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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

Printing

One solution is to get color calibration equipment, but before you rush out and get an expensive kit, there are a few tricks you can try instead to get close enough to the correct colors for most eyeballs out there.

Most smartphones have color-calibrated screens, so one way to check whether the colors you’re seeing are accurate is to email the PNG file to yourself and open it on your phone. If the colors match, you’ll be good to go 99% of the time. Another option is to print this color test chart I’ve made (see Figure 15.16), which is included in the materials for this chapter.

Figure 15.16 – Color test sheet to send to the printer

Figure 15.16 – Color test sheet to send to the printer

The trick is, you send this PDF (made in Inkscape) to the printer and have it print you one copy of it. When you receive the print in the mail, you can then compare it to the same file opened in Inkscape to see whether there’s any color shift. You can then manually adjust your monitor...