 Way Edit shape tool select eye nodes and delete
Paste eye




Yes, it looks difficult, but with hot keys is fast enough.

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@Tiffany317

From what I understood your SVG is made of a white object (the face) on a black background. Therefore we can not easily select the black eye as a separate object.

To overcome this a very fast method would be to use Inkscape's Bucket Fill tool (Shift + F7 ). By this we can create a new object outlining the shape of the undelying object we had applied it to. Colors and stroke properties will will be of our current defaults and needs to be adapted to match the source.

For more complex objects, or in case we need to obtain parts of a (foreground) object we can Break apart the existing path to create new objects.

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@Cugini998

Mark the black path.
Shift+Ctrl+K (or Path menu, divide)


Now you have isolated black entities. In above picture, this will be mouth, eye, eyebrow and the rest, since the rest is connected.

Perhaps you have to ungroup after dividing - not sure.

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@Berryessa866

Path → Break Apart

I don't personally use Inkscape, but in Illustrator this would be a compound path or shape and there is a command to release the compound path.

According to this post on the Inkscape forum, the equivalent in inkscape is 'Break Apart' available from the Path menu.

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