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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Illustrating shadows with Inkscape |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 7:44 am |
| Tags: Shadow, Inkscape, Tutorial, Basic, Illustration |
| do we illustrate a shadow in Inkscape.The basic method is duplicate the subject to create the shadow, give it a grey color and decrease its opacity. Then do the transforms like skew, stretch and move. What transforms and how much you need to perform depend on the properties of source of light,subject and surface that you saw earlier. For 2D image |
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| Design a Brilliant cut Diamond with Inkscape |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 8:02 am |
| Tags: Deviantart, Inkscape, Diamond |
| Brilliant cut is one of the most popular diamond cuts. It consists of 58 facets, 33 on the crown (topview) and 25 on the pavillion(bottomview). I was thinking of illustrating it and got a pretty decent Diamond. Have a look at it.A diamond by ~rockraikar on deviantARTI just thought of sharing how to draw this. I have two png files at |
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| Inkscaping a Globe with latitude, longitudes. |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 7:55 am |
| Tags: Inkscape, Tutorial |
| I wanted to have a globe with those latitudes & longitudes on it.I was doing it manually earlier by duplicating and resizing, but there's the clone tool to do that easily. Here is a tutorial on how to do a simple globe with latitude/longitude. I have a very bad color sense so you can surely do a better job with colors. :)Here is what we can |
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| Fascinating Bezier curves... |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 7:47 am |
| Tags: Inkscape, Bezier Curve |
| working with Inkscape, this tutorial gives you the basic idea of editing bezier curves. Illustrating complex objects needs some mastery of bezier curves.Here's an understanding my mind has about bezier curves.Each bezier curve has two end points (p1 and p2) and two control points (c1 and c2).Control line is line joining control |
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| Illustrating 3D looking objects in Inkscape (Basic) |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 8:24 am |
| Tags: Inkscape, Tutorial |
| Illustrating objects to give it a 3D look requires a few transforms, unions, differences & most importantly the gradient. Here is a simple circle you can draw. The technique used here applies only for basic shapes and that too for particular orientations.Only 3 objects is all you need to get this cool 3D looking ring.here are the steps:step1: |
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| Text effects using Inkscape in 15 seconds... |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 8:05 am |
| Tags: Inkscape, Tutorial, Text Effects |
| these Simple text effects in Inkscape:1) 3D effect2) perpective shadow3) reflection on floor4) glow5) drop shadowThis isn't a tutorial, its just what I did to get these basic text effects.3D effect:a) Using text tool write your name. Its better if you choose a bold font. Select a dark color for the fill and no stroke.b) Now duplicate this |
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| Illustrating rainbow with Tiled clones tool in Inkscape. |
| Published: January 5, 2008, 3:55 pm |
| Tags: Vector, Inkscape, Tutorial, Illustration |
| Rainbow with Clone tool in Inkscape.Rainbow and clouds.. by ~rockraikar on deviantARTAfter some gap, I'm back again. This post is about drawing a rainbow. There are actually two ways you can do it. One is by creating a rainbow color gradient and fill a semi-circle with it. The other is by using the tiled clones tool. Tiled clones happens to be |
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| Playing with Gradient |
| Published: February 23, 2008, 2:17 pm |
| Tags: Gimp, Inkscape, Basic, Gradient |
| gradients between Gimp & Inkscape is simple.To import Inkscape gradient into Gimp, just place the SVG file containing the gradient into the gimp gradients folder and refresh the Gradient dialog. The gradients will be imported and you can see them in the gradients dialog.To import Gimp gradient into Inkscape, you just need to drag and drop the |
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| Libre Graphics Meeting 08, Plea for support |
| Published: April 2, 2008, 11:29 am |
| Tags: Open Source, Blender, Gimp, Gnome Foundation, Inkscape, Krita, Libre Graphics, Open Clipart Library, Scribus |
| The organizers of the 3rd Annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) 2008 in Poland are making an urgent plea to raise $20,000 to pay for conference expenses and travel of open source developers so they may attend and have a productive face-to-face conference. The funds are critical to keep the momentum... Visit the site for the rest of the story! |
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| Playing with Gradient |
| Published: February 23, 2008, 2:17 pm |
| Tags: Gimp, Inkscape, Basic, Gradient |
| gradients between Gimp & Inkscape is simple.To import Inkscape gradient into Gimp, just place the SVG file containing the gradient into the gimp gradients folder and refresh the Gradient dialog. The gradients will be imported and you can see them in the gradients dialog.To import Gimp gradient into Inkscape, you just need to drag and drop the |
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| Illustrating rainbow with Tiled clones tool in Inkscape. |
| Published: January 5, 2008, 3:55 pm |
| Tags: Vector, Inkscape, Tutorial, Illustration |
| Rainbow with Clone tool in Inkscape.Rainbow and clouds.. by ~rockraikar on deviantARTAfter some gap, I'm back again. This post is about drawing a rainbow. There are actually two ways you can do it. One is by creating a rainbow color gradient and fill a semi-circle with it. The other is by using the tiled clones tool. Tiled clones happens to be |
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| Illustrating shadows with Inkscape |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 7:44 am |
| Tags: Shadow, Inkscape, Tutorial, Basic, Illustration |
| do we illustrate a shadow in Inkscape.The basic method is duplicate the subject to create the shadow, give it a grey color and decrease its opacity. Then do the transforms like skew, stretch and move. What transforms and how much you need to perform depend on the properties of source of light,subject and surface that you saw earlier. For 2D image |
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| Design a Brilliant cut Diamond with Inkscape |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 8:02 am |
| Tags: Deviantart, Inkscape, Diamond |
| Brilliant cut is one of the most popular diamond cuts. It consists of 58 facets, 33 on the crown (topview) and 25 on the pavillion(bottomview). I was thinking of illustrating it and got a pretty decent Diamond. Have a look at it.A diamond by ~rockraikar on deviantARTI just thought of sharing how to draw this. I have two png files at |
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| Inkscaping a Globe with latitude, longitudes. |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 7:55 am |
| Tags: Inkscape, Tutorial |
| I wanted to have a globe with those latitudes & longitudes on it.I was doing it manually earlier by duplicating and resizing, but there's the clone tool to do that easily. Here is a tutorial on how to do a simple globe with latitude/longitude. I have a very bad color sense so you can surely do a better job with colors. :)Here is what we can |
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| Fascinating Bezier curves... |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 7:47 am |
| Tags: Inkscape, Bezier Curve |
| working with Inkscape, this tutorial gives you the basic idea of editing bezier curves. Illustrating complex objects needs some mastery of bezier curves.Here's an understanding my mind has about bezier curves.Each bezier curve has two end points (p1 and p2) and two control points (c1 and c2).Control line is line joining control |
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