What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Inkscape Interface, gives you a tour of Inkscape’s menus, dialogs, parts, and controls.
Chapter 2, Moving and Styling Shapes, introduces you to shapes in Inkscape, transforming and styling them with stroke and fill.
Chapter 3, Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools, shows you how to use Inkscape’s shape tools and options.
Chapter 4, Automatic Shape Alignment in Inkscape, helps us understand how to align shapes relative to each other and the page automatically.
Chapter 5, Node Editing – Modify Your Shapes with Nodes and Curves, helps us understand how to make custom shapes with Inkscape’s node editing tools.
Chapter 6, Fast Shape Editing with Path Operations and the Shape Builder Tool, uses open and closed shapes as tools to make more complex combinations of shapes quickly.
Chapter 7, Using Text in Inkscape, helps us understand how to add titles and paragraphs and wrap text around and through shapes.
Chapter 8, Advanced Shading and Coloring, deals with coloring techniques to achieve depth, shadows, and textures with gradients, blurs, and blending modes.
Chapter 9, Clips and Masks, uses shapes and images to cut and mask other shapes non-destructively.
Chapter 10, Automation with Clones and Linked Files, helps us understand how to set up super templates where one change to an object changes them throughout the document.
Chapter 11, Organization Using Layers, helps us understand how to show, hide, and organize parts of complex files using named layers.
Chapter 12, Live Path Effects, adds amazing non-destructive effects to your shapes for blazing-fast complex shape generation.
Chapter 13, Filters and Extensions, helps you to make your own filters and use extensions from the Inkscape community, added on to Inkscape for all manner of illustration fun.
Chapter 14, Vectorizing with Trace Bitmap, converts raster (pixel) images to vectors for advanced editing and super-fast illustrations.
Chapter 15, Document Properties, Pages, Exporting, and Printing, dives deep into getting the most out of your files from Inkscape.