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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

Try it yourself

To get some practice with all of Inkscape’s great text features, we’re going to make a logo with an article wrapped around it. You don’t have to make exactly what I make. Let your imagination run free since you’ve acquired the skills in previous chapters to make whatever shapes you desire.

Imagine for a moment that you’re writing an article that describes your perfect place. That could be a pub, a restaurant, or in my case an imaginary coffee shop/bookseller, as shown in Figure 7.37:

Figure 7.37 – An article wrapped around a logo for my fantasy bookstore and coffee shop called “The Loft”

Figure 7.37 – An article wrapped around a logo for my fantasy bookstore and coffee shop called “The Loft”

First, let’s make some text and flow it into two rectangles:

  1. Use the Text tool to make a box for our text by click-dragging a box. Write our article in this box or use the Extensions > Text > Lorem Ipsum… generator to fill it.
  2. Draw two boxes with the Rectangle tool...