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Design Made Easy with Inkscape

By : Christopher Rogers
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Book Image

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

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By: Christopher Rogers

Overview of this book

With the power and versatility of the Inkscape software, making charts, diagrams, illustrations, and UI mockups with infinite resolution becomes enjoyable. If you’re looking to get up to speed with vector illustration in no time, this comprehensive guide has got your back! Design Made Easy with Inkscape is easy to follow and teaches you everything you need to know to create graphics that you can use and reuse forever, for free! You’ll benefit from the author’s industry experience as you go over the basics of vector illustration, discovering tips and tricks for getting professional graphics done fast by leveraging Inkscape's powerful toolset. This book teaches by example, using a great variety of use cases from icons and logos to illustration, web design, and product design. You’ll learn about hotkeys and take a best-practices approach developed over ten years of using Inkscape as a design tool in production. What’s more, this book also includes links to free graphics resources that you can use in all your projects. Whether you’re a new user or a professional, by the end of this book, you’ll have full understanding of how to use Inkscape and its myriad of excellent features to make stunning graphics for your projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
7
Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
13
Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools

The Gradient Editor

We’ve already gone through the finer points of coloring flat-shaded objects in previous chapters; however, when we add a gradient, the options in the Fill and Stroke dialog change to add a useful gradient editor. This can be seen as an alternative or addition to the Tool control bar when the Gradient tool is active. As you can see from Figure 8.15, this combines the usual color-mixing tools we’ve seen before in the Fill tab with the options in the Tool control bar for gradients.

Figure 8.15 – The Gradient Editor in the Fill tab with equivalent features shown in the Tool control bar for the Gradient tool

Figure 8.15 – The Gradient Editor in the Fill tab with equivalent features shown in the Tool control bar for the Gradient tool

So, why have all this duplicate functionality packed into the Fill and Stroke dialog? Remember that the Tool control bar options for the Gradient tool are only visible when the Gradient tool is active. By placing this functionality in the Fill and Stroke dialog, we can edit gradients on selected shapes without activating...