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Design Made Easy with Inkscape

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

By : Christopher Rogers
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Design Made Easy with Inkscape

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

4.3 (12)
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)
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Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
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Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
13
Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools

The Rectangle tool

Okay, so you drew some rectangles in the previous chapter. Let’s build on that by going through the various options for your brand-spanking-new rectangles. It will come as no surprise that these Rectangle tool options are located in, yes, you guessed it, the Tool control bar, as shown in Figure 3.2:

Figure 3.2 – The Rectangle tool icon and the corresponding Tool control bar options

Figure 3.2 – The Rectangle tool icon and the corresponding Tool control bar options

Here, you have some manual control over the width (W) and height (H) of the rectangle, as well as two Corner Radius values (Rx and Ry) that correspond to the Corner Rounding Handles property on the top-right corner of the shape, as shown in Figure 3.3:

Figure 3.3 – Using the circular handles to drag the sharp corners into rounded ones

Figure 3.3 – Using the circular handles to drag the sharp corners into rounded ones

Dragging either of these handles will round the corner of your rectangle evenly on all four corners. You can also drag the other handle afterward to make an elliptic corner instead...

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