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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You’ve probably seen Photoshop prompts that ask you whether or not you’d like to rasterize your text, shapes or layers. Hard to give Photoshop an answer when you don’t know what rasterizing is, exactly. The Wikipedia article on the topic is unusually unhelpful, stating, “Rasterization or Rasterisation is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (pixels or dots) for output on a video display or printer, or for storage in a bitmap file format.”
Riiight… So let’s see if we can clear that up for all you Photoshoppers.
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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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