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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

Grouping shapes

Sometimes, you’d like to make objects stick to each other. Take, for example, a window made of five rectangles. We’d rather not have to select all the shapes to move them as one piece. Grouping allows us to select the whole bunch of them with a single click as if they were one object.

To group selected shapes into one object, we can choose Object > Group by using the Group button in the Commands bar or simply press Ctrl + G, as shown in Figure 2.30:

Figure 2.30 – Grouping combines selected shapes into one object

Figure 2.30 – Grouping combines selected shapes into one object

Now, if we deselect our shapes, we can click just once on any of the shapes in the group and move, scale, and rotate the whole thing.

But what happens if we want to move or recolor one of the windowpanes? We could ungroup all our window shapes with Object > Ungroup (or press Ctrl + Shift + G or use the Ungroup button in the Commands bar), but the good news is that we don’t have to destroy...