- #GOOD INKSCAPE TUTORIALS HOW TO#
- #GOOD INKSCAPE TUTORIALS PLUS#
We use Layers because it makes it easier to organize our objects.14:40 Now we go through Layers and why we use them.
14:30 And the above brings up the important Layers Menu concept which has the shortcut key (Shift + Control + L) or more easily just click on the Layers Panel (Remember we opened a bunch of dialogue boxes in the Panels area on the right to our work area when we started our new file (Stroke and Fill, Text and Fonts, Layers, Align and Distribute, Arrange, Swatches, and Arrange.To ungroup your objects so you can change them individually, you click the arrow (selector key) and then you use the ungroup shortcut key (Control + U + Left Click).Or to create a group you can, using the selection tool, draw a box around the objects around your group.A better way to group all the objects on the page is to use the shortcut (Control + A).Then you can move and change the objects as a group. So say we want to group the three boxes on our page – One way is to hold down shift key while you click the selector key (arrow on the left side list) on each of the objects you want to select.We’re going to be using group and ungroup all the time.At 13:15 he gets back to more practical stuff for beginners.Rows and Columns Dialogue Box in previous versions has now been changed to Object/Arrange.This is all very neat but not necessary for beginners.
#GOOD INKSCAPE TUTORIALS HOW TO#
From 8:00 to 13:15 the author shows us how to create (define) custom short cut keys by going into the Inkspace\share\keys\default.xml. If you don’t fill in a color it will disappear when you click to create a new square. To create a square, click on the square tool, draw the square, and fill it with a color. So go ahead and do all that from the Menu Bar (because this is the newer version). You want to open up all the boxes that he opened in the last video by clicking on the right buttons or going to the Menu bar to open them there (Fill and Stroke, Text, Layers, Align and Transform, Swatches, Align and Distribute). When you open Inkspace you will get a default page which you want to get rid of by unchecking the Show Borders Check Box at the bottom of Page Tab of The Dialogue Properties Box which lives in File Menu (Shift + Control + D). The author says that this tutorial is basically an FAQ so it will be all over the place. Inkscape Video Tutorial 2 25:47 by Derek Banas 
Control G groups all the objects on the screen. #GOOD INKSCAPE TUTORIALS PLUS#
You can zoom in or out on the screen by pressing plus or minus. Control A – Selects all of our different objects on the screen. Down the left side are some tools and each time you click on a tool you get a different tool control bar at the top, just above the horizontal ruler. 92) which I couldn’t find because in this version Rows and Columns Dialogue Box has been changed to the title Arrange Dialogue Box in Objects Menu. He opens Rows and Columns but he is using an earlier version (the current version is. Open Swatches which is in the View Menu. Open Align and Distribute which lives in the Object Menu. Open Stroke and Fill which lives in the Object Menu. Then he opens six dialogue boxes that you will need to work with in Inkscape. So what we do is uncheck the show page border box at the bottom of the Page Tab. Document Properties Dialogue Box lives in the File Menu. You do this by going to the Document Properties Dialogue Box (Shift + Control + D). First he shows you how to get rid off the default page that is present when you open Inkspace. In this video, the author goes through all the buttons and menus. Inkscape Video Tutorial 21:37 by Derek Banas Inkscape Video Tutorial 8 16:41 by Derek Banas. Inkscape Video Tutorial 7 18:55 by Derek Banas. Inkscape Video Tutorial 6 27:55 by Derek Banas. Inkscape Video Tutorial 5 25:16 by Derek Banas. Inkscape Video Tutorial 4 29:52 by Derek Banas. 
Inkscape Video Tutorial 3 22:52 by Derek Banas.Inkscape Video Tutorial 2 25:47 by Derek Banas.Inkscape Video Tutorial 21:37 by Derek Banas.In a later post I’ll review the last four. Derek’s website is and is very much worth a visit. There are eight outstanding Inkscape Video Tutorials by Derek Banas.
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