Introduction
Most veterans of the computer graphics industry will tell you that the secret to producing high quality visuals doesn't necessarily depend on natural talent.
Rather, it's a matter of planning a strategy and putting dedication and hard work into executing it. No matter how complex, any problem can be fragmented into a set of more digestible parts. Deadlines, the bane of all professionals, are easier to meet if you have your work carefully planned out for you beforehand.
In this chapter, we will introduce and explore some commonly used workflows, which will soon become second nature to us. With time and experience, we will develop our own workflows to deal with new and unexpected situations.
Keyboard shortcuts play an important part of speeding up our activities. So we will mention them often in recipes. The Inkscape developers took great care in providing intuitive keyboard shortcuts, making the easier to remember; for example, * for the Star tool or # for toggling grid visibility...
