Book Image

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

By : Christopher Rogers
1 (1)
Book Image

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

1 (1)
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

Exploring the Combine, Break Apart, Split Path, Fracture, and Flatten operations

Maybe we want to combine paths into one shape and leave all the previous geometry alone, or do the opposite, and break apart all the paths into separate shapes. We might even want Inkscape to intelligently separate individual shapes in our paths but leave the holes and cut-out shapes intact.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these operations, located just below the Booleans in our Path menu, as shown in Figure 6.13:

Figure 6.13 – The Combine, Break Apart, Split Path, Fracture, and Flatten operations in the Path menu

Figure 6.13 – The Combine, Break Apart, Split Path, Fracture, and Flatten operations in the Path menu

We used the Combine path operation to combine lines into one shape to Cut Path and Divide previously. But we can also use Combine with filled and even overlapping shapes, as shown in Figure 6.14:

Figure 6.14 – Using Combine to join the paths into one shape without affecting the path geometry

Figure 6.14 – Using Combine to join the paths into one shape without affecting the path geometry

This new combined...