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10 inkscape tutorials

June 1, 2009

shameless crosspost from inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com =)


With the readership of the inkscape tutorials weblog steadily increasing over the past year, there are many great tutorials deep in the blog archives that newer readers may not have discovered yet. Therefore to celebrate the forthcoming milestone of 1.5 million page views of this site, we have decided to list the top 10 inkscape tutorials that have been featured on the inkscape tutorials blog to date.

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Text and Simple Styling

An awesome tutorial from Troy Sobotka detailing how to create a colourful outset text effect.

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Creating a Business Card Template and Basic Business Card with Inkscape

Create a business card template using inkscape, and learn how to populate it with a simple business card design.

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Shattered, Smashed and Grungy Text in Inkscape

A step by step on creating a smashed and grungy text effect using inkscape..

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Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows the tango! guidelines.

This tutorial provides a detailed how-to on creating a lightbulb icon that uses the tango! icon set guidelines.

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Create an impressive stick man cartoon character / avatar

A super detailed guide to creating a stick man cartoon character using inkscape.

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Draw A Realistic Vector Guitar in Inkscape

In this tutorial, Nick Roberts demonstrates in detail how to illustrate a “Fender Stratocaster” type guitar. The final result is stunning, and the author has detailed the steps superbly with many super useful screen shots.

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Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape

Another detailed and impressive tutorial from the vectortuts website. This tutorial demonstrates how to draw a coffee cup using inkscape.

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How to make RPG map elements with inkscape.

This is a great tutorial on creating RPG map symbols using inkscape. The tutorial outlines a workflow for creating a simple jailhouse RPG element.

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chrome text effect

From the same author as the “Text and Simple Styling tutorial”, Here is a another that demonstrates how to create chrome text effect using inkscape.

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sticker with a folded / dog ear edge

here is a cool tutorial for creating a simple sticker / decal with a folded down edge.

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twitterverse: a diagram

May 31, 2009

twitterverse is a neat little diagram that lists and categorises major twitter apps and services.

[twitterverse] via beth’s blog

Diary of an App Store Reviewer

May 31, 2009

A cute satirical piece from John Gruber on the farce that is the Apple App Store review process.

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Inkscape Business Card Tutorial

May 31, 2009

Here is a tutorial that i whipped up for worldlabel.com (excerpt is from inkcsapetutorials.wordpress.com)

Here is a great tutorial for creating business cards using Inkscape. This tutorial has two main sections.

The first details how to create a printer ready template from a PDF guide using clones and guides. Using clones in this fashion to create a template in inkscape is awesome; once the template is created correctly, the changes that are made to the original populate thoughout the rest of the tempate!

The second section provides a detailed process for creating a basic business card (with a nifty pinstripe background). This portion of the tutorial is a great introduction into basic fill / stroke techniques, pattern fills and text editing and kerning.

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This tutorial is published by worldlabel.com. Worldlabel are quite active over at the open clip art library producing the “Clipart of the Week” and have also donated a substantial amount of public domain clipart to the library.

meh

February 6, 2009

meh. bored. need to post more tutorials to inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com.

bah

RHCT

September 22, 2008

Though not as impressive as all the peoples who are boasting about their RHCE’s, i got my RHCT last week! Woo!

Thanks heaps to demo for being an awesome instructor and making my first certification course fun!

a new blog!

July 16, 2008

just a quick note. my mate mdious now has a blog!!!

http://mdious.wordpress.com/

that is all.

koopa shell street art

July 1, 2008

I got Mariokart wii the other day, so when i saw this driving home one afternoon, i almost came to the conclusion that i have been playing it a bit too much…

:)

Jon Roberts gives us 5 Reasons You’ll Love Fedora 9

April 20, 2008

Jon gives a very nice blog post about the things to look forward to if F9…
Personally I Can’t Wait… :)

Jon Said:
“The first distro to include KDE 4 by default, PackageKit, NetworkManager working CDMA and GSM cards out of the box, support for installing to encrypted partitions, persistent, custom live USB sticks…”

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LGM

April 18, 2008



LGM

Originally uploaded by AndyFitz

andy has already got a start on the art for LGM4, and it is awesome. I can’t make it for LGM3 in wroclaw, so im already hyped for Singapore LGM4!