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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)
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Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
7
Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
13
Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools

Try it yourself

We saw a small example of using layers for organization earlier in this chapter with our shake article. In this exercise, you’ll do it on your own, on a topic of your choosing. We’ll be creating something like Figure 11.14.

Figure 11.14 – Article starring a friend’s dog, Heidi

Figure 11.14 – Article starring a friend’s dog, Heidi

  1. Let’s begin by renaming Layer 1 to background, then choose an image, either from your computer or one off the internet. You can download the image file and choose File > Import, or in some cases, you can just right-click the image on the web page and choose Copy image (in Google Chrome, for example), as shown in Figure 11.15.
Figure 11.15 – Copy/paste from Google Chrome right into Inkscape

Figure 11.15 – Copy/paste from Google Chrome right into Inkscape

You can then paste the image directly into Inkscape, resizing it to make room for your text.

We need to make more space for our article, so we’ll cut away part of the floor under Heidi...