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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

Using Path Effects with single-path objects

So, sure, Booleans are great and all, but what if we want to round the corners of a combination shape that we’ve already made? Fortunately, there’s a variety of path effects that work on single-path objects and allow us to do things based on the nodes. Let’s say our client wanted us to make a llama out of just rectangles for her Boxy Llama Coffee company.

After doing as requested, she comes back and wants some of those corners rounded. We can use the Corners path effect to do this on a corner-by-corner basis. We simply select our boxy llama path and add a Corners path effect (Path > Path Effects…), by clicking the + button in the Path Effects dialog as before. This time, however, we will select the Nodes tool, which will show us special handles that the path effect has added for us to drag out and round those corners, as shown in Figure 12.5.

Figure 12.5 – Using the Corners path effect to round the corners of our llama

Figure 12.5 – Using the...