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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook

You're reading from   Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook 109 recipes to create scalable vector graphics with Inkscape

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849512664
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Creating and Editing Objects FREE CHAPTER 2. Editing Colors 3. Speeding Up Your Workflow 4. Creating and Editing Clones 5. Live Path Effects 6. Extensions 7. SVG Filters 8. Putting it All Together 9. Raster and Almost Raster 10. Web Graphics Preparation 11. SVG in Websites 12. Draw Freely

Creating a woven straw mat


In this recipe we will create and apply a special texture to an artistic composition of shapes, in order to produce the image of a woven straw mat. We will generate the texture from a primitive and then apply filter effects to it to change the overall look. Finally we will decorate our map with the artistic rendition of a woven flower.

This is a good example on how Inkscape can produce an elaborate drawing in a relatively small number of steps.

How to do it...

The following steps will show how to create a woven straw mat:

  1. 1. Open the Document Properties (Shift + Ctrl + D) and set the document background color to very dark brown by entering 221e11ff into the RGBA: box on the Background: pop-up.

  2. 2. Select the Rectangle tool (F4 or R) and create a 200 px square by holding Ctrl. Fill it with the color #dbc68c. Create a vertical linear gradient and set the end stop color to #aa8a58. Add more stops and move them to create nice shading transitions.

  3. 3. Apply the Film grain...

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