This tutorial is meant to give absolute beginners a detailed understanding of using and applying colors and gradients in Inkscape, and the different options available to you when working with object color. This tutorial goes very slowly, and covers basics, so if you’re above beginner-intermediate level, this will probably bore you to tears.
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It’s my personal opinion that silver is one of the hardest materials to faithfully render in any vector program. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a neat – and fairly easy – technique for creating a basic embossed silver jewelry-style effect.
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In keeping with the technophile tradition of finding ever-more-convenient ways to perform already-way-too-easy tasks, I’ve put together a quick list of 10 super-useful keyboard shortcuts for navigating around Inkscape.
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Level: Intermediate-Advanced This guide will show you the basics of creating various gemstones in Inkscape. In this tutorial, I’ll be doing emeralds, but you can choose your own shape and color – the principle is the same for any faceted stone.
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Everyone does a “how to make a glossy button” post, but I’m less interested in “how to make a glossy button” than the differences between the two common types of Web 2.0 buttons around these days, the first being Matte buttons, which are more often used on subdued and corporate sites, the second being gloss buttons, which add a bit of bling to most any page.
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