Nick Saporito

Line drawing is one of the most fundamental aspects of vector design, and in this tutorial we’ll be going over all of the various ways in which you can draw lines in Inkscape. Whether you’re looking to draw straight lines, curved lines, or a combination of both, there are dedicated tools and settings for each,…

In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to make a simple halftone gradient in Inkscape. The result depicts lots of tiny dots that gradually increase in size based on the sample area that they are traced over. As it turns out, there is no feature for directly creating halftones in Inkscape, so we will…

In this tutorial we’ll be having a look at all the ways in which you can round corners of objects in Inkscape. However, there are various types of objects in Inkscape, meaning there are different methods for each. As it turns out, the easiest way to round corners in Inkscape is by using the Corners…

If you’re using Inkscape with a higher resolution screen (such as a 4K monitor) then you may run into an issue where the nodes and handles on your screen are so small that they are difficult to work with. Nodes and handles allow you to transform your artwork in various ways, and as a commonly-used…

In this tutorial we’ll be going over how you can join paths together in Inkscape so that they become a single path. This is accomplished by merging nodes together using a tool setting for the Edit Paths By Nodes tool. Knowing how to join paths can be useful for a variety of reasons. Maybe you…

Color inversion is typically a quick process that only requires a few clicks, but Inkscape provides a variety of settings that can be adjusted to fine-tune every color to your liking. In this tutorial we’ll be going over all of those settings and everything else having to do with inverting colors of vector objects in…