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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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Curve handles and node types

When we erased that node, we got our first taste of what a curve looks like. Curves in Inkscape are Bezier curves, made of one or two curve handles (also known as control points). When you click and drag a curve handle, you get precision control over how far your curve leans in one direction or another.

When several lines are connected to the same node, we have control over how the handles relate to each other and control the smoothness of the curve across the node. To keep us from having to manually place curve handles every time we want a smooth curve, Inkscape has different node types, which are useful for making different kinds of curves.

We can select which node type we want in the Tool control bar by selecting nodes and clicking whichever node type we want. Figure 5.10 illustrates the different node types and their corresponding Tool control bar buttons:

Figure 5.10 – Inkscape’s different node types and how dragging one handle affects the other

Figure 5.10 – Inkscape’s different node types and...

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