Basic tutorial in English.
The concepts covered are:
Line and Curve Paths.
Advanced Line and Curve Paths.
Adding Marks to Paths.
Adding Rotations to Paths.
Adding Styles to Paths.
Creating a New Path.
Creating a New Path from Other Paths.
Creating a Vector Image from Paths.
The most basic tutorials, which contain the most important basics, are tutorial . It covers:
About Paths.
Line and Curve Paths.
Advanced Line and Curve Paths.
Adding Marks to Paths.
Adding Rotations to Paths.
Adding Styles to Paths.
Creating a New Path.
Creating a New Path from Other Paths.
Creating a Vector Image from Paths.
If you have any questions, want to learn something new, or simply want to see which tutorials are available, see the Vectormap . It has a list of all vector tutorials as well as a book list that has the complete book list for vector programs.
Inside you will find basic tutorials for Inkscape, GIMP, InkScape, Vectormap and Krita. You will also find tutorials for the following open source vector graphics software:
AutocadDraw
CorelDRAW
Drawing Problem Solver
ESRI Shape Editor
Flexman
FreeHand
GIMP
Grasshopper
Mondrian
Nuance PhotoImpact
Photoshop
Quark
QuarkXPress
Scribus
SketchBook Pro
SketchBook X
SketchBook Pro X
CorelDraw
CorelDraw Graphics Suite X
CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2016
VectorWorks
Explanation
The tutorials were initially written by Jan Veit, the other tutorials are by other authors. The tutorials were developed to provide a straight forward approach to learning how to use the programs and to give a tour of the most important features.
The tutorials come in pdf format. You can download them directly from this website.
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License
All tutorials are distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License 2.1:
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When you have made your changes, save them, and then close inkscape again.
Then add a new layer, make it visible, and merge it down onto the top layer.
Once that is done, all the new objects will be seen on the screen, and be available for your alterations.
Image of baby in blue color
Image of baby in orange color
Image of baby in yellow color
Image of child
Image of eyeball
and some other graphic elements
Image of thundercloud
Image of female character
Image of male character
Image of wolf
Image of giraffe
Image of flower
Image of a human character
Now, to make sure the colors work, I will
Use the Magic Wand tool (M) to select all the bits that make up the boy, and then copy them (Ctrl-C)
Select all the bits that make up the girl, and paste them to the new layer, Ctrl-V
Now I will start by making them blue
RMB, M, make sure the layer is highlighted, then use Shift-LMB, I to fill with color
Now I will make the colors of the baby orange
RMB, M, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V
Now I will make the girl's clothes yellow
RMB, M, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V
Here is a GIF of the baby character's clothes:
Image of baby in blue color
The next step is to make them all the same color (using the Magic Wand, as mentioned above).
RMB, M, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C
To make the child, the same, and everything else the same, too, you can select all the objects in the top layer, and
Ctrl-C, and then paste them all to the new layer (Ctrl-V)
Ctrl-C, and then paste them all to the new layer (Ctrl-V)
or you can use the color picker. To do that, you need to select the top layer first, and then click on the color picker icon in the top right corner:
Then choose the color you want:
Ctrl-C, and then paste them all to the new layer (Ctrl-V)
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