Denman Rooke

Been really enjoying learning #Inkscape over the last few days as a replacement to what I used to do in Adobe Illustrator.

Definitely a powerful program for text and vector graphics. Now that I've got my way around it with shortcuts and the like, I won't ever open or pay for Adobe Illustrator again.

It's also ticking the boxes for the type of work I used to do in Adobe Photoshop in regards to graphic design and text layout work for posters and such.

#FOSS for the win!

Sep 12, 2024 at 1:37pmWeb
Show threaddbat Sep 12, 2024
@denmanrooke Inkscape is the best! I dropped Freehand (yeah, that old!) and Corel for it twenty years ago, roughly.
Show threadHyphinettSep 12, 2024
@denmanrooke Have you tried Krita for more traditional raster stuff? FOSS art tools are so powerful now and paid tools are just piling on the drm and hypewave bloat. All the reasons I moved to open source tools as much as possible are proving true.
Show threadAllanSep 12, 2024
@denmanrooke any tutorials you’d recommend?
Show threadL James Sep 12, 2024
@denmanrooke (bangs fists on desk) one of us!! ONE OF US!!   
Show threadrag. Gustavino BevilacquaSep 12, 2024

@denmanrooke

Don't think #Inkscape is just for small illustrations: with it last month I made the poster below, 4.5×3 meters!

Show threadEyelit 👁️‍🗨️Sep 14, 2024
@denmanrooke as a developer, I hate it when designers provide me with svg generated by adobe tools. Don’t know which adobe cs thing specifically, but some are bloating svg with useless xml.
The stuff created from #Inkscape is usable out of the box. Even if they are not exported, the svg is lighter and better to integrate, without much need of xml cleaning. So designers picking up #Inkscape makes me happy :)
Show threadDenman RookeSep 14, 2024
@Eyelit great to hear! As an artist I have no idea what the benefit of .svg really is, but it's great to hear it's good in a pipeline.
Show threadJonathan NeuhauserSep 14, 2024
@denmanrooke @Eyelit Apart from being good in a pipeline, there is a very tangible advantage: being an open standard, there is no lock-in, ever. If Inkscape disappeared tomorrow, your file would still work in browsers and most other design software.
Sadly, advanced features like pages, variable-thickness strokes, and even proper multiline text never made it into the SVG standard. So Inkscape has do „dumb them down“ on saving. This breaks the promise of an open standard a bit.
Show threadPaper MoonSep 21, 2024
@denmanrooke I want to learn Inkscape because I want to get into fabric pattern design.I installed it and now just need the time and commitment to do it 😁
Show threadDenman RookeSep 22, 2024
@TazPoltorak Do it! After just playing with it and watching a couple tutorials I was doing everything I needed in like 30 minutes.