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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

Tracing parts of a bitmap with the Fill Bucket tool

Say we’d like to grab parts of our duck head to make a nice logo. We could attempt to auto-trace it with Trace Bitmap and cut out the unused portions, but we could also just use the Fill Bucket tool to selectively grab shapes. This method also allows us to get shapes from an area of color regardless of how light or dark it is.

For example, we can trace parts of our duck’s head by selecting the Fill Bucket tool and click-dragging over areas of color we’d like to capture. By doing this multiple times, we can build up a much better illustration than we would get otherwise. This iterative click-dragging process is shown in Figure 14.12.

Figure 14.12 – Using the Fill Bucket tool to trace shapes in the duck’s head

Figure 14.12 – Using the Fill Bucket tool to trace shapes in the duck’s head

It’s worth noting that like the other Inkscape tools, the tool controls bar contains options for the Fill Bucket tool when it’s active. Turning...