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Not surprisingly, I had difficulties since I immediately jumped into the program without a plan, just the intent to play around with the software. Do not take this as an indication of the uses of the application. Turns out there are tons of tutorials (go figure!) and I could have accomplished a lot more in the some amount of time, minus a lot of frustration.
one major source of my frustration came from my computer. It's 6 years old and struggling hard to make it through my JMU career; with limited memory and the download of Inkscape, it was at its processing limits. I had a lot of lag, and things took 3x longer than they should have. Nevertheless, here a few functions that I experimented with, some can be seen in the image above, while some were scrapped:
- Shapes
- Overlapping Transparencies
- Filters such as feathering, beveling, shadow, sketch (standard filters also found in Photoshop, Illustrator, and the such)
- Combining Filters, Opacity, Trasparency illusions
- Masks
- Layers
- Fonts (largely unsuccessful)
Inkscape is a popular alternative to Adobe Illustrator, and therefore has many (if not most) of the same functions as the Adobe editing software.
Perusal of blogs addressing Inkscape and offering tutorials turned up several references of accomplishing an effect using Inkscape AND the GIMP. The full power of this combination will need to be explored.
Moral of the post: I did not use the software to its full potential. If you so desire to, check out the following link as a starting point ("10 best Inkscape tutorials": I will be going through these myself as a do-over for my Inkscape experience): http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/10-of-the-best-inkscape-tutorials/#more-273
And here is the link to an entire blog dedicated to the Inkscape cause:
http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
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