Here is the next tutorial in the filters series by Niko Kiirala, This tutorial covers the composite filter.

“Composite is, as the name states, an effect that can composite images together. It uses the Porter-Duff blending modes named after the writers of the paper, where it was published.

The Porter-Duff blending modes are basically logical operations applied to images. For example, you can go and take an exclusive or of two images. In the original paper there was a table showing an example of each mode and some variation of that has been included in most places, where these modes are explained.”

Here is the second tutorial in Niko’s Inkscape Filter Effects series. Today’s tutorial focuses on the color matrix filter. The quote below (taken from the tutorial) best sums it up…

Color Matrix is an interesting filter, that can mix up the colours in your image in many ways. Blanc and white images, sepia toning, hue rotation and removing one of the basic colours from image are a couple examples, what kind of modifications this filter can do.

Inkscape developer Niko Kiirala is doing an awesome, in-depth tutorial series looking at the complex area of SVG filters in inkscape. The first tutorial, which covers the blend filter is a great introduction to the inkscape filters and their use.

here is yet another awesome tutorial from kalaalog, this subject of illustration this time is a bunch of tomatoes.

If you are looking for a simple technique for creating shadows of simple objects, this is your tutorial.

here is a nice little tutorial on illustrating chain links using inkscape.

One of my fellow fedora artTeam members, Martin Sourada has created a great tutorial for creating icons with an ‘on the table’ perspective.

This particular tutorial links closely to the echo icon theme that the fedora artTeam are working on at the moment, but contains useful elements that can help with all icon design in inkscape.

UPDATE: Nicu has been posting incremental updates on this tutorial on his blog… to date there are 3 parts in total:

1. Drawing the Gears
2. Colouring the Gears - Golden Gears
3. Colouring the Gears - Gears on Old Paper

After the last few posts not being actual tutorials, today the inkscape tutorials weblog is getting back into the swing of things with an awesome little howto from nicu.

Nicu demonstrates how to create gears in inkscape, vary them and build them up to create complex “mechanisms”

here is another awesome tutorial from the equally fantastic kalaalog. This tutorial demonstrates how to Illustrate A Reddish Pink Hibiscus Flower in Inkscape. As always, the link to the tutorial is after the jump…

here is another video made by halley, showing the makeup of this Lamborghini Gallardo that is a public domain artwork in the openclipartlibrary.

this is done using the same python script as halley used on his other video.

the musical backing track is from is a creative commons licensed track from ccmixter and can be downloaded here

Links:

http://openclipart.org/media/files/TheStructorr/2519

http://openclipart.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wl6hXurUaI

http://halley.cc/

http://ccmixter.org/files/Tekno_Eddy/14377

http://ccmixter.org/