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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

Flipping shapes

Flipping a rectangle isn’t very exciting since it’s symmetrical. Let’s use a line of elephants instead to demonstrate the idea of flipping.

We’d like these elephants to be a bit more social and talk to each other instead of just standing in line. To flip one of them around, we could use the Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical buttons in the Tool control panel, but why go through that trouble when we could just use H and V keys (respectively) on the keyboard to do the same job?

Figure 2.32 shows the result:

Figure 2.32 – Flipping an elephant

Figure 2.32 – Flipping an elephant

That’s right! Simply select one of our elephants, hit the H key, and a full-on pachyderm conversation is ready to take place. Just don’t ignore the elephant in the room!

Similarly, tapping the V key will flip our elephant on its back, but why you would want to do that to our poor elephant is beyond me.