Tutorials and help

2007-09-15T00:01:43Z

Ahardon: /* Unofficial tutorials */

==Tutorial targets for future releases==
[http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialUpdates-0.46 0.46 dev cycle]

== Unofficial tutorials ==

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[[Image:Quickguide.png]] 
Name: [http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53832833/ Quick Guide to Inkscape] 
Overview: This is a great consise quick guide for getting started with inkscape.
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[[Image:Icons_in_Inkscape.png]] 
Name: [http://www.deviantart.com/view/14703295/ Icon Creation (Mini-Tutorial)] 
Overview: A quick little tutorial demonstrating the design process in creating an SVG icon in inkscape. The finished product of this tutorial is actually in the [http://openclipart.org Open Clip Art Library ]
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[[Image:Orb-tutorial-thumb.png]] 
Name: [http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/simple-bubble-in-inkscape-orb-ball-bubble/ Simple Bubble/Orb in inkscape] 
Overview: A tutorial that demonstrates the use of the blur filter and clipping to create a simple bubble or orb.
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[[Image:Inkscape overview tut thumb.png]] 
Name: [http://members.gamedev.net/trapperzoid/ia/inkscape_introduction.html inkscape interface tutorial] 
Overview: A detailed tutorial that descibes the inkscape user interface in detail and explains how they can be used for creating cartoony art.
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[[Image:3d-beveltext-thumb.png]] 
Name: [http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/24/ 3d like text effect in inkscape] 
Overview: A tutorial that demonstrates a technique to create text with a bevelled edge effect.
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[[Image:Slime_tutorial_thumnail.png]] 
Name: [http://members.gamedev.net/trapperzoid/ia/tutorial_slime.html slime to start] 
Overview: A detailed tutorial that shows the reader how to draw a simple cartoony slime creature using inkscape. This tutorial also provides great detail on the thought and development process that is used for basic character development.
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[[Image:Starfish_tutorial_thumb.png]] 
Name: [http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/01/11/tutorial-a-starfish-with-inkscape/ a starfish with inkscape] 
Overview: a simple tutorial that shows how to make a simple starfish in inkscape. great for inkscape "newbies"
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[[Image:Starburst_tut_thumb.jpg]] 
Name: [http://foreach.awardspace.com/random/inkscape-two.html Sun background with inkscape] 
Overview: A tutorial that demonstrates the technique of creating the "starburst" effect using inkscape.
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[[Image:Eye_tut_thumbnail.png]] 
Name: [http://www.wisetome.com/splat/2007/02/01/11-step-tutorial-to-create-eyeball-vector-art 11 Step Tutorial To Create Eyeball Vector Art] 
Overview: A tutorial that shows the process to create an eyeball in inkscape.
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[[Image:Ball_tut_thumbnail.png]] 
Name: [http://www.wisetome.com/splat/2006/12/13/10-step-tutorial-to-create-shiny-ball-vector-art/ 10 step tutorial to create shinyball vector art] 
Overview: a tutorial that shows you how to create a shiny little ball using inkscape.
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[[Image:inkscape_fonts.png]] 
Name: [http://inkscape.teekoo.com/index.php?select=kid Kiddy Font and Tigger Font Tutorial] 
Overview: a tutorial on how to create interesting font effects with the help of Inkscape.
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[[Image:Graph-tut-thumbnail.png]] 
Name: [http://trinifar.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/creating-graphs-with-inkscape/ Graphs in Inkscape] 
Overview: a tutorial on how to create accurate line graphs in Inkscape.
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[[Image:spring.png]] 
Name: [http://inkscape.teekoo.com/index.php?select=spring It is spring time] 
Overview: a simple tutorial that shows how to make use of
"tiled clone" with tracing.
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[[Image:Furboa_head.png]] 
Name: [http://www.glitchnyc.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/technology/opensource/furboa_tutoria.phblox Furboa-Tutorial] 
Overview: Learn how to create a cute little cartoony animal in inkscape. The test subject in this case is a cute little guy named Furboa.
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[[Image:Box.png]] 
Name: [http://inkscape.teekoo.com/index.php?select=box 3D Box] 
Overview: How to make perspective 3D boxes.
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[[Image:tc_bar.png]] 
Name: [http://inkscape.teekoo.com/index.php?select=bar How far can a bar go?] 
Overview: a tile clone tutorial that shows how to make use of
Rotation, Shift, and Color.
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=== English ===
* [http://70.24.158.31:8080/inktut.php Making Icons] (en)
* http://programmer-art.org/inkscape currently down video-tutorials planned. (en)
* [http://www.glitchnyc.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/technology/opensource/furboa_tutoria.phblox Furboa-Tutorial] (en)
* [http://www.deviantart.com/view/14703295/ Icon Creation], devianart.com-mini-Tutorial, without text
* [http://www.artcamilla.dk/vaultage/articles/the6502s/articles-gimp/cartoon-effects-1/article.html Cartoon Effekt]] Inkscape and Gimp (en)
* [http://linuxcult.com/?m=show&id=272 Glossy Triangle (sodipodi)]
* [http://www.sitepoint.com/article/create-xp-style-icons article about how to create Icons] (en)
* [http://www.closing-gaps.org/tutorial-ink1.htm Tutorial for product illustration using Inkscape.] (en)
* [http://jimmac.musichall.cz/demos/inkscape/key-status.avi Video about Inkscape], avi
* [http://le-radar.com/?articles/drawinginkscapeEn Beginner tutorial] (en)
* [http://popolon.org/inkscape/?sub=blogtutorial List of tutorials] (en)
* [http://members.gamedev.net/trapperzoid/ia/index.html Inkscape Adventures] by Trapper Zoid
* [http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/01/11/tutorial-a-starfish-with-inkscape/ A Starfish with Inkscape] (en) in two parts.
* [http://inkscape.teekoo.com/ Inkscape in Six Steps] by Jingshao Chen
* [http://choupil.blogspot.com/ Inkscape isometrics and tutorials] by Choupil

=== de ===
* [http://inkscape-forum.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=3&page=1#Item_0 Silhouette-tutorial] inkscape-forum.de, (de)
* [http://inkscape-forum.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=6&page=1#Item_0 Glassbutton-tutorial] inkscape-forum.de, (de)
* [http://shirts.gleichjetzt.de/Vektorisieren_mit_Inkscape Vektorisieren mit Inkscape] shirts.gleichjetzt.de, (de)
* [http://www.primfaktor.de/index.php?section=tutorials Farbverläufe (Video)] primfaktor.de, (de)
* [http://www.primfaktor.de/index.php?section=tutorials Sterne und Polygone (Video)] primfaktor.de, (de)

=== fr ===
* [http://popolon.org/gblog2/comment-faire-une-illustration-de-a-a-z-avec-inkscape Comment faire une illustration de A à Z avec inkscape.] (fr), same as above
*[http://le-radar.com/?articles/drawinginkscape Pour grands débutants] (fr)
* [http://popolon.org/inkscape/?sub=didacticielblog Liste des didacticiels du blog] de Popolon (fr)
*[http://www.inkscape-fr.org/spip.php?rubrique2 Liste des didacticiels en français du site inkscape-fr] (fr).
*[http://ticeblog.ycombe.net/index.php/2007/07/17/98-calligrammes-avec-inkscapev Caligrammes avec Inkscape] (fr)

=== it ===
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/colorare/index.htm Simulare l'uso del secchiello] (it)
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/logo_ati_I/index.htm Il logo ATi con Inkscape - Parte I] (it)
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/logo_ati_II/index.htm Il logo ATi con Inkscape - Parte II] (it)
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/logo_ati_III/index.htm Il logo ATi con Inkscape - Parte III] (it)
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/vettorializzare_I/index.htm Vettorializzare un'immagine (es.pratico)] (it)
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/unire_tracciati/index.htm Unire tracciati differenti] (it)
*[http://inkscape.altervista.org/tutorials/creare_ingranaggi/index.htm Come creare semplici ingranaggi] (it)

=== pl ===
*[http://www.inf.sgsp.edu.pl/lab/filmiki/filmiki.php Video tutorials / Filmiki szkoleniowe] (pl)

=== pt_BR ===
*[http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/Tutoriais Vários Tutoriais da comunidade Inkscape Brasil] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.imasters.com.br/artigo/3500/livre/inkscape_brilho_luz_e_vida_aos_logos Brilho, Luz e Vida aos logos] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.rau-tu.unicamp.br/nou-rau/softwarelivre/document/?code=172&tid=6 Criando a logo do Ubuntu] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.imasters.com.br/artigo/4159/livre/criando_personagens Criando Personagens] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.rau-tu.unicamp.br/nou-rau/softwarelivre/document/?code=143&tid=6 Manual Desenho Vectorial do Inkscape] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.rau-tu.unicamp.br/nou-rau/softwarelivre/document/?code=158&tid=6 Manual do inkscape 0.40] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.rau-tu.unicamp.br/nou-rau/softwarelivre/document/?code=157&tid=6 Utilização de Imagens SVG em Páginas Web] (pt_BR)
*[http://www.allanbrito.com/2007/08/06/tutorial-inkscape-interface/ Introdução a interface do Inkscape] (pt_BR)

=== zh_CN ===
*[http://popolon.org/inkscape/?sub=blogjiaoyu 一些中文Inkscape教育]

=== Screen casts ===
* [http://www.hardon.co.il/alma/ Drawing a simple woman face] (video)

== Outside Tutorials and Tips ==
* [http://collou.f2o.org/inkspot/ Spotcolors!] Tutorial to create spotcolor separations using Inkscape
* [http://popolon.org/gblog2/made-business-cards-easily-with-inkscape Make business cards easily with Inkscape] short tutorial and 85×54mm SVGz templates provided [http://popolon.org/gblog2/categorie/didacticiel/didacticiel-graphique/didacticiel-inkscape/ more Inkscape tutorials] are available
* [http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php A Guide to Inkscape] by Tavmjong Bah
* [http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Inkscape?flav=php Stopped Clock Blog] Has some good Flash tutorials & other Inkscape writings
* [http://www.deviantart.com/view/14703295/ Icons in Inkscape - mini-tut] by Daj
* [http://www.glitchnyc.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/technology/opensource/furboa_tutoria.phblox Tutorial: A Simple Approach to Drawing Complex Characters With Inkscape]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/mi/kevincharles/inkscape/index.html Unofficial Inkscape Documentation] a great work-in-progress by Kevin Charles
* [http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape Some Inkscape Know-How], a beginner's guide to creating complex shapes and flowing text into them
* [http://blog.vybiral.info/my_files/helps/tutorial.png Text following a circle's curve]
* [http://www.out-of-order.ca/tutorial/inkscape-tutorial Making Icons With Inkscape] A beginner's guide to creating nice icons in Inkscape by Ben Powers.
* [http://www.coswellproductions.org/digital_minicomic_scanning_pasteup.php Using Free Software to Do Inexpensive Digital Paste-Up] A guide to using The GIMP and Inkscape to paste up pages for minicomics.
* [http://www.coswellproductions.org/cartoons/practical_inkscape_for_comic_artists/right-handed_illustration.html The Right-Handed Illustration Keyboard Layout] A guide aimed at tablet users that want to have a keyboard layout that is better tuned to illustration work.

== Help & helpful articles ==
* [http://le-radar.com/?mm/inkscape Inkscape User manual] (en, fr) or get from user_manual branch of SVN
* [http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/56/Inkscape_Vector_Graphics.pdf Inkscape Vector Graphics] pdf, by Peter Kreussel (en)
* [http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/05/053-inkscape/ Inkscape Vector Graphics], by Peter Kreußel (de), same as above
* [http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2183007&postcount=13 How to draw an arrow or line with marker with Inkscape 0.45] (en)
* [http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Inkscape?flav=php art-weblog with inkscape-category] (en)
* [http://blog.die-scheiss-kiste.de/wordpress/index.php?cat=4 Andy's weblog with inkscape-category] (de)
* [http://popolon.org/gblog2/categorie/didacticiel/didacticiel-graphique/inkscape-tutorial/ Popolongraphical Blog] (fr, en)
* [http://inkscape.le-radar.com Cours Inkscape, by Cédric GEMY (pygmee)] (fr)
* [http://www.archive.org/download/Inkscape_Path_Tutorial/inkscapePaths.swf Flashvideo about drawing with the pen-tool and Bezier curves] (en)
* [http://www.archive.org/download/Inkscape_Gradient_Tutorial/gradient.swf Flashvideo about creating gradients] (en)
* [http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape some annotations about "Flowing Text, Portable SVG Files & Producing A4-pdf-files] (en)
* [http://www.rau-tu.unicamp.br/nou-rau/softwarelivre/document/?down=158 Portugese Inscape Manual] zipped svg (0.40)] (pt)
* [http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/5757/5/ Inkscape: Vector Graphics For Linux] Rob, Reilly (en)
* [http://www.sketchpad.net/drawing2.htm Bezier Curves And The Different Kinds Of Anchor Points] (en)
* [http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/08/1835253.shtml?tid=131&tid=130&tid=132| article about inkscape], Bruce Byfield (en)
* [http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/features/inkscape/ Creating vector graphics with Inkscape] by Rosanna Yuen, redhat.com (en)

== Creating New Tutorials ==
Easy way:
# Load up one of the existing tutorials
# Replace its text and images with your own
# Upload it to the [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=93438&atid=604308 Patch Tracker]. Make SURE to click the "Upload and Attach a File" checkbox!

Official way:
# Create a DocBook XML file like the [http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/doc-docbook/trunk/basic/tutorial-basic.xml?view=markup Basic Tutorial DocBook]
# Follow directions in the tutorial directory [http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/doc-docbook/trunk/README?view=markup README] for formatting and handling of embedded non-SVG images
# Create a subdirectory in the [http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/doc-docbook/trunk/ doc-docbook] module and place the new tutorial docbook file there
# Test tutorial generation using the `make-html`, `make-svg`, and `make-all` scripts
# Announce the availability of the new tutorial

== Tutorial Ideas ==
This section will consist of brainstorming and basic development of new tutorials that will be useful for new/old users.

=== Completed Tutorials ===

* [http://home.programmer-art.org/?page=inkscape Daniel Taylor's Web-Based Inkscape Tutorials] - Hopefully he will make SVG tutorials that we can inlude with Inkscape, like our current [[DefaultTutorial]].
* making shiny marbles... http://inkscape.org/wiki_uploads/marbles_tut.svg
* also see [http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OtherProjects#outsidetut Outside Tutorials and Tips]
* [[ElementsPrinciplesOfDesign]] (rejon)
* [http://kargs.net/docs/easter_egg_tutorial.svg Easter Egg Tutorial]

=== Tutorials in development ===

* [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/reinhard.stepanek/fxos80/metchart.html How to create meteorological charts with Inkscape], Tutorial by Reinhard Stepanek
* Daniel Pope's Clownfish Tutorial - [http://www.mauveweb.co.uk/misc/tutorials/clownfish.svg Part 1] [http://www.mauveweb.co.uk/misc/tutorials/clownfish2.svg Part 2] - drop me an email at mauve@mauveweb.co.uk to suggest changes.
* A very small sheet with instructions for doing [http://www.gimpforum.de/album/file.php?n=4323&w=o isometric transformations] - if anyone has comments or wants to have a look at the original svg, contact me at daniel dot hornung <at> gmx dot de (this is useful for e.g. icon work, see [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/BluecurveIconGuidelines Bluecurve Icon Guidelines])
* [http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape Coofer Cat's Inkscape Page] - Some miscellaneous meanderings with Inkscape. There are a few hints and tips that might be of use to the less experienced Inkscape user. There are also a few random bits of clipart too.

=== Planned Tutorials ===

* [[UsingTheCloneTiler]] - Clones

* Text and Typography

* Clippath/Mask/Pattern

* Effects

* SVG Filters

* XML Editor

=== Tutorial Scratchpad ===

* How to create an icon
* How to build a presentation using Inkview.
* How to build complex shapes using boolean operations.
* How to use Inkscape to create graphics for LaTeX / ConTeXt documents.
* etc

A tutorial in progress of writing by John Griessen

This writing is a journal of how a project to recreate a business card originally
made with Illutrator 7, after losing the original file, so the comparison to Illustrator is
much from memory and not to be taken as the last word, but a guide as to how the programs compare.

Attached is a png of the printed business card:

It originally was a collection of paths filled with colors and text objects with grouping to
make replicating some objects easy.

The shell command '$inkscape --version' tells us this is Inkscape 0.39cvs (Jul 2 2004) .

The logo main element is a pseudo sine wave, and I made it before with grid snap and stretching and replicating, so now I set my units to mm and grid spacing and snap to 1 and remember how it would be nice to have major and minor grids instead of just one, so I want to create some vertical guides evenly spaced and cannot remember and start looking in docs. In Illustrator 7, clicking on the ruler bar created a guide if I recall... Once created, it could be moved with grid snap like any object, so getting it on grid or off was easy. As I read around, I find the usage of guides in "Keys and Mouse" "drag off a ruler" is the way... and a guide is on the page, and I can't snap it to easily make the accurate secondary grid I had wanted....Is there a way to? I try duplicate on the guide, but alas, it is not a regular object... it cannot be selected as they are...so I cannot replicate guides to make other grids after all... note for the beginner, to get bezier curves out of the line/bezier tool, you must click-drag. A click-only will give you only connected straight line segments. I'll have to use lines as guides,
http://home.austin.rr.com/jgriessen/ill2ink-tut1.png

[[Category:Help Wanted]]

=== Other SVG Tutorials ===

* http://www.codeproject.com/books/learnsvgchapter07.asp

Inkscape Wiki - User contributions [en]

Tutorials and help