InkScape: Complete Training Course for Everyone

Discover the new Welcome Screen (InkScape 1.1 onwards): the Canvas options, the dark theme and the several document templates available.

Let's get a general overview on the Document Properties, the Main Interface and how to customize it properly.

Learn how to customize the full options and features inside InkScape. Find and change basic Shortcuts and export them for your next project.

Understand the most basic shortcuts to navigate around and across your document page and your canvas, very useful when you start drawing.

Draw Rectangles, Ellipses and Arcs, Stars and Polygons and Spirals, with the most useful keys to handle their drawing.

Drop 3D Boxes and make great Perspective by moving finite and infinite Vanishing Points.

Learn how to use the Pen Tool to make curves and segments, as well as all its drawing modes.

Discover the Shape options for each single side you drop with the Freehand tools.

Let's discover the Pencil Tool to draw completely freehand curves or simple dots. Also take control of the curve smoothness and take advantage of the Live Path Effect.

Drop realistic curves with the Calligraphic Tool and discover all its options, from Width to Mass and Tremor. Make your own brush style and save it in the brush list.

Show Rulers, create Guides from these and learn how to get the most from the drawing aids. You will also see how to extract Guides from Shapes and 3D Boxes you have made.

Turn ON/OFF drawing modes, enable and disable Snappings to Boxes, Objects and drawing aids. Edit their options in detail and learn how to use the Split Modes to ease your drawing.

Learn how to use the Select Tool to transform objects and move, scale, rotate and skew them. In addition you will see how to make copies or clones from an object.

In this lecture you will see how to use the Tool Controls bar to refine any object properties.

See how to use the Node Tool on regular shapes, stars and spirals.

Get your best customized shapes on freehand paths with the Node tool. Understand how to edit existing curves with handles, the different kinds of nodes and how to manage the Calligraphic brushes. Get in touch with the advanced options of the Node Tool.

Learn how to apply outstanding path effects to edit, distort or extract a completely new shape from your actual one. We will also see how to manage these with their proper panel.

Here we will see how to use the Eraser Tool and how this can be useful to refine shapes in no time.

In this lecture we will see the Fill and Stroke dialog and how fill and stroke are applied to shapes, paths, Calligraphic brushes and special Shape modes.

Learn how to apply flat uniform colors and understand the color codes. Discover the several methods to pick and apply colors (eyedropper, FIll tool) and add Blur and Opacity to your object.

Apply amazing linear, radial and mesh gradients to your objects and learn how to save the custom gradients made.

Discover how to apply default and custom Patterns and how to use the Swatches to create color palettes.

See how to customize strokes in color and style and how to paste fill and stroke properties from an object to another.

Understand what the Markers are and how to get the best on diagrams and graphs by using both the Markers and the Connectors. Use custom Markers and adjust their visibility with Order.

Understand the Filters tab and what Filters are. Create a new Filter on your own and customize it.

In this lecture you get all the basics to perform selections and deselections, understanding why these are important to perform modifications on multiple objects and save lots of time.

Learn what Layers are and why these differ from your Object canvas. Understand the Layer and the Objects panel, create new layers and see how to hide or lock these while working. Also see how to manage objects that overlap.

See what groups are and why these differ from Layers. Understand how to enter and exit from group levels and how to add or remove further objects from the Objects panel.

Get to know the auto-alignment and arrange tools and all the boolean operations collected under the Path tab. See the importance of the object position fo the correct result of the boolean operation.

Learn how to clip and mask objects, the difference between these two and how to come back to original objects.

Enable the Tweak tool to distribute, edit and manipulate a single or multiple objects by brushing over these. Whereas switch to the Spray tool to brush any object(s) by pasting copies, clones or a unified path.

Learn the difference between Normal and Framed Text, the first one suitable for quick annotations and titles and the second one for longer paragraphs and notes respecting a delimited area.

Set any text property: its font family, style, size up to distribution, spacing and kerning. Set font color and apply any contour with the Fill and Stroke panel.

Understand how to match the text baseline with a custom path or object contour or include longer paragraphs into a shape, learning how to manage the unwanted path or shape the best.

Learn the basics of how to make fully customized and original text to give your own style and touch to your drawing and manage correctly the group resulted from the process.

In this lecture we are going to take a look at the SVG Font Editor in few and easy steps to start making your own font family, character per character!

Let's see how to import images on InkScape, including advanced techniques to save size and hardware resources as well as share your document in the correct manner without getting missing images.

The way to manage images is not different than standard vectors, we will show here some examples. To correctly follow these demonstrations, you shall have followed most of the course. You will also see how to save images off your document and how to apply nice bitmap effects!

Transform images into vectors with Trace Bitmap, understanding the different scan options you have to choose the best one according to your purpose and image complexity.

Set all the options of the Document Properties panel for a correct export. You can also use the immediate Page Tool to act directly on the canvas and create more document pages. Finally, learn how to save your document and all of its pages.

Learn how to save (or autosave) your progress into an InkScape SVG. Also take a look at the different SVG file options in order to choose the best one case by case.

Understand the PDF format and all the options to export properly, including how to save text, handle visual effects, resolution and also see how to export single objects if needed.

Let's review the Export dialog and discover how we can use it to extract selections, pages, objects as well as their file format, including PNG to save transparency. We will also see how to save time with Batch Exporting.

Do you know that your InkScape project is described by a code? Here you discover how you can edit the native SVG code, very useful in case you want to export your drawings to the web.

See how to trigger events by acting on objects through a web browser by using common JavaScript codes!