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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

The Commands bar

This bar (see Figure 1.22) contains some of the commonly used functions in various menus in the Menu bar, such as save/load, undo/redo, and even calls up some of the dialogs. I never use these, but they are a nice touch for those who aren’t used to selecting things out of the Menu bar or using hotkeys (which is my preferred method). Recall from earlier in the chapter that this bar may be at the top by default, depending on your screen dimensions.

The Command bar is the button-clicky way to do things you should be doing with hotkeys:

Figure 1.22 – The Commands bar

Figure 1.22 – The Commands bar

The arrow at the bottom can be clicked to show more dialogs that do not fit on the screen. Depending on your screen resolution, you may or may not see this arrow.

Well, we’re here at the final bar of buttons and about as far right as we can go without falling off the screen. These are toggles, as mentioned previously, and comprise the Snap control bar.