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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

Try it yourself

Clones give us a variety of ways to use an original shape and have it change all the copies we make of it throughout the document. We can use clones on top of each other in a layering effect to make a light bulb whose shape we can control by editing a simple original shape, as shown in Figure 10.13.

Figure 10.13 – A dynamic light bulb, which changes along with our original shape

Figure 10.13 – A dynamic light bulb, which changes along with our original shape

Pretty neat, eh? So how do we go about making this? Let’s get started!

  1. Let’s start out by making our basic light bulb parts. These bits will be static. That is, they will not be part of the clones we make and thus will be unchanged by our modification of the bulb shape clones. Figure 10.14 shows the process for making each part of the bulb.
Figure 10.14 – Creating and assembling the static parts of the light bulb

Figure 10.14 – Creating and assembling the static parts of the light bulb

  1. Now that we have the base of our light bulb graphic, we can make the basic shape...