Hi,<br><br>Please first take a look at this picture composited in photoshop:<br><a href="http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blur-background.png">http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blur-background.png</a><br><br>I tried to reproduce the same effect in inkscape easilly, and i made it by using a copy of the picture, bluring it and applying a mask with a shape to simulate the effect:<br>

<a href="http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blur-background-fakebymask.svg">http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blur-background-fakebymask.svg</a><br><br>It&#39;s ok now, but I thought about filter effects (background image can be used as a connection link in the filter editor) and saw this:<br>

<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundImage">http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundImage</a><br><br>On <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Filter_Effects">http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Filter_Effects</a> there is a note about this property<br>

&quot;There&#39;s no GUI for setting the enable-background property. This property has to be set on some parent layer of filtered object to make Background Image and Background Alpha input images work.&quot;<br><br>Does the background image support is implemented?  Do you think that the same effect can be achieved with filters by applying the effect on a shape (that will blur its background content)?<br>

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