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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

Cloning layers

Remember all the fun we had with clones in the previous chapter? Well, turns out we can have all the convenience of working with clone groups inside a layer by cloning the layer!

This can help prevent us from accidentally destroying our clone hierarchies because Inkscape never automatically selects just a layer – you have to manually select it inside the Layers and Objects dialog.

To make a clone of a layer, we need only select the layer and then select Edit > Clone > Create Clone, as before. You can see from Figure 11.12 that we get a new clone object outside our layer called use176, which we can then name as something more memorable, such as raccoon clone.

Figure 11.12 – Cloning a layer

Figure 11.12 – Cloning a layer

There’s a catch, though – for that extra protection, we have to sacrifice resizing our original because the moment we group a layer in order to resize the original without resizing the clones, we leave the layer vulnerable...