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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

Try it yourself

For this exercise, we’re going to make ourselves a vanity graphic that includes a custom brushed metal filter and the use of the QR code generator to encode a scannable website address. This will look something like Figure 13.13.

Figure 13.13 – A vanity graphic with a web link QR code

Figure 13.13 – A vanity graphic with a web link QR code

Obviously, you should make it your own – that’s half the fun here! You can use any old picture of yourself off your device, and if you don’t have an official job title, you can just make one up. Well, let’s get into it!

  1. The text and base shape should be nothing new. We’ve created quite a bit of text up to this point, so go ahead and add all the text bits on the canvas, as well as a shape you’d like to use. I’ve chosen a rectangle with corners rounded to form an elongated pill shape. These parts are shown in Figure 13.14.
Figure 13.14 – Base shapes of the vanity graphic

Figure 13.14 – Base shapes of...