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Inkscape Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Inkscape Beginner's Guide Create attractive layout designs, logos, brochures, icons, and more using the Inkscape vector graphics editor.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517201
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Vector Graphics FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Opening Inkscape 3. How to Manage Files 4. Creating your First Graphics 5. How to Work with Layers 6. Building Objects 7. Using Paths 8. How to Style Text 9. Using Filters 10. Extensions in Inkscape 11. Working with Images 12. Using the XML Editor A. Where to Find More Information B. Keyboard Shortcuts
C. Glossary of Terms
D. Pop quiz Answers Index

Time for action — vector versus rasterized images

Now we need to figure out what elements go where and which graphic types will work best. Determine what type of graphics each of our design elements should be to best suit our needs (and the design) and make sure we have the files in that format.

  1. Photographs naturally have a lot of colors and gradients, and are often taken in a fixed size from a digital camera. That said, the files are rasterized bitmaps and can be in any number of file formats—including .tif, .jpg, .gif, or .png, and are larger in size. Photographs don't lend themselves to being vector graphics.
    Time for action — vector versus rasterized images
  2. Logos should be portable, so that they can look clean at any size and resolution. The graphics themselves are often simple with less color variation and therefore lend themselves to being vector graphics as opposed to bitmaps. We'll use a graphic-based on one in the Openclipart.org collection, which will be explained later, as an example for a company logo. You can use files of the SVG, AI, or EPS format.
    Time for action — vector versus rasterized images
  3. The company name/title and copy will be text, which is a font and vector graphic. It can still be scaled to accommodate both the boldness of the company name and also be a body copy for the brochure:
    Time for action — vector versus rasterized images

What just happened?

We took each piece of the design puzzle and determined the best file types for each element. We collected our files and got them ready for the design phase, which is up next.

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