From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Working with linear gradients - Inkscape Tutorial
From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Working with linear gradients
- [Instructor] You can apply smooth blends of color to the strokes and fills of your artwork with Inkscape's Gradient tool and the Fill and Stroke dialog. So, let's take a look at how to do that with linear gradients. Here I have a nice little forest of trees and I want to create the effect of a sunrise or sunset in the sky. This is a perfect use for a gradient. Since I want all the trees to appear in front of the sky, I put them on their own layer, which I can see in the Layers dialog, called Forest and we're going to work on the Sky layer. So I'll select the rectangle that's filled with the blue color for the sky and to change this to a gradient, I'll switch to the Gradient tool either by clicking on it or pressing the letter G. Notice the tool controls for the Gradient tool. For a new gradient, I can make a linear or a radio gradient. I'm going to stick with linear here and I'll apply a linear gradient to the fill…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(Locked)
Adding fills to your objects3m 8s
-
(Locked)
Understanding fill rules3m 4s
-
(Locked)
Adding strokes to your objects5m 13s
-
(Locked)
Working with linear gradients3m 40s
-
(Locked)
Working with radial gradients3m 34s
-
(Locked)
Working with mesh gradients5m 55s
-
(Locked)
Working with patterns4m 6s
-
(Locked)
Working with swatches3m 18s
-
(Locked)
Working with stroke styles3m 29s
-
(Locked)
Working with dashed and dotted strokes2m 25s
-
(Locked)
Using the Dropper tool to sample and apply colors2m 49s
-
(Locked)
Creating blurs2m 16s
-
(Locked)
-
-
-
-
-
-