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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 rollover images


In this recipe we will create an image to use in a rollover effect when hovering over a button. We will use the button design from the previous recipe and create two more design variations to serve as hover and active button states.

How to do it...

The following steps will demonstrate the creation of rollover images:

  1. 1. Open the CSSslidingDoorsShadow.svg file accompanying this chapter.

  2. 2. Change the Display mode to Outline (Ctrl + 5), select the button and the rectangle from Step 17 in the previous recipe, and copy them (Ctrl + C). Create a new document (Ctrl + N), turn on the Grid (#), place the mouse cursor near the top center of the page and paste (Ctrl + V). The objects will be pasted snapping to the grid so we don't need to adjust their position. Save the file (Ctrl + S).

  3. 3. Change the Display mode to Normal (Ctrl + 5).

  4. 4. Zoom in on the left button part. Select the group that holds the button, duplicate it (Ctrl + D) and move down while holding Ctrl, and let it...

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