I'm watching some ads to show my appreciation ;) thank you for making these videos short enough to not feel overwhelming, yet packed with great information that really helps! You have a great way of explaining things and it really shows. i downloaded inkscape and was lost, but now I finally have hope.
the button he is talking about at 3:30 is "iconify" it has been removed from the newest version. you can press F12 to hide the dialog box though or you can drag it outside the project and it will create its own window
game changerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!! I mean atleast for me I have been making t shirts for 4 years and I want to get into making svgs. Im so happy I decided to sit down and go video by video. Im 5 videos in and understand way more then I did 40 mins ago thank you so much for this content. YOU EARNED A SUBCRIBER
In these 5 videos you have cleared the fundamentals of using these kinds of softwares as some of the things are same that u use in animation softwares like opentoonz and synfig, and photoshop too
I used to work with adobe products but since it can be expensive and i cant own the software and having difficulty bouncing between old and newer files is a hastle i decided to try out inkscape because its opensourse. Everything feels like a review of stuff i know and i'll get the hang of this soon enough. Your tutorials are quiet useful and easy to grasp. I find that tutorials tend to skip steps and leave the learner confused and left behind. You are very good at this.
Yet another informative Tutorial! I swear I've learned more from 2 of your tut's than I have from the last 3 weeks of putzing around! The White/Alpha background thing was driving me nuts. Thank You so much!!!
First off, I have watched 1-5 of your tutorial videos so far and I like the way you go over the important things that a beginner needs to know, not getting bogged down in the weeds on things that someone with more understanding would understand. But It is funny to listen to your cadence from the beginning of the video compared to the end of the video. Keep up the good work!!! Heading to #6
Lika so many people down below I have also experienced overwhelment, however these tutorials are super helpful to ease right into Inkscape and to slowly but efitiently understand this software. Thank you! :D
TJ, You deserve a lot of credit and every cent they send you for the ads, Im watching them all as well. Just phenomenal information and learning so much. Thanks dude, you are my hero!
Notes from Lesson 4 ⦁ To have objects together, select one of the objects first, then hold down the shift key on your keyboard and select another object. ⦁ You can have as many objects selected as you want using the same procedure. You can then move them, change their colors, size, etc. at once. ⦁ If you click on the Esc key or on any part of the page the objects will be deselected ⦁ To keep the selected objects together, click Object in the menu bar and choose group. The objects will remain together even if you click on an empty space on the page. ⦁ You can also group objects by holding the Ctrl + G in your keyboard. ⦁ To ungroup the objects, select ungroup in the menu bar. ⦁ You can duplicate an object or a group by selecting it and holding Ctrl + D in your keyboard.
Again... Inkscape super hero! I have some designing to do... Tshirts heat transfer to cut out... some metal craft dies to design for both my mom and myself (I literally want to design a soap box for my handmade soaps and have the metal die made.)... wine / mead and beer bottle labels for home brews ect. I have proper sticker material to cut out and put on coffee cups ect. I am nerdy in things like... conventions and D&D... but this kind of software was a thorn in my side. I have found the software for my cameo cutter frustrating and it does not have the EPS I need to get something made. You I am doing all the steps along with you... pause and do... pause and do. For me it works. Thanks again for helping me have the ability to fix this stuff so I can keep on crafting important things.... you know... like beer and character sheets. :D
@@TJFREE Once I get them on the bottles. :D Anything is better than painters tape with stuff written on it. Some of the wine and mead I would like to age a year or so. I think they are "okay" and I will get better in time.
I just found your videos, just wanted to thank you for all the tutorials, I was looking for a simple software to draw some easy vectors, this was really helpful.
I just realized that these tutorials have no ads on it? waw I think it's fine for you to add the ads for these video sir, you deserve well payment for these tutorials, thank you !
After struggling with Xara (which is very tough to use and not intuitive) Inkscape is awesome, your videos on this open source product is really top notch! Thank you!
Thanks, you are my teacher! and also my saver, i was trying to open the "proprieties" without success and after wathing your video I got to know it was there hidden. Thank you very much!!
Suggestion fo everyone: Don't open PNG files using Windows 10's Photos since for some reason it messes up with transparency. Paint simply opens them perfectly
Just wanted to say thanks a lot man. I have never used any vector graphics programs at all, i'm pretty familiar with photoshop and gimp but since i've been learning video game design vector graphics are very important. I searched a few different phrases on youtube to try and find a tutorial explaining how to create a character in inkscape, but all i found were sped up time lapse videos with zero explanation as to what they were doing. fantastic videos! maybe you should consider putting these up on udemy.com i would have paid $10 for this complete course.
Thanks Earl. I really appreciate the feedback! I'm thinking about remaking the Inkscape tutorials even better when Inkscape 1.0 comes out, with an entire written and video course, and sample projects to download. I've looked into building my own site similar to udemy for teaching open source software, but I'm not planning on charging for it.
Based on which version has this video been produced? In my version (1.2.1) the panel of the document properties looks different and does not contain all options you are showing. besides that, congratulation to the videos.
Beside the case when I am designing something for a certain dimension; why should I not just always use the largest preset size (A0)? So I can always downscale it with little quality loss?
I'm wondering why you would have to set the dpi when vector is mathematical and the colour depths are already set in the file. 100% opaque for example. The printer should be able to stretch it to whatever size he wants, right? It should not have to be 36 x 36", right? I think dpi is only for raster art files not in vector format. Right?
Question: I am starting to use a a Spectrum Pro laser printer and wondered if this program will work for that? I am attempting to learn Retina Engrave as well, but this allows me to create an image and import over to Retina Engrave. I am so very new to Laser printing so I have started with just learning how to create my own images to engrave and cut. Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
I agree the lessons are fantastic. One question. I am looking into Inkscape to draw an outline of our entire house using a projector. Then use layering to draw in the windows , gutters , doors etc . Then use another software (that I am researching) to mask and do projection mapping. Will I be able to do this or all of this with Inkscape? Thanks for your input
Thanks for the upload. Unfortunately, I can not get the 'page' tab to remain engaged. The program automatically switches to drawing or selection. I am clueless re the coordinates and how to correct this issue. Happy for some ideas please.
TJ FREE!! You're the best...I spent the weekend watching your videos and feel very confidant now. I still have some issues trying to figure out why I'm not exporting both parts of design together?? Does anyone know if i need to do something besides select them both? Same with using the "difference" tool...I made both things "objects" and hit union...but it doesn't always cut???
Thanks Sue! Sometimes the 'difference' and 'union' tools will not work because one of the paths is actually a group (even if its a single path, it can still be grouped by itself). I run into this issue fairly often, and it may be what's causing your issue.
Sometimes part of your drawing could be off the page or print area, that may exclude part of your drawing too. Also to make sure you get the whole drawing do a full group, 'drag a box around everything to select it then group all of it together' then if some small part is just a little off the page it will be anchored by the whole drawing.
Okay....so...I am kind of confused. I thought one of the big points of having a vector program was that you could export vector images that can be scaled up to as big or as small as you wanted without losing detail. So....whats' with having to tell it pixels or inches or any size for that matter? I thought it was math based, not size based. It seems I might as well just use Photoshop and save it as a PNG from there. I'm new to this kind of program so what I've heard isn't jiving with what I'm learning....
Hi TJ. If I create a poster design to send to a printer - how can I set up print bleed and crop. Say the poster is a4 so page dimensions of 297mm x 210 - if I click render, I only have the 'grids' options showing up, no crop or bleed options. Any idea how to get these options or how to set the poster up with crop marks and print bleed? Thanks!
8:14 Since the program is gonna save a PNG file already, shouldn't the button have to read "Export to..." instead of "Export as..."? Unless we DO have the option to change the file format there as well. Just an observation, though. Very nice tutorials, dude!
If I am going to do some text. How do I do to avoid going over the size of the page. I was making a sign that is 29 x 25 cms. How do I prevent my text from going over the size of the page I defined.?
Omg you helped me understand what I was doing so much more. Thank you. I came Across your video while trying to Google why Inkspace always opens a new inkspace window when I try to import multiple photos. If you have any suggestions of how I can fix this please help.
Hello, very interesting, thanx a lot! I tried to export an image for a website (in pixels). Had to reduce the number of pixels to diminish size, but now the image has the right size, but not precise enough. How to solve this please?
thank you for these! wouldn't be able to do this without you. Is there a way to have the software divide up a large object onto multiple printer pages automatically, such that they can be taped together IRL to form the full sized object, or will I have to do that manually?
If i create something on Inkscape on page dimensions as a4 at 300dpi for print. Can I then save the exact same design and document in a different size i.e. a3 or A5 without having to edit the entire image. Is there a way to export the file this way?
I am using ink scape and font that I pick , it opens up like its set up on contour mode and set on the contour on top and and can not be changed or separated, all fonts are working like this, I can change anything. Can you please help.
Five videos in and I am already starting to feel like a pro
😂😂
I'm watching some ads to show my appreciation ;) thank you for making these videos short enough to not feel overwhelming, yet packed with great information that really helps! You have a great way of explaining things and it really shows. i downloaded inkscape and was lost, but now I finally have hope.
Thanks Amanda. I appreciate the feedback and the kind words. Best of luck to you!
You only need to watch 6 seconds of the ads. The advertiser doesn't pay any ad that has been skipped in the first 5 seconds ;)
Thank you so much for creating these lessons. I just downloaded Inkscape and was worried about learning how to use it. You've helped--so much.
the button he is talking about at 3:30 is "iconify" it has been removed from the newest version. you can press F12 to hide the dialog box though or you can drag it outside the project and it will create its own window
Thanks, I was confused as to why it wasn't showing up in mine lol
game changerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!! I mean atleast for me I have been making t shirts for 4 years and I want to get into making svgs. Im so happy I decided to sit down and go video by video. Im 5 videos in and understand way more then I did 40 mins ago thank you so much for this content. YOU EARNED A SUBCRIBER
In these 5 videos you have cleared the fundamentals of using these kinds of softwares as some of the things are same that u use in animation softwares like opentoonz and synfig, and photoshop too
Thank you for all these tutorials...they have been extremely helpful in learning how to use inkspace a lot faster then muddling through it on my own.
You're welcome! I appreciate the feedback.
I used to work with adobe products but since it can be expensive and i cant own the software and having difficulty bouncing between old and newer files is a hastle i decided to try out inkscape because its opensourse. Everything feels like a review of stuff i know and i'll get the hang of this soon enough. Your tutorials are quiet useful and easy to grasp. I find that tutorials tend to skip steps and leave the learner confused and left behind. You are very good at this.
Glad to hear it. Thanks for the feedback!
you are a fantastic teacher thank you so much for decreasing my frustrstion level from a 10+ to a 1. now i can finally sleep.
Yet another informative Tutorial! I swear I've learned more from 2 of your tut's than I have from the last 3 weeks of putzing around! The White/Alpha background thing was driving me nuts. Thank You so much!!!
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback!
I nearly drove myself mad trying to teach myself.
First off, I have watched 1-5 of your tutorial videos so far and I like the way you go over the important things that a beginner needs to know, not getting bogged down in the weeds on things that someone with more understanding would understand. But It is funny to listen to your cadence from the beginning of the video compared to the end of the video. Keep up the good work!!! Heading to #6
Wow! Thanks so much! I've been trying to do a lot of stuff with open source software so finding your channel is like finding a pot of gold lol
Lika so many people down below I have also experienced overwhelment, however these tutorials are super helpful to ease right into Inkscape and to slowly but efitiently understand this software. Thank you! :D
TJ, You deserve a lot of credit and every cent they send you for the ads, Im watching them all as well. Just phenomenal information and learning so much. Thanks dude, you are my hero!
The reason the file size is not as huge as expected is that the png format supports compression and a blank background will compress to a small size.
i deeply appreciate your videos you have no idea how happy i was when i finally figured everything out. deeply appreciated
Notes from Lesson 4
⦁ To have objects together, select one of the objects first, then hold down the shift key on your keyboard and select another object.
⦁ You can have as many objects selected as you want using the same procedure. You can then move them, change their colors, size, etc. at once.
⦁ If you click on the Esc key or on any part of the page the objects will be deselected
⦁ To keep the selected objects together, click Object in the menu bar and choose group. The objects will remain together even if you click on an empty space on the page.
⦁ You can also group objects by holding the Ctrl + G in your keyboard.
⦁ To ungroup the objects, select ungroup in the menu bar.
⦁ You can duplicate an object or a group by selecting it and holding Ctrl + D in your keyboard.
This is great. I added these to the Lesson 4 Video Description. Thank you!
@@TJFREE You are welcome, and thank you TJ FREE!
Dude, you're a fabulous teacher. Thank you!
Watching your videos at 0.75 speed.. Hmm now i understand each word you tell... Thank you... 💐💐💐💐
About to start Video 6. Starting to understand a lot more about this program. Many thanks to you Sir.
Again... Inkscape super hero! I have some designing to do... Tshirts heat transfer to cut out... some metal craft dies to design for both my mom and myself (I literally want to design a soap box for my handmade soaps and have the metal die made.)... wine / mead and beer bottle labels for home brews ect. I have proper sticker material to cut out and put on coffee cups ect. I am nerdy in things like... conventions and D&D... but this kind of software was a thorn in my side. I have found the software for my cameo cutter frustrating and it does not have the EPS I need to get something made. You I am doing all the steps along with you... pause and do... pause and do. For me it works. Thanks again for helping me have the ability to fix this stuff so I can keep on crafting important things.... you know... like beer and character sheets. :D
Awesome! Best of luck, and feel free to share some of the end results if you'd like, would love to see.
@@TJFREE Once I get them on the bottles. :D Anything is better than painters tape with stuff written on it. Some of the wine and mead I would like to age a year or so. I think they are "okay" and I will get better in time.
@@cheekysaver That's awesome!
Thank god for these. I'd be stuck in tech class without them.
Hi me from a year ago.
I just found your videos, just wanted to thank you for all the tutorials, I was looking for a simple software to draw some easy vectors, this was really helpful.
I just realized that these tutorials have no ads on it? waw
I think it's fine for you to add the ads for these video sir, you deserve well payment for these tutorials, thank you !
I'm binge watching your tutorials - thank you!
After struggling with Xara (which is very tough to use and not intuitive) Inkscape is awesome, your videos on this open source product is really top notch! Thank you!
Thank you so much for these tutorials... I am familiar with PhotoShop (olden days) so you have really helped a lot!
Thanks, you are my teacher! and also my saver, i was trying to open the "proprieties" without success and after wathing your video I got to know it was there hidden. Thank you very much!!
thank you so much. you explain things so well and with calm which it makes it much easier to learn and watch.
Once again another great video......It cleared up so many confusing concepts........Thank You ...
Suggestion fo everyone: Don't open PNG files using Windows 10's Photos since for some reason it messes up with transparency. Paint simply opens them perfectly
Thanks, TJ FREE. This videos are more than helpful, honestly.
Thank you for another very helpful lesson. Cheers.
Just wanted to say thanks a lot man.
I have never used any vector graphics programs at all, i'm pretty familiar with photoshop and gimp but since i've been learning video game design vector graphics are very important.
I searched a few different phrases on youtube to try and find a tutorial explaining how to create a character in inkscape, but all i found were sped up time lapse videos with zero explanation as to what they were doing.
fantastic videos!
maybe you should consider putting these up on udemy.com i would have paid $10 for this complete course.
Thanks Earl. I really appreciate the feedback! I'm thinking about remaking the Inkscape tutorials even better when Inkscape 1.0 comes out, with an entire written and video course, and sample projects to download. I've looked into building my own site similar to udemy for teaching open source software, but I'm not planning on charging for it.
Yeh you do are great job I second that
thx again for another top notch lesson! Grateful for the help!
I can not thank you enough for these tutorials. You are awesome.
Thanks Robert. Happy to help!
So helpful and so simple, thank you! 🤩
Thank you!! For this great series of inkscape its becoming very useful. To understand..
You're making absolute sense.
This one was very important. Appreciate you.
You're the man, TJ. Thanks
I am loving these tutorials. Glad to find your page :)
Thank you. That was a massive help. I'd managed to lose my "Export As PNG" by docking it, and so I couldn't get it to open :D
Very useful. Been looking for an alternative to Illustrator. Thanks!
In the last version of inkscape the page isn't transparent and when I export the object it still has a white background. I don't know how to fix this.
Thank you for your hard work TJ :) Your videos are extremely useful and informative
Your welcome! Thanks for the feedback!
Based on which version has this video been produced? In my version (1.2.1) the panel of the document properties looks different and does not contain all options you are showing. besides that, congratulation to the videos.
Thanks so much for creating the lessons, I've been following thru from Video 1!!!
Awesome content, easy to follow
i thought inkscape complicated actually not thank you for all your videos
Excellent video for newbies, love it
thanks for your videos easy to follow
Thank you! Just what I was looking for.
Hey TJ FREE! Thank you for creating these great tutorials. Do you know of a good list that can tell export settings and dimensions for inkscape?
Beside the case when I am designing something for a certain dimension; why should I not just always use the largest preset size (A0)? So I can always downscale it with little quality loss?
Very well explained and a huge help. Thank you.
You're the best! I needed to add that white background.....
Thank you so much
such a good tutorial..... thankyou so much🥰
very important tutorial. thankyou
thank you very much for this awesome tutorial
Great video! IThank you very much!
This make sense, going to give it a try. I’m sharing pictures on instagram so exporting jpeg……and they don’t look good
I'm wondering why you would have to set the dpi when vector is mathematical and the colour depths are already set in the file. 100% opaque for example. The printer should be able to stretch it to whatever size he wants, right? It should not have to be 36 x 36", right? I think dpi is only for raster art files not in vector format. Right?
Question: I am starting to use a a Spectrum Pro laser printer and wondered if this program will work for that? I am attempting to learn Retina Engrave as well, but this allows me to create an image and import over to Retina Engrave. I am so very new to Laser printing so I have started with just learning how to create my own images to engrave and cut. Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
How come there are several downvotes for these great tutorials !!
I agree the lessons are fantastic. One question. I am looking into Inkscape to draw an outline of our entire house using a projector. Then use layering to draw in the windows , gutters , doors etc . Then use another software (that I am researching) to mask and do projection mapping. Will I be able to do this or all of this with Inkscape? Thanks for your input
Tried it, it was "saved" but whenever I tried to open the file, it apparently doesn't exist?
you mean u tried saving the file? or tried export it and it didnt save?
Shrinking the dock (iconify this dock button) seems to be no longer in Inkscape (using 1.1)
Still looking for a solution to this! Anyone figure it out?
Oops. There it is.....F12.
Thanks mate.
You're welcome!
Thanks for the upload. Unfortunately, I can not get the 'page' tab to remain engaged. The program automatically switches to drawing or selection. I am clueless re the coordinates and how to correct this issue. Happy for some ideas please.
this is the best thing ever on youtube
Excellent video, thank you
You're welcome!
TJ FREE!! You're the best...I spent the weekend watching your videos and feel very confidant now. I still have some issues trying to figure out why I'm not exporting both parts of design together?? Does anyone know if i need to do something besides select them both? Same with using the "difference" tool...I made both things "objects" and hit union...but it doesn't always cut???
Thanks Sue! Sometimes the 'difference' and 'union' tools will not work because one of the paths is actually a group (even if its a single path, it can still be grouped by itself). I run into this issue fairly often, and it may be what's causing your issue.
Sometimes part of your drawing could be off the page or print area, that may exclude part of your drawing too. Also to make sure you get the whole drawing do a full group, 'drag a box around everything to select it then group all of it together' then if some small part is just a little off the page it will be anchored by the whole drawing.
thank you so much for your inkscape tutorials. I was wondering if you have any tutorials for
Cricut Design Space?
Okay....so...I am kind of confused. I thought one of the big points of having a vector program was that you could export vector images that can be scaled up to as big or as small as you wanted without losing detail. So....whats' with having to tell it pixels or inches or any size for that matter? I thought it was math based, not size based. It seems I might as well just use Photoshop and save it as a PNG from there. I'm new to this kind of program so what I've heard isn't jiving with what I'm learning....
Hi I'm trying to export some stickers as a png to upload to cricut design space but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
The Documents properties isn't docked anymore, it opens a small window, pretty annoying. Any workaround?
Hi TJ. If I create a poster design to send to a printer - how can I set up print bleed and crop. Say the poster is a4 so page dimensions of 297mm x 210 - if I click render, I only have the 'grids' options showing up, no crop or bleed options. Any idea how to get these options or how to set the poster up with crop marks and print bleed? Thanks!
but why wont it export my background color? everything is good, except its background color always switches to grey...
So helpfull for begginers
Could not get my Document Properties box to lock into sidebar....
8:14 Since the program is gonna save a PNG file already, shouldn't the button have to read "Export to..." instead of "Export as..."? Unless we DO have the option to change the file format there as well. Just an observation, though. Very nice tutorials, dude!
If I am going to do some text. How do I do to avoid going over the size of the page. I was making a sign that is 29 x 25 cms. How do I prevent my text from going over the size of the page I defined.?
this is great but I cannot set the image (under drawing settings) to by 4800 px wide by 3692 px tall with 300 dpi. What should I do to correct this?
Wait...I think I got it...thanks for all your videos...I'm self-teaching :)
Omg you helped me understand what I was doing so much more. Thank you. I came Across your video while trying to Google why Inkspace always opens a new inkspace window when I try to import multiple photos. If you have any suggestions of how I can fix this please help.
How do I move my document properties box? It's on the left side of the screen covering up the icons. Thank you!
Hello, very interesting, thanx a lot! I tried to export an image for a website (in pixels). Had to reduce the number of pixels to diminish size, but now the image has the right size, but not precise enough. How to solve this please?
Love your videos ! Thank you!
No problem, thanks for watching!
i love these but the yard sale brings me shivers
Just Imagine Walking Around The Store With A Yard Sale With A Red Star On It...
Thank you so much this helped a lot for school
thank you for these! wouldn't be able to do this without you. Is there a way to have the software divide up a large object onto multiple printer pages automatically, such that they can be taped together IRL to form the full sized object, or will I have to do that manually?
I haven't printed anything lately, but if I remember right, that it was in the printer menu
well explained. thanks a lot
Hello, nice video, thanks. Do you know how to set the document property at 72dpi? Thanks
If i create something on Inkscape on page dimensions as a4 at 300dpi for print. Can I then save the exact same design and document in a different size i.e. a3 or A5 without having to edit the entire image. Is there a way to export the file this way?
This is good. How do you specify the dpi or ppi to export?
I am using ink scape and font that I pick , it opens up like its set up on contour mode and set on the contour on top and and can not be changed or separated, all fonts are working like this, I can change anything. Can you please help.
How did you export with a transparent background? Whenever I export, the background is white.
thank good Sir.. I also got ImageGlass. You are helpful
Nice, you're welcome!
im working on ubuntu and didnt see any checkboard background there