Moving and Styling Shapes
So, now we can get into drawing, right? Well, almost. To prepare us for our shape drawing activities, let’s go over some shape basics.
In this chapter, we will learn about shapes in Inkscape, plus how to style them with Fill and Stroke. We’ll then cover how to use the Transform tool to move, rotate, and resize our shapes, and finish this chapter by aligning and distributing our shapes in relation to each other to save us a ton of work.
After all, we want to spend more time drawing, and less time moving things around manually. Fortunately, Inkscape has us covered, as we will soon see.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing shapes in Inkscape
- Using the Select and Transform tool
- Moving shapes
- Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting shapes
- Resizing shapes
- Rotating shapes
- Raising and lowering shapes
- Grouping shapes
- Flipping shapes
