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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

Raising and lowering shapes

By default, Inkscape will draw every new shape you make on top of the last shape. But what if we’d like to draw a new rectangle and move it under one or more of the rectangles we have already drawn? To do this, we can simply select the rectangle we want to move down behind the others and click the Raise or Lower button in the Tool control bar.

Figure 2.28 shows what happens to our rectangle when we use each of these buttons to raise and lower our selected shape:

Figure 2.28 – The Raise and Lower buttons, and the effects they have on our selected rectangle

Figure 2.28 – The Raise and Lower buttons, and the effects they have on our selected rectangle

You can also use the Page Up and Page Down hotkeys to raise and lower the selected object without having to click buttons, which is my preferred method for doing so. Likewise, the Home and End keys will move the selected object to the very top or the bottom of all the other shapes, respectively.

Notice that the icons for the raise and lower operations appear...