Exporting Images with InkScape

Step 1: You need to head over to the [File] menu, and select Export Bitmap. This can be accomplished by using the hotkey CTRL+SHIFT+E.

Step 2: This will open up a window with a number of options. Export Area is one of the options, which we will look at further down in the post. For now you should just be concerned with Filename.

Click on Browse, navigate to a folder you remember on your H:\ (homedrive) and choose an appropriate file name. For example, if your image is of a car CAR might be a good file name.

Step 3: Click Export. This will start the process of rendering your image. Depending on file size, and complexity it may take some time. When the progress bar is finished, you will be able to find your image in the exported directory [filename].PNG. In the example of the car it would be CAR.PNG

This is an image you could then upload to your blog.



Export Area


Page:
If you export the page, everything within the confines of the page shape and size will be exported as PNG. Remember, the page is the background rectangle defined within the Document Properties section.

If you have created your illustration without considering the limitations of your "Page" some of your illustration may be cropped off during export. This, however, may be what you want. It also allows for you to create temporary objects off the page, which you may want to use in later revisions.



Drawing:
Any and all illustration objects will be exported. Rather than adhering to the limits of your page, everything you have created will be exported. The outermost reaches of your creation will serve as the boundaries of your final image.

In this case, were you to have had temporary objects hidden off the page, they would be exported. With this type of exporting it does not matter where on your page the image was created.



Selection:
When exporting selection, only the objects you have selected with the arrow tool will be exported. In this example, the face skin object was selected. Therefor, only objects within the selections dotted boundaries will be exported for the final image.