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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

The Path Effects dialog

Like most of our other advanced functionality, Inkscape provides a dialog for Path Effects. Once opened, we will see a rather minimalist interface that resembles the Layers dialog, only completely empty. Without any objects selected, there is nothing to do here yet, and the controls are grayed out.

We need to select one (and only one) object for the Add path effect control to be active, which is the little plus sign in the bottom-left corner of the dialog. Once we click that button, we are presented with a myriad of great new tools to non-destructively modify our paths, as shown in Figure 12.2.

Figure 12.2 – Adding a path effect

Figure 12.2 – Adding a path effect

Depending on which path effect we choose, different things will happen to the shape we have selected. For example, adding a Boolean operation path effect to our circle does nothing right away, except add an entry to the Path Effects dialog and show controls for the Boolean operation path effect...