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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

Summary

We covered a lot of useful tricks in this chapter. We’ve gained the ability to add, subtract, combine, and break apart shapes with the boolean operations, and set offsets with the offset path operations. We even learned a bit about how Inkscape makes holes in things with reversed paths.

All this will serve us well in our vector illustration work for making fast custom shapes without all the manual labor of drawing them from scratch. But what about letters and numbers? Even with great tools such as the Booleans and offsets, it would take ages to make a title or caption, and eons to make a whole paragraph of text!

So, let’s leave custom shapes behind for the moment and move on to using the Text and Font tools in the next chapter.