Episode 064 - Bitmap Masking

by Richard Querin

This screencast demonstrates a couple of ways that you can easily use objects in Inkscape to mask out parts of a bitmap image. This idea came from an email from David Hernandez, a viewer who pointed us to this post which demonstrated a grid masking effect using Photoshop.

Granted, I haven’t tried the Photoshop tutorial, I get the feeling that like many other (but not all) things involving the creative use of bitmaps, Inkscape can sometimes be more effective. But hey, I’m biased.

As always, I hope you find it useful - but there are no guarantees ;).

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Episode 063 - Custom Patterns

by heathenx

In this episode I’m going to take a look at how to create a custom pattern and add it to our default patterns document so that I can use it in future projects. I’ll be using Inkscape v0.46.

Please review fellow Inkscape user Rob Antonishen’s blog for a thorough custom pattern tutorial as well.  Rob fills in all the stuff that I forgot to mention when I plowed through my screencast at hyper speed. Also, he has some other tips on his website that I know many of you will find useful. Rob is pretty active on the Inkscape-User mailing list so if you are a subscriber then I’m sure you have already caught some of his posts. Thanks Rob.

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Episode 062 - Raster Image Perspective Effect

by heathenx

In this episode I will demonstrate how to manipulate a raster image by applying a perspective effect with the help of Imagemagick and then using that in my vector project. I will be using Inkscape v0.46.

You will need to download and install Imagemagick for your operating system, if you don’t already have it, in order to use the terminal command that I demonstrate in the tutorial. If you are using a Debian based distro, such as, Ubuntu then it’s as simple as a “sudo apt-get install imagemagick” in a terminal. Binaries are also available for Windows and Mac users.

You may visit imagemagick.org for a closer look at this small but powerful package. For specific information regarding the the perspective distort then cruise over to this link.

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