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Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers

By : Bethany Hiitola
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Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers

By: Bethany Hiitola

Overview of this book

<p>Do you think that your website could do with more visual appeal? Are you looking to spice it up with attractive designs and effects? Enter <i>Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers</i>&mdash;the only book specifically tailored to using Inkscape for web design. This book will teach you how to effectively use the fascinating new Inkscape vector graphics editor, which, despite being in version 0.48 <i>and</i> having no dearth of competitors, has already separated itself from the competition. Learn everything you need to know about enhancing your website&mdash;from site layouts to templates and animations&mdash;whether you are looking for a new website design or just some eye-candy.<br /><br />The Inkscape graphics editor is powerful, but getting started is often difficult. <i>Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers</i> walks you through the challenge of using Inkscape from a web design perspective in the easiest way possible. <br /><br />The first book to unlock the potential of Inkscape for web design, it begins with an introduction to the basics of Inkscape and then journeys you through implementing them in your website one by one.<br /><br />Learn to build your first website design using Inkscape. Create web page and desktop wallpapers with repeating pattern backgrounds and swirling designs. Incorporate icons and interactive maps on your website. Style and graphically manipulate text&mdash;from simple headings to shadowing, following paths, reflections, 3D effects, and more. Enhance your web pages using flowcharts, diagrams, and site maps and learn how to export them. Spruce it all up using animations. <br /><br />This book will teach you all that and more, in a simple effective manner; and what's more&mdash;you'll have fun doing it.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Keyboard Shortcuts
Glossary of Terms
Index

Using perspective


Similar to placing text within a shape, let's learn how to give text some perspective—put it in forms that make it look like it is farther away and zooming forward and more. Here are a few steps to give this a try:

  1. First, open an Inkscape document and type some text. Make sure the text is a larger font size to best see the results of this effect.

  2. Select the text and then from the main menu choose Paths and then Objects to Paths to change the text into paths. Once you do this the text cannot be edited, so make sure it says exactly what you want it to say.

  3. Next, use the Bezier tool and draw your irregular shape around the words with a smaller height in the back and larger in the front to simulate the words coming toward you on the screen.

  4. Select both the text and this new shape.

  5. Then from the main menu select Extension and then Modify Path and Perspective. The letters will then fill out and stretch to meet the edges of the shape. And as the shape simulated perspective, the words...