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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 color shapes

So far, we know how to vectorize to single-layer black shapes. Sometimes, we’d like to be able to vectorize an image into a series of stacked, differently colored shapes. This is possible through the Multicolor tab in the Trace Bitmap dialog. By default, Detection mode is set to Brightness steps, which produces stacked objects in shades of gray.

Similar to Single scan, Multicolor has various options on how to determine the areas of a bitmap that should be made into vector shapes. Figure 14.7 shows the various results of options available under the Detection mode dropdown for our bitmap logo.

Figure 14.7 – The results of each of the Detection mode options in the Multicolor tab

Figure 14.7 – The results of each of the Detection mode options in the Multicolor tab

As you can see, options in the Multicolor tab try to make separate vector shapes by combining similar colors in the bitmap. The number of scans (the default is 8 at the time of writing) determines how many different color objects Inkscape...