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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

Moving and Styling Shapes

So, now we can get into drawing, right? Well, almost. To prepare us for our shape drawing activities, let’s go over some shape basics.

In this chapter, we will learn about shapes in Inkscape, plus how to style them with Fill and Stroke. We’ll then cover how to use the Transform tool to move, rotate, and resize our shapes, and finish this chapter by aligning and distributing our shapes in relation to each other to save us a ton of work.

After all, we want to spend more time drawing, and less time moving things around manually. Fortunately, Inkscape has us covered, as we will soon see.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing shapes in Inkscape
  • Using the Select and Transform tool
  • Moving shapes
  • Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting shapes
  • Resizing shapes
  • Rotating shapes
  • Raising and lowering shapes
  • Grouping shapes
  • Flipping shapes