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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

Organizing projects using groups and layers

Layers provide a nice functional separation between parts of the document you’re working on. Figure 11.4 shows a simple setup with the background and text layers, each containing the appropriate objects.

Figure 11.4 – A simple example of using layers for organization

Figure 11.4 – A simple example of using layers for organization

However, the names are solely for your own reference, so if you’d rather name them Phil and Lily, it’s all on you. You can see, in this case, we’ve sorted three text objects into the text layer and an image and brown rectangle into the background layer.

These appear slightly indented in the Layers and Objects dialog. Clicking the small arrow at the side of the layer will expand or collapse the list of objects in the layer.

Inkscape gives us one layer already, but what options do we have to create more? A quick look at the Layer menu gives us many options for working with our layers, including Layer > Add...