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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook

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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook

Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook

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Overview of this book

Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor with an intuitive user interface that has enough depth to make quality graphic designs with an attractive layout comparable to what you would make using Illustrator or CorelDraw. But choosing the right tool and the best approach to creating the desired effect can be challenging. Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook makes it super-easy for you to make your own vector-based graphics with the powerful Inkscape editor. Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook provides you with the latest recipes to quickly create scalable vector graphics. Recipes in this book teach you about some of the most useful time-saving features in Inkscape accompanied by a list of keyboard shortcuts that you can easily memorize. In addition to covering use of Inkscape tools and their advanced features, examples from the recipes uncover solutions to common graphics problems. The book starts off with familiarizing you with the tools and techniques in Inkscape that you can use to draw 2D shapes, calligraphic shapes, and 3D boxes easily. It then guides you through the most common color-changing steps performed in Inkscape along with some convenient procedures that can save your time when dealing with colors. It explains drawing using linear and radial gradients, which are irreplaceable, usage of clones to create interesting effects in illustrations, and live-path effects that can help you speed up constructing a shape and make the process more natural. You will learn how to make those tweaks on some of the ready-made filters, and in the final recipe we will create a filter from scratch. This practical book also contains recipes showing how to use Inkscape as a raster editor and how to achieve photo-realistic effects in Inkscape. For each important technique and skill, you'll see some simple recipes, then some more advanced recipes followed by an explanation of how Inkscape works to produce the desired effects in your illustrations. By the end of this book you will be confident enough to create your own vector-based graphics with Inkscape.
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Preface

Changing icon colors using tiled clones


When creating icon sets we often want to change their base color without affecting the overall look, so we can use them on different background colors, website themes, or in other contexts. This can easily be done with tiled clones, in a way similar to how we did in the last recipe. In this recipe we will create an icon using several objects in a group and create tiled clones of it to get different icon colors.

Getting ready

Usually we want to achieve various effects in our drawings with as few objects as possible so it's easier to manage the drawing. In this case though we will have to separate our icon color information from the highlights into two objects. The goal is to unset the fill of the color-bearing object so when tiling the clones of the icon we can use the Color tab to change it without affecting the highlights.

If you already know how to create a simple icon, or you don't want to warm up by creating one, you can use the one already available...

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