Inkscape Tutorial - Interesting Bitmap Emphasis Technique.

[dansrzmama]

Your tutorials are the best!!! Thank you for making them! :)

[be2be4u]

Thank you for your tutorials they are the best I have found. I seem to lose the gradient effect though when moving the final image. The “Text” button you built looks great until I try to move it to another location on the page. What am I missing. Also my I'm having trouble publishing to other documents. Do you offer a tutorial for these issues?

[tutor4u]

@be2be4u

To allow the gradient to move you need to the press the "Transform Gradients" button on the toolbar. This is the 3rd button in the section titled "Affect." Alternately, you can go to the "File->Inkscape Preferences" menu and then select "Transforms" in the left column. Then on the right, select the checkbox for "Transform gradients." This should help.

[FristOneStoned]

@tutor4u Your Tutorials are amazing! I watch tutorials all the time, but the way you speak is so clear by far the best i seen ya ! keep it up ! I don't use inkscape so match as i use photoshop CS5, but your video's every time i watch makes me wan a learn !

[pinkylove2281]

Great Video ..I have only one question..lol when your done how do you save this file?

[tutor4u]

@pinkylove2281

First select the image that you want to save. Then select "Export Bitmap" from the "File" menu. Enter the bitmap size and the file name and then press the export button. The image will be saved as a png file.

[pinkylove2281]

OK thats what I did orginally but when i opened file i saw the color part and not the penicl part it was very faint is there any other way to save this so i dont lose the rest of the picture?.. thanks again for all your help!

[tutor4u]

@pinkylove2281

I am not aware of another method for saving files. It might be helpful if you make the pencil portion darker before saving the file. You can look at the reply, below, that I gave to "TheDebsp." Hopefully this will help.

[ebblyn]

Oh, one other question on Trace Bitmap. When I trace it, it freezes and I'm assuming it's tracing the whole page and not just the pencil drawing on the page, so I check the box 'remove background' - nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

[tutor4u]

@ebblyn

If your bitmap image is very large then it can take a really long time for a trace bitmap to work. It's possible that the program is not frozen but instead is just taking a long time. The 'remove background' check box only removes a single layer and so I would not expect it to speed up the processes too much.

[ebblyn]

Can I change a flat picture drawing to a 3D type drawing? To explain further, I've drawn a jewelry design with the old fashion pen and paper, then I scanned it, then I 'Trace Bitmap' onto Inkscape, but I want it to be a 3D drawing and can I enter/type in specific measurements of each section for a manufacturing company to produce.... Can Inkscape do this? If not, can you recommend a free software? Thanks again for all the tutorial, hope you do more of Inkscape!

[tutor4u]

@ebblyn

Inkscape wasn't designed as a 3D tool but you can use a free program named Blender. You can find it at blender dot org. However, I'm not sure if blender can be used for manufacturing. You may need to contact some manufacturers to find out what formats they support.

[cuteeverything]

Very interesting! Thanks a lot for the video!

[juliewalters74]

This was fabulous! very easy to follow!!!

[TheDebsp]

Thanks very much for your help. I'm still a newbie at using Inkscape so I don't yet know all the cool things it does! I shall try out your suggestion and see how it turns out. Thanks, again.

[TheDebsp]

What a great video! I've tried it and it's come out well, except that I'd prefer to have the pencil background a little darker. Is there anyway, that I could achieve this?

[tutor4u]

@TheDebsp

Instead of selecting Filters->Image effects->Pencil you could try selecting Extensions->Raster->Charcoal. Then you can experiment with the Radius and Sigma settings. Maybe start with Radius=0.1 and Sigma=1.0. You will probably loose a little detail but it should be darker.

[jeanieGS]

I'd really love to master this program. There are so many cool things that can be done. I have all sorts of ideas for digital scrapbooking that this would be great for! Thanks for the tutorial.

[Chaoscat47]

Nice tutorial. It's given me an idea.

[whitneysomething]

Hi I am a fashion student and the field requires that I create technical fashion flats on Adobe illustrator but I cant afford that software. I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how to create them on Inkscape. I already tried and they look horrible. If you need an example of what a flat looks like, there is a lot of Google images of them. This request will be greatly appropriated.

Thanks, Whitney

[antoniocastan]

Gracias, muy buen video

[jackal88k]

wow grade vid hope 2 c see more video like this

[audrey07cute]

Great vid!!

[6jeremyg6]

really cool, thanks!

[TheWrackman]

Thanks for a great video !!

[radiovan1]

Very informative, as always - a pleasure to watch and learn.