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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

The Polygon and Star tool

Talk about an object with options! The Polygon and Star tool is useful for making all manner of neat shapes. Here’s a view of the option-packed Tool control bar for this tool (Figure 3.10):

Figure 3.10 – The Polygon and Star tool and its corresponding controls

Figure 3.10 – The Polygon and Star tool and its corresponding controls

The first two toggles by the word Change: control whether the shape is a polygon or a star, as seen in Figure 3.11 (left). The Corners: Spin Box controls how many corners the polygon has or how many points the star has, which you can see in Figure 3.11 (right):

Figure 3.11 – (left) Changing a polygon into a star and back with the Change: toggles. (right) Adding/removing corners with the Corners: Spin Box controls

Figure 3.11 – (left) Changing a polygon into a star and back with the Change: toggles. (right) Adding/removing corners with the Corners: Spin Box controls

The Spoke Ratio aspect of our star controls the sharpness of the spokes, as you can see in Figure 3.12 (left). Typically, though, it’s easier to control via dragging the spoke handles, which allows you to...