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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

Vectorizing to black with the Single scan tab

The simplest method of vectorizing with Trace Bitmap is using a black-and-white or high-contrast image. Once you have your image on a canvas (by dragging the image from your filesystem onto the canvas, or using File > Import), you simply select the image and then select Path > Trace Bitmap. This brings up the Trace Bitmap dialog, as shown in Figure 14.2.

Figure 14.2 – The Trace Bitmap dialog

Figure 14.2 – The Trace Bitmap dialog

Using the Single scan tab, and Detection mode set to Brightness cutoff, we get a black-and-white preview at the bottom of the dialog. Note that since our logo bitmap is colored with gradients, some of the preview is missing.

This is because Brightness cutoff uses the Threshold value to determine where the brightness cutoff should be. Smaller values closer to 0.0 will capture only the darkest areas of the image, and values closer to 1.0 will capture lighter and lighter colors. Since some parts of our logo...