Design Made Easy with Inkscape A Practical Guide to Your Journey from Beginner to Pro-Level Vector Illustration.

Discover quick and easy ways to make charts, diagrams, illustrations, and UX/UI mockups with end-to-end guidance using hands-on tutorials, tips, and tricks Key Features Get up to speed with vector illustration in no time Explore hotkey charts and tips, with best practices developed over ten years of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogers, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2023.
Temas:
Inkscape (Electronic resource)
Computer graphics.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
  • Chapter 1: The Inkscape Interface
  • Technical requirements
  • Navigating the interface
  • The Menu bar
  • The Tool bar and Tool control bar
  • The Desk and Page areas
  • The Swatch Palette
  • The color indicators
  • The Layer Info Indicator
  • The Status bar
  • The Docking area and dialogs
  • The Commands bar
  • The Snap control bar
  • The Display Transform Control
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: Moving and Styling Shapes
  • Technical requirements
  • Introducing shapes in Inkscape
  • Raster versus vector images
  • Drawing your first shape
  • Fill and Stroke
  • Using the Select and Transform tool
  • Selecting and deselecting individual shapes
  • Selecting multiple shapes all at once
  • Selecting everything
  • Fancy selecting with the Alt key
  • Selecting objects with the same attributes
  • Invert selection
  • Moving shapes
  • Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting shapes
  • Resizing shapes
  • Resizing the height and width values with the Select and Transform tool
  • Resizing shapes with Paste Size
  • Scaling styles
  • Rotating shapes
  • Raising and lowering shapes
  • Grouping shapes
  • Flipping shapes
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools
  • Technical requirements
  • Inkscape's object properties
  • The Rectangle tool
  • The Circle, Ellipse, and Arc tools
  • The Polygon and Star tool
  • The 3D Box tool
  • The Spiral tool
  • Try it yourself
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Automatic Shape Alignment in Inkscape
  • Technical requirements
  • The Align and Distribute dialog
  • Text object alignment
  • On Canvas Alignment
  • Rearranging options
  • Grid arranging shapes
  • Circular arranging shapes
  • Automatic spacing and alignment with Smart Snapping options
  • Try it yourself
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Node Editing
  • Modifying Your Shapes with Nodes and Curves
  • Editing shapes with the Node tool
  • Adding and removing nodes
  • Curve handles and node types
  • Breaking and joining lines
  • Drawing lines and shapes from scratch
  • Line styles
  • Classical drawing tools
  • Advanced curves and line options
  • Making brush strokes with Stroke Shape
  • Try it yourself
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
  • Chapter 6: Fast Shape Editing with Path Operations and the Shape Builder Tool
  • Technical requirements
  • What are Booleans?
  • Exploring the Combine, Break Apart, Split Path, Fracture, and Flatten operations
  • Exploring the Inset, Outset, and Dynamic Offset Path operations
  • Fast Path operations with the Shape Builder tool
  • Try it yourself
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Using Text in Inkscape
  • Installing new fonts
  • The Text tool
  • Font collections
  • The Text and Font dialog
  • Understanding variable fonts
  • Text on a curve
  • Flowing paragraphs into shapes
  • Check spelling and other handy tools
  • Try it yourself
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Advanced Shading and Coloring

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