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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

Inkscape’s object properties

Objects in Inkscape have special properties. These properties are different, depending on the type of object you are drawing (circle, rectangle, star, spiral, and so on).

For example, you may have noticed that the rectangles you made in the previous chapter with the Rectangle tool have corner rounding properties, which allow you to round the corners. These properties are displayed in the Tool control bar and have special handles displayed on the selected shape itself to adjust these values without needing to enter values.

Stars or polygons made with the Star and Polygon tool have an adjustable number of points as well as point rounding, plus other useful features such as randomization, which we will soon see when exploring these drawing tools.

Likewise, circles have Start and End angles, which are useful for making pie charts, as we will soon explore when we look at the Circle, Ellipse, and Arc tools.

Figure 3.1 shows various types of...