Inkscape gradients

[evansd2]

Jules is spot on but if resolution is important to you I’d stay away from the bitmap copy method and use export as png instead.

EDIT – Previously:

@jules and I had almost exactly this conversation months ago.

Question about shading

I will say that this is the simplest way to do it, but it’s not ideal if you want higher-resolution images. For that you should use File->Export PNG image. You can choose the DPI on the PNG, and get a very high quality resulting image. If you’re doing something very detailed, I would recommend this method. Basically, you export the PNG, then drag the resulting exported file back into your inkscape window. Now you’ll have a raster copy of your vector art, just like bitmap copy, but with muc…