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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

Rotating shapes

Ready to rotate? Good! Just like with resizing, this section will cover various ways to rotate.

We’ll start by selecting one of our rectangles. Notice the resize handles at the corner? Well, clicking your selected rectangle again will change them to rotate handles. Shift + S will toggle this too, and a rotation pivot will appear in the middle of the rectangle as well. You can move this pivot around and it will allow you to rotate the shape from a different point.

Rotation and rotation after moving the pivot point are shown in Figure 2.26:

Figure 2.26 – Rotation (top) versus moving the pivot point and rotating (bottom)

Figure 2.26 – Rotation (top) versus moving the pivot point and rotating (bottom)

While rotating, you can hold the Ctrl key or Alt key to lock the rotation to 15-degree increments, which is useful for some quick precision.

Another useful trick is to hold the Shift key while rotating. This will rotate the shape from the opposite corner of the handle you’re using. For example...