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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

Fast Shape Editing with Path Operations and the Shape Builder Tool

In the previous chapter, we saw how we can make shapes by editing nodes and curves. This is handy but can be quite time-consuming. Wouldn’t it be great if we could, say, add two shapes together to make one shape? That would certainly save us a lot of time! Well, you’ll be happy to hear that we can indeed do that with what is known as path operations, which people also sometimes refer to as booleans.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What are Booleans?
  • Exploring the Combine, Break Apart, Split Path, Fracture, and Flatten operations
  • Inset, Outset, and Dynamic Offset Path operations
  • Fast Path operations with the Shape Builder tool