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Make your own flag overlay for profile pics using Inkscape (Part 2) In 2015, flag profile pic overlays were very popular for virtue signalling , especially when tragic incidents happened (French flag for Charlie Hebdo , Syrian flag for the civil war). I was not satisfied with the readily available overlays offered by Facebook because most of them darkened the colors. So I made my own using Inkscape (version 0.48 back then) and posted a howto (which I later reposted here in Blogger). My earlier method was to use overlay colored shapes with 'lighten' blend mode (and lowered opacity for the light-colored areas). That original method also involved cutting out parts of the underlying colored areas if the overlying parts are white or light-colored, otherwise the white will be tinted with the underlying color. Here's the newer method that does not involve tinkering with blend modes, opacity, and cut outs. Step 1. Import your profile pic Preferably one with dramatic lighting (hi...