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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

Color blending with Blend modes

The last stop on our coloring journey gives us tools that normally one would use photo-editing software such as GIMP or Photoshop to do. Say, for example, we have a group of shapes or a picture that we’d really like to make grayscale. For the shapes, we could just re-color them but this may prove quite tedious across many shapes with gradients, and for the photo, we have just a bunch of pixels to deal with.

Fortunately, we can do as we desire using a white rectangle and changing the blending mode to Saturation. If we put this rectangle over our picture and shapes, you can see where it sucks all the color out of those areas in Figure 8.37.

Figure 8.37 – Changing the Blend mode on a rectangle from Normal to Saturation

Figure 8.37 – Changing the Blend mode on a rectangle from Normal to Saturation

The Saturation blending mode takes the color of the square and makes the objects under it the same saturation level. It doesn’t have to be a flat color, however. For example, we can use...