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-<title>Using</title>
-<para> However, there is still a problem: The gradient still covers the whole
-canvas althought we wanted it to be restricted on the rectangle. To do so,
-activate the gradient layer in the Layer tab. Now go to the Params Dialog (by
-default a tab in the Params-Children-Keyframes window), and search the attribute
-called 'Blend Method'. Double-click the entry and select 'Onto' from the
-appearing drop-down menu.</para>
-
-<para>The gradient should now be restricted to the rectangle. Congratulations!
-You just made your first interacting layers with Synfig.</para>
-
-<para>If only for the additional organization, encapsulating layers into inline
-canvases dramatically improves the ease of use of Synfig Studio. But
-lots of programs can do this. The concept of scope as just demonstrated
-sets Synfig apart from other programs with layer hierarchies.</para>
-<para>
-<footnote><para>The following remarks seem to be outdated already! A blur
-defaults to 'Straight' here (using SVN 110). --Claus 06:45, 11 Jan 2006 (PST)
-</para></footnote>
-
- <footnote><para>It defaulted to composite for me, as described (using
- SVN 147) Matumio 07:56, 12 Mar 2006 (PST)</para></footnote>
-
- However, a layer can only modify the data that it gets from directly
- below it. In other words, if you were to throw a Blur Layer at
- the top of the objects inside the inline canvas we just created,
- it would just blur them -- anything under it would not be blurred!</para>
-
- <para>Lets try it. Add a few circles under the inline canvas we just
- created. Expand the inline canvas to show its contents, and select
- the top layer inside of it (should be the "Outline" layer). This
- is where we want to insert the blur. Right click on the selected
- layer and a popup menu will appear. The first item in that popup
- is "New Layer". Inside of the "New Layer" menu, you'll see several
- categories of layers you could create, but what we want is a blur,
- so goto the Blur category and select the "Blur" layer. (so that
- would be "New Layer->Blurs->Blur")</para>
-
- <para> Well, it blurred... but something is not quite right--the inside edge
- of the outline is now all soft, but it still kinda looks like there is
- a hard edge on the outside. It is doing this because the blend method
- of the blur defaulted to "Composite" (you can change the default
- blend method for new layers from the New Layer Defaults section of
- the Toolbox). What we want is a blend method of "Straight". Just
- select the blur layer, and change the Blend Method to "Straight"
- in the Params Dialog.</para>
-
- <para>(NOTE: I will probably change the way that default blend methods are
- handled in the future--as the way it is currently handled seems to
- only create hassles like this)</para>
-
- <para>Ok, now we have all of the contents of the inline canvas blurred,
- but everything under it is sharp!</para>
-</sect2>
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