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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

Automation with Clones and Linked Files

You’ve finished the logo! Well, you thought you had anyway...but after meticulously pouring over every detail of the logo or illustration and accompanying swag mock-ups (that is, t-shirts, mugs, business cards, and so on), you get that dreaded last-minute Can you just change one thing in the logo for us? email from the client. You could go back and re-do all those carefully designed mock-ups or copy/paste in the new logo revisions, or you can hop in my patented Should Have Done it Differently time machine and make all your mock-ups with clones instead!

That would allow us to change just the original logo and have the changes appear automagically everywhere we used clones, but what are clones really, and how do we use them?

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is a clone?
  • Cloning groups
  • Clones as clips and masks
  • Changing Clone Fill and Stroke Colors
  • Clone management using clones of clones...