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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 extensions

Extensions are actions that are not included in Inkscape’s core code but were written as extras by the Inkscape community. They do all manner of things, which we’ll explore in this part of the chapter. As in the previous section, we will not be going over all of them but, rather, give you an overview of what’s there at your disposal.

Unlike filters, extensions are single-use actions that either change or add objects to your canvas. These are destructive rather than the previous non-destructive changes – once you run an extension, the only way to get your original shape back the way it was is to use the Edit > Undo option. For this reason, I also recommend saving your work before using an extension.

Since there are so many different kinds of extensions, they are grouped functionally into categories, which you will see if you expand the Extensions menu in the menu bar at the top of Inkscape’s interface, as shown in Figure 13...