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Make Text Less Boring In Inkscape By Adding Swashes
 Make Text Less Boring In Inkscape By Adding Swashes 1024 576 Nick Saporito
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Today I’ll be demonstrating how you can use Inkscape to add character to your lettering by applying these decorative flourishes known as swashes. This is accomplished using the Pencil Tool and the Power Stroke path effect. First, we’ll use the Pencil to draw a plain line in the contour of the swash, then we’ll use…

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Cutout text effect
Create A Cutout Text Effect in Affinity Designer
 Create A Cutout Text Effect in Affinity Designer 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating a simple and non-destructive way to create a cutout text effect where the text is represented by negative space, allowing the background to show through. Typically, you would think to use something like Boolean operations, or the Shape Builder. However, this can be accomplished in a non-destructive way using…

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Drawing the FireFox logo in Inkscape
How To Draw The Firefox Logo In Inkscape 🔥🦊
 How To Draw The Firefox Logo In Inkscape 🔥🦊 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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Today’s tutorial is an exercise in using Inkscape as a tool for tracing, drawing and simulating gradients. Follow step-by-step as I demonstrate how to draw the Firefox logo using nothing but ellipses and the Pen Tool. When drawing with vectors, I’ve found that it’s always helpful to try to visualize the simple shapes within a…

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Design YouTube Thumbnails In Affinity Photo
Design YouTube Thumbnails In Affinity Photo
 Design YouTube Thumbnails In Affinity Photo 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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You don’t need a Photoshop subscription to make glowing thumbnail designs that entice users to click on your videos. In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to do so in Affinity Photo. The key to nailing this look is knowing which Adjustment Layers and Quick FX to use, and in this lesson I go…

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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 files The ability…

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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 into a…

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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 setting…

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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 objects,…

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Save with a transparent background in Inkscape
How To Save A Transparent PNG with Inkscape
 How To Save A Transparent PNG with Inkscape 1024 602 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to save your designs with a transparent background in Inkscape. This will enable you to generate usable copies of your designs in PNG format and without a background. When saving files you may naturally think of the typical File-Save-As pathway, but with design software it’s a little…

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How to change the background color in Inkscape
How To Change The Background Color In Inkscape
 How To Change The Background Color In Inkscape 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to change the background color of the canvas and workspace in Inkscape. We’ll also be going over how to save these changes so that they’re applied every time you launch Inkscape. By default, Inkscape opens with a white canvas (or “page” as it’s called) and a light…

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