a Quick Guide to Inkscape

this is an awesome quick guide into some of the basics of inkscape.

it is a great introductory guide and a great quick reference guide for inkscape

it covers:

• working with paths
• working with objects
• working with groups
• working with clips and paths
• working with layers
• working with gradients

 

Inkscape Tutorial by heathenx: Create a File Folder

here is yet another cool video tutorial from heathenx. In this one, he demonstrates how to create a simple yet still pretty good looking file folder.

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Inkscape Tutorial by heathenx: Create Tiled Clones

here is another cool video tutorial by heathenx.
In it he demonstrates basic use to the tiled clones feature in inkscape. with the tiled clones he creates a simple checkerboard background.

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Official Inkscape Tutorial: Tips and Tricks

This tutorial is the webpage version of the “Tips and Tricks” tutorial that comes bundled with inkscape. To view these tutorials as an SVG just go to Help>Tutorials in inkscape.

It covers the following tips:
Radial placement with “Tile Clones”, How to do slicing (multiple rectangluar export areas), Non-linear gradients, Excentric radial gradients, Aligning to the center of the page, Cleaning up the document, Clipping or masking a bitmap, Hidden features and the XML editor, Stamping, Pen tool tricks, Entering Unicode values, Using the grid for drawing icons, Object rotation, Open dialog as an object palette, Bitmap drop shadows, Placing text on a path, Selecting the original, Window off-screen recovery, Transparency, gradients and PostScript export

 

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Official Inkscape Tutorial: Shapes

This tutorial is the webpage version of the “Shapes” tutorial that comes bundled with inkscape. To view these tutorials as an SVG just go to Help>Tutorials in inkscape.

This tutorial covers all the basics on using shapes in inkscape. How to draw, resize and manipulate rectangles, ellipses, spirals, stars & polygons.

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Official Inkscape Tutorial: Basic

 This tutorial is the webpage version of the “Basic” tutorial that comes bundled with inkscape. To view these tutorials as an SVG just go to Help>Tutorials in inkscape.

The Basic Tutorial covers canvas navigation, managing documents, shape tool basics, selection techniques, transforming objects with selector, grouping, setting fill and stroke, alignment, and z-order.

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