: Inkscape: Smooth blur effect I am following a tutorial which is far too quick for me to see what is being done, I am trying to smooth a kind of blur effect, it looks like it's blur being

@Samaraweera207

I think what you can't see in that almost useless tutorial is that the blurred shapes are contained inside a clipping mask.

Create all the shapes, group the internal shapes that are to be blurred, then select the outer most shape, and Copy and Paste in Place. Select both outer shape and inner group, then click Object > Clip > Set.

Then using the Edit Paths by Nodes Tool, select each shape and apply the blur you need.

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@BetL875

After watching the tutorial you linked to I agree that the steps are too fast, and hard to follow. Nevertheless my avatar was created using similar effects so I am going to post the steps I took:


Create a radial fill gradient in a slightly blurred circle


Add white circle to create highlight


Blur the white circle

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