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Nick Saporito

Working with gradients in Inkscape
The Definitive Guide To Working With Gradients In Inkscape
 The Definitive Guide To Working With Gradients In Inkscape 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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Gradients are transitions between various colors, and they’re an essential part of graphic design and digital art in general. In this tutorial we’ll be going over everything you need to know to make gradients in Inkscape; including linear, radial, mesh, and conical gradients. In short, there’s two different tools we’ll be working with to make…

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New Features In Affinity Designer 🗞️ Welcome To Version 2.4!
 New Features In Affinity Designer 🗞️ Welcome To Version 2.4! 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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Earlier today Serif released version 2.4 of Affinity Designer and with it comes some new features and tools. The biggest new addition is the Layer States menu, which allows you to toggle the visibility of multiple layers based on parameters of your choosing. Some other new features include… The ability to export DXF and DWG…

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Repeating an object along a path in Affinity Designer
How To Repeat Objects Along A Path In Affinity Designer
 How To Repeat Objects Along A Path In Affinity Designer 1024 683 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can take a single object and repeat it along a path in Affinity Designer. This can be useful in creating fun patterns and decorative borders. To accomplish this, we’ll need to create an object to repeat and then make it into a Textured Image Brush. Once made…

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Elegant logo design made with Inkscape
Create An Elegant Logo Design in Inkscape + Free Template
 Create An Elegant Logo Design in Inkscape + Free Template 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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Learn how to use Spiro Paths in Inkscape to create these decorative ornaments that can be made into elegant logo and monogram designs. The secret to making these paths look fluid and natural is knowing which mode to use for the Pen Tool (I have an in-depth lesson on the Pen Tool here.) The Spiro…

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Create A Carved Wood Mockup with Affinity Designer
 Create A Carved Wood Mockup with Affinity Designer 1024 602 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to use Affinity Designer to take any vector object and make it look like it’s been carved into a piece of wood. This can be an excellent way to depict the versatility of a logo design. It also works with simple illustrations, such as logos, icons, text…

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Realistic Wildlife Silhouettes 🦝 More Nature Vectors 🦌
 Realistic Wildlife Silhouettes 🦝 More Nature Vectors 🦌 800 470 Nick Saporito
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This post contains a download for a collection of 40 realistic wildlife silhouettes. The designs include various types of animals commonly found in nature. They pair nicely with the nature-themed designs I’ve sent out over the past couple of weeks. Use them to create logos, badges, emblems, and various types of vector illustrations: They can…

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Vector Tree Silhouettes 🌳 Nature Vector Pack 🌳
 Vector Tree Silhouettes 🌳 Nature Vector Pack 🌳 800 470 Nick Saporito
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This post includes a download for 24 vector tree silhouettes that you can add to your toolbox and use to craft logos, badges, and various types of illustrations. The silhouettes can be edited in any vector-based application, including Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity Designer. You can edit the nodes, change the fill and stroke properties, perform…

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Logos By Nick Is Once Again Accepting Clients
 Logos By Nick Is Once Again Accepting Clients 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Greetings and Happy New Year! 2024 marks a pivot in how I do business, so I wanted to share a brief update. A couple of years ago I stopped taking on freelance work so I could focus full-time on content creation. At the time I had many projects and ideas I wanted to explore, but…

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Color replace in Affinity Designer
How To Replace Every Instance Of A Color In Affinity Designer
 How To Replace Every Instance Of A Color In Affinity Designer 1000 587 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to find and replace every instance of a color using Affinity Designer. Doing so manually would require you to select objects and change their color one-by-one, but as it turns out, there is a much quicker way to do this. This is not to be confused with…

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Inkscape Shape Builder Tool
Inkscape Now Has A Shape Builder! Here’s How To Use It
 Inkscape Now Has A Shape Builder! Here’s How To Use It 1000 587 Nick Saporito
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The Inkscape team recently released version 1.3 and with it comes lots of new tools and features. One such welcomed addition is the Shape Builder Tool, which allows you to create shapes based on the intersecting areas of overlapping shapes. In this tutorial we’ll be having a look at how to use it to make a…

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