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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing
[2023]
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009755239706719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Technical requirements
- The Gradient tool
- The Gradient Editor
- The Mesh Gradient tool
- Pattern Fills
- Using blur for complex shading
- Color blending with Blend modes
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Clips and Masks
- Technical requirements
- Clips and clipping groups
- Clips inside clips
- Masking with vector shapes and images
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Automation with Clones and Linked Files
- Technical requirements
- What is a clone?
- Cloning groups
- Clones as clips and masks
- Clone management using clones of clones
- Leveraging linked image files
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Part 3: Inkscape's Power Tools
- Chapter 11: Organization Using Layers
- Technical requirements
- What is a layer?.
- Understanding the Objects and Layers dialog
- Organizing projects using groups and layers
- Layer transparency and Blend modes
- Cloning layers
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Live Path Effects
- Technical requirements
- What is a Path Effect, and why is it live?
- The Path Effects dialog
- Using Path Effects with single-path objects
- Using Path Effects with groups
- Stacking Path Effects
- Limitations of Path Effects
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Filters and Extensions
- Technical requirements
- Using filters
- Making custom filters
- Using extensions
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Chapter 14: Vectorizing with Trace Bitmap
- Technical requirements
- What is Trace Bitmap?
- Vectorizing to black with the Single scan tab
- Vectorizing to color shapes
- Tracing parts of a bitmap with the Fill Bucket tool
- Try it yourself
- Summary
- Chapter 15: Document Properties, Pages, Exporting, and Printing
- Technical requirements
- The Document Properties dialog
- The Pages tool
- The Export dialog
- Save and export considerations
- Saving for printed magazine adverts
- Saving and exporting for email-friendly PDFs
- Exporting for the web
- Saving for CNC cutters and engravers
- Exporting for print-on-demand websites
- Printing
- Summary
- Index
- Other Books You May Enjoy.
