Layer transparency and Blend modes
Yes, that’s right! You can indeed change Blend mode on a layer (or group). There are several functional advantages to doing this. The most obvious is that you can change the transparency and blend of everything inside the layer all at once. Note that this is functionally different from changing the transparency or Blend mode of each individual object.
To demonstrate, let’s consider a set of overlapping circles. If we select them all and change the transparency, Inkscape will change the transparency of each of the shapes. This means that we see darker areas when the shapes overlap since the transparency of, say, 50% adds up when transparent shapes overlap, as shown in Figure 11.9.
Figure 11.9 – Changing the opacity of selected circles individually via the Fill and Stroke dialog
Sometimes, however, this isn’t what we want. If we have a layer containing these three circles, we might want to...
