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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

Clips inside clips

At this point, you may be thinking, well, this is pretty cool... but can I make a clip inside of a clip? The answer is yes, you can definitely clip inside of another clip. But when you do, you’ll need to make sure that the clipped object is grouped to itself first. If you don’t do this, only the topmost clipped shape will be used for clipping/masking, and any clipping shapes inside will be erased.

Take, for example, a circle clipped with a star, and then clipped with a rectangle. In Figure 9.6, you can see that if we do not group the newly clipped star circle, Inkscape will completely toss away the star clip when we try to clip it to the rectangle. Grouping the star circle to itself after clipping fixes this issue, giving us the result we want.

Figure 9.6 – The results of clipping an already clipped shape without grouping (top) and with grouping (bottom)

Figure 9.6 – The results of clipping an already clipped shape without grouping (top) and with grouping (bottom)

Of course, if you’ve told Inkscape to automatically...