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can someone help create a silohuette of a cottage, forest scenery, with deer and bear for a glass block light? i have the zip files. i created a design in my SCAL, but i can't get it into inkscape to make it look like a silohuette. i am not that educated on inkscape to do it yet. i understood that once you make it in SCAL, then you can not put it in inkscape? any help is appreciated. thanks
I am sure once someone creates it, then alot will want it on here

Try clicking on each piece in your SCAL design and selecting blackout style. It should work but isn't always reliable, especially for complex images.
If you have to go from SCAL to Inkscape, you could take a screen shot of the layout in SCAL and import that bitmap into Inkscape to autotrace or use as a guide for rebuilding it from scratch in Inkscape.

ok, how do i take a screenshot from my SCAL? And I will certainly try that blackout thing in my SCAL. Thanks

That depends on whether you have a PC or a Mac. On a PC, press the printscreen button and it should put the screen capture on your clipboard ready to paste into Inkscape (I use a Mac and can't paste into Inkscape, so I don't know whether that works on a PC or not) or save to a new paint document for later import to Inkscape.
On a Mac press shift-command-3 to save the screenshot named Picture 1,2,3, etc. to your desktop. Then import it from Inkscape.

Hi ,
I found 2 tutorials for screenshot and don't forget to check out the video...

How To Capture a Screen Shot of your Desktop or the Active Window in Windows

1 http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/genera ... enshot.htm



how to find your clipboard viewer in windows XP?

2 http://www.andyrathbone.com/tips/clipbrd.html

Nellie

thanks for your help. i will try that. someone asked me yesterday for a screenshot and i got my camera out and took a pic of my screen...hehehe, I had no idea what he meant, but now I do. This Hi-Tech lingo and stuff is all new to me.