Shattered, Smashed and Grungy Text in Inkscape

here is a step by step howto on creating a shattered text effect.

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inkscape text tricks

This tutorial covers the following useful text tips and tricks:

• Applying bold and italic styles
• Changing the vertical baseline
• Manual kerning
• Rotating letters

chrome text effect

Here is a detailed tutorial that demonstrates how to create chrome text using inkscape.

colourful text effect

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text reflection using inkscape

here is a great little tutorial that shows you how to use inkscape’s masking to achieve the trendy text reflection effect that is everywhere nowdays…

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internationalize your graphics

here is an advanced tutorial by AndyFitz that demonstrates how to use inkscape and the gnome desktop to internationalise your SVG graphics.

 

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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: Calligraphy

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

It is a fairly in depth introduction into the calligraphy tool and its various options.

 

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Official Inkscape Tutorial: Advanced

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

It covers topics such as Pasting techniques, Drawing freehand and regular paths,  Editing paths, Subpaths and combining, Converting to path, Boolean operations, Path Inset and outset, Path Simplification, Creating text, Manual Kerning and the  XML editor.

 

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rubber stamp tutorial

this nifty little tutorial shows you how to make a “rubber stamp” logo / decal using inkscape.

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Beveled edge text effect tutorial

This is a tutorial that shows you how to do a simple beveled edge text effect in inkscape.

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Reflected Text Video Tutorial

Here is another video tutorial from the guys at screencasters.heathenx.org

This time they walk you through doing reflected text in inkscape.