Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers
Год: 2010
Автор: Bethany Hiitola
Издательство: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 184951268X, 978-1849512688
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Количество страниц: 316
Описание: Use the fascinating Inkscape graphics editor to create attractive layout designs, images, and icons for your website
The first book on the newly released Inkscape version 0.48, with an exclusive focus on web design
Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Inkscape required for web design
Incorporate eye-catching designs, patterns, and other visual elements to spice up your web pages
Learn how to create your own Inkscape templates in addition to using the built-in ones
Written in a simple illustrative manner, which will appeal to web designers and experienced Inkscape users alike
In Detail
Do you think that your website could do with more visual appeal? Are you looking to spice it up with attractive designs and effects? Enter Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers--the only book specifically tailored to using Inkscape for web design. This book will teach you how to effectively use the fascinating new Inkscape vector graphics editor, which, despite being in version 0.48 and having no dearth of competitors, has already separated itself from the competition. Learn everything you need to know about enhancing your website--from site layouts to templates and animations--whether you are looking for a new website design or just some eye-candy.
The Inkscape graphics editor is powerful, but getting started is often difficult. Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers walks you through the challenge of using Inkscape from a web design perspective in the easiest way possible..
The first book to unlock the potential of Inkscape for web design, it begins with an introduction to the basics of Inkscape and then journeys you through implementing them in your website one by one.
Learn to build your first website design using Inkscape. Create web page and desktop wallpapers with repeating pattern backgrounds and swirling designs. Incorporate icons and interactive maps on your website. Style and graphically manipulate text--from simple headings to shadowing, following paths, reflections, 3D effects, and more. Enhance your web pages using flowcharts, diagrams, and site maps and learn how to export them. Spruce it all up using animations.
This book will teach you all that and more, in a simple effective manner; and what's more--you'll have fun doing it.
What you will learn from this book
What Inkscape is and how it can be used for web design
Everything about site layouts--from architecting a website to exporting image files
Adding illustrative and web-ready diagrams, maps, designs to your website
Importing, manipulating, and rendering trace and raster images for your web page
Tips and Tricks for "tracing" bitmap images to convert them into full vector graphics for both photographs and logos
Text editing and styling--kerning, rotating, moving letters from the baseline, reflection, following paths, shadows, the perspective tool, and cool envelope effects
Icon and button design principles and how to add them to your website
Creating simple and effective animated GIFs for your web page with GIMP
Incorporating animated banners, advertisements, and scrolling text in your website
The basics of XML and SVG coding
Approach
This book is written in a clear conversational style, which emphasizes a practical learn-by-doing approach. Packed with illustrations and examples, this book will make the task of using Inkscape simple and straightforward.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for web designers who want to add attractive visual elements to their website. It assumes no previous knowledge of Inkscape. General familiarity with vector graphics programming is recommended but not required. It will also be a useful guide for experienced Inkscape users who want to learn how to apply their skills to website design.
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