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May 9, 2008

Weekend Tutorials

Filed under: General, Inkscape — Jude @ 11:34 am

It’s Friday, I’m feeling a bit lazy so today I’m just going to point you in the direction of some interesting Inkscape tutorials that you might want to take a look at over the weekend.

I have some major bug fixing to do on one of my other sites but will prepare some shiny new tutorials for next week!

Illustrating Tomato is a nice tutorial from kalaalog.com. It’s not so much the tomatoes I find interesting, but the technique of first hand drawing them and then making shapes around the drawing. Gives a nice hand-drawn finish.

Inkscape Docs Interpolate Tutorial - if you haven’t got this far through the Inkscape documentation take a look at this well-written tutorial on interpolate. It’s a very cool tool in inkscape for morphing from one shape or colour to another.

Gradients to Path is such a simple yet brilliant idea. A really easy way to make a gradient or abstract shape using markers on a line.

3D Text by Nicu is an easy to follow tutorial on getting an embossed look on text using the blur filter. Could work well with non-text objects too.

That should keep you going until next week when I’ll be concentrating on some fairly heavy going GIMP tutorials on photo restoration. Have a great weekend!

2 Comments »

  1. Sometimes we can’t help it but feel bored and lost in our work. Whenever I feel that I usually find interesting work from other people to inspire me… Great link :-)

    Comment by Mchilly — May 15, 2008 @ 2:35 am

  2. Ooo! Not sure how I missed it for a week. :) Thanks for the link back.

    That ‘Gradients to Path’ is a great find. Would be great for abstract works and as a compositional element in intricate vector illustrations.

    Comment by Vyoma — May 15, 2008 @ 6:54 am

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