The saucer will be comprised of five different ellipses, so get ready to draw. Let's start by making the saucer that the coffee cup rests on. If this is your first time using Inkscape, I recommend that you complete a few of the tutorials that come bundled with Inkscape first to get the hang of how the program works (available from the Help menu).īegin by opening up a New document in Inkscape. If you would like to download Inkscape, go to. If you're familiar with Illustrator or a similar program, you should be able to follow along relatively easily. We'll mostly be drawing shapes and using the Gradient Tool to accomplish the desired effect. In this first Inkscape tutorial for Vectortuts+, we'll create a beautiful coffee cup and show off some of Inkscape's features. The user can drag any of the handles in any direction to transform or distort the selected objects in different ways.Inkscape is an open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator and other programs for creating vector graphics. Here we see two objects (or paths) selected in this new transformation mode.

2, we could have a button in the toolbar. Ctr, Shift and Alt combinations are assigned to many things in Inkscape, so this could be a problem here. Each one can be accessed using normal drag and Shift-drag respectively. There are are two submodes, one useful to create symmetric perspective and the other useful to create non symmetric perspective.

We could have a three-click interface, first click selects the object and scale mode, second click switches to rotation mode, as usual, and a third click switches to this new transformation mode. I've been using this in Paint Shop Pro and it's a great feature, it really helps you get those painful perspective effects.Įntering this new mode could be achieved by different ways, I'm not sure of any of them: I propose a new mode (or tool) to apply transformation on shapes or group of shapes by dragging the selection box handles, just as you do with the standard scale/rotate handles.

How to use inkscape handles