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Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by avhon1 »

valesco wrote: post #45
mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

How did you replace AE?

Blender is remarkably good for video editing and compositing.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by mekkkkkk »

valesco wrote: post #45
mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

How did you replace AE?

Admittedly I'm only dabbling on a hobby level when it comes to video editing and composition. For what I've been doing Blender has been more than sufficient. It has a pretty good track editor a la Premiere and you can use the composition pipeline to enhance visuals.

Of course Blender also provides everything you'd need for visual effects, tracking and separate passes since it's a full 3D suite as well.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by akeck »

barrenko wrote: post #26
akeck wrote: post #16

I adore Inkscape. If you haven't tried it, painting with the marker tool and a pressure sensitive tablet is really fun. Drawn look but infinitely scalable. Good for "cell" style art.

Need to try this, thanks.

It's a little tedious, but I prefer to do one color per layer. After drawing a color, select everything in the layer and then do a union and remove all the interior points. That makes the file much smaller. Otherwise, you have overlapping "brush strokes" that have hundreds of points each.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by ramraj07 »

tombert wrote: post #46
mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

I'm curious if you think an exe of a very old version of flash might be enough for you.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by billfruit »

Its a great tool.

One feature I missed in earlier versions was the ability to define styles (like line styles) and select the style before drawing an element, rather than draw an element then setting its style afterwards. If that was possible I could select a line style and draw like any number of elements of that style, instead of going to each drawn element and changing its style. Is it possible to use that workflow in present versions?

Another nice feature would have been to have an integrated library of shapes, to use in your own diagrams.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by ramses0 »

valesco wrote: post #45
mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

How did you replace AE?

https://shotcut.org - has done fairly well for me. I believe `DaVinci - Resolve` is a paid tool which also has a free linux version (with restrictions).

Honestly, video editing can be crashy and resource-intensive so don't be afraid to pay for something.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by zackbrown »

tombert wrote: post #46
mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

Haiku Animator recently went free and open source: https://www.haikuanimator.com

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by s1291 »

billfruit wrote: post #65

Its a great tool. One feature I missed in earlier versions was the ability to define styles (like line styles) and select the style before drawing an element, rather than draw an element then setting its style afterwards. If that was possible I could select a line style and draw like any number of elements of that style, instead of going to each drawn element and changing its style. Is it possible to use that workflo…

> Another nice feature would have been to have an integrated library of shapes, to use in your own diagrams.

Inkscape has Symbol libraries. (from the menu : Object > symbols).

You can create you own library. PS: there is also this project: https://github.com/PanderMusubi/inkscape-open-symbols

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by matsemann »

cies wrote: post #2

I absolutely love this program. Few times per year I need a vector tool. After some toying with proprietary vector tools (Illustrator), I learned Inkscape (as it was readily available in my Linux envs). I never looked back. It does the job. I never have to look for cracked software in order to open my old files or use my acquired skills. It just works.

For me it's the opposite. Things just are so much harder than they need to be. Rotating and moving stuff ends up with lots of transforms in the svg. Copying something in from another file wreaks havoc if both files used classes to style things. So many surprises all the time. I want to like it and Gimp, but end up with paid options every time.
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