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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

Node Editing – Modifying Your Shapes with Nodes and Curves

Up to this point, we’ve learned how to make a few illustrations with the shape tools. This is somewhat limiting, however. Often, we want to make completely custom shapes. This chapter is dedicated to a variety of ways to make and edit shapes to get them just the way we want them to be.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Editing shapes with the Node tool
  • Curve handles and node types
  • Breaking and joining lines
  • Drawing lines and shapes from scratch
  • Line styles (Stroke Style menu)
  • Advanced curve and line options
  • Making brush strokes with Stroke Shape