And since audio quality is good, and Michael is a native English speaker, the course is quite watchable at 1.25x speed (stretching it to 1.5x might or might not work for you). Still, for a video reference in features in a completely new application, this will work quite OK. Another nitpick is that, personally, I found the quizzes not entirely representative of the information I was supposed to learn. But don’t expect to get much creative during the course, and there will be no course assignments.Īlso, you won’t learn to draw anything fun, unless it’s what you do additionally to the course. Michael meticulously covered what each tool does.
“Inkscape For Beginners 2016/2017” by Michael DiGregorio will work best as an introduction and a reference to Inkscape’s toolbox and some basic features. But these are the two I picked and watched, based on user-submitted reviews. I’ll be honest with you: I haven’t watched all available courses on Udemy, as it would put a dent on my budget. As of February 2018, the platform provides over 20 paid Inkscape-focused or Inkscape-related courses. It looks like Udemy is currently #1 resource of structured educational video material on Inkscape. Although the book is 9 years old, it’ll get you going just fine. But covering all features is what Dmitry did brilliantly. After 14 years of using Inkscape, I don’t think I need much convincing, so no particular opinion there. The author’s original intent, as explained in the preface, was to cover all Inkscape features and evangelize vector graphics. Which really does help mastering this software. One particularly great thing about this book is that Dmitry makes a point of using Inkscape efficiently, via keyboard shortcuts. Released in 2009, his book is a likewise thorough user guide that can also be used as a reference, but includes a number of quick tutorials to help you practice using Inkscape. Dmitry contributed numerous improvements and several new tools in the early days of Inkscape, under a nickname. You should keep that in mind, if you go for the hardcopy instead.ĭmitry Kirsanov’s “The Book of Inkscape” is another book written by an actual Inkscape developer. The online version is considered 5th edition and was last updated in 2017, while the last printed version is the 4th edition from 2011. Which is likely the reason it has been linked to right from the Help menu in Inkscape. You may not like Tavmjong’s dry technical style of writing, but he is extremely thorough, and for years it was pretty much the only comprehensive guide to Inkscape. The book works best as a reference rather than a user guide.
Even though Tav is very busy with working on Inkscape and participating at the SVG W3C working group’s activities, he does his best at maintaining it.
The online version of “Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program” book by Tavmjong Bah is probably the only exception where you get up-to-date material. Nevertheless, while there’s always a ton of improvements in each Inkscape release, all basics are the same even 10 years later, and many advanced techniques are the same as well.
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Writing a book usually takes at least half a year, and publishers want to be sure that people who buy the book will actually have the software to go along with (it’s why there aren’t many new GIMP books, too). It has a lot to do with how book publishing works, and also with a 5 years long period between 0.48 released in 2009 and v0.91 released in 2015. One thing that has to be immediately pointed out is that most books on Inkscape are somewhat outdated and cover v0.47 and v0.48 (all books published by Packtpub, in particular). That said, if you think I missed a useful Inkscape educational resource (the popular expression seems to be ‘you forgot’), please do link to it in the comments section! The list also covers only the resources in English. This basically means that I watched and read almost everything there is to watch and read, and then made up my mind if I think it’s worth recommending. Please note that I compiled this list based on my own criteria of usefulness. So this is an attempt to a definitive guide to various learning resources on Inkscape, free/libre vector graphics editor As someone who maintains social media accounts for a few free/libre software projects, one of the top questions I keep being asked is how/where to learn using this or that application.
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