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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

Symbols

3D Box tool 59, 60

A

advanced curves 108, 109

Align and Distribute dialog 67-71

Arc tool 52-55

Arrow tool 32

B

Bezier Curve tool 99, 105, 108, 111-116

Blender

URL 60

Blend modes 249-252

using, for color blending 201-204

Blur

using, for Complex Shading 198-201

Boolean operation path effect 261, 262

Boolean path effect 260

Booleans 121-127

operations 122

bounding box 24

Break Apart operation

exploring 128-132

Brush Strokes

making, with Stroke Shape 110

BSpline Path 109

buttons 8

C

Calligraphy Brush tool 107

Cap fields

No cap 101

Round cap 101

Square cap 101

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 166, 286

Check Spelling dialog 170, 171

Circle tool 52-55

classical drawing tools 105-108

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