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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 3D Box tool

By utilizing a two-point perspective, the 3D Box tool draws… well, 3D boxes. As you can see in Figure 3.16, there are some rather vexing Angle controls and buttons with parallel lines beside them. Unlike the previous tools, changing these values will cause nothing but confusion and frustration unless you know precisely what you’re doing, so I highly recommend leaving them alone and using the handles instead:

Figure 3.16 – 3D Box tool and controls in the Tool control bar

Figure 3.16 – 3D Box tool and controls in the Tool control bar

Things can also get quite strange when you attempt to draw a box outside the page area, so if you’re going to use this tool, I recommend drawing your first box on the page, then adjusting the vanishing points by click-dragging them to extend beyond the page borders. Then, you don’t accidentally step into the fourth dimension and get a twisted mess.

Figure 3.17 shows a normal on-page 3D box (left) versus an off-page one (right):

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