Read more about how vectors work at Drawing and Selecting The outline of a shape is called the stroke and the area inside a closed shape is called the fill. A shape is open when it has two loose ends that don’t connect (like a spiral or straight line). When you use the other tools, like stretching a shape with the Select Tool, Inkscape is actually editing many nodes at once behind the scenes.Ī vector shape is closed when it makes a complete loop (like a circle or square) and every node connects to two others. You can edit vector shapes by moving the nodes and changing the angles of the segments with the Node Tool, or by using Inkscape’s other tools.

They are made up of points called nodes, and segments that connect the nodes. The items inside your Inkscape file are vector images, which use mathematical equations to define shapes. Basics at - More details on how to manipulate objects.Interface Tutorial by Roy Torley - Another overview of the interface and navigation.

Anatomy of Inkscape Window at - Diagram of the parts of the Inkscape window.

Basic Tutorial on - Quick overview of common tools and commands.

Several interactive tutorials are available inside Inkscape itself by selecting Help > Tutorials in the menu, including the Basic Tutorial below.

If you have never used Inkscape before, we recommend following an Inkscape tutorial before using Ink/Stitch. Optionally, you can fill the removed transparent vertices with any color using the palette in the options or by entering the full color by name, its hex code, RGB code, or RGBA code.These are the basics you should understand in order to use Ink/Stitch. If you want to create a perfect circle from a rectangular PNG, then you'll first have to crop it to a square by using our crop png utility, and only then you can make it a perfect circle. To do this, select the circle rounding mode and round each corner by a radius equal to a half of its dimensions, i.e. If you load a PNG image that has equal width and height dimensions (the picture is a square), then you can turn it into a perfect circle. You can switch between the quadratic and circle corner rounding modes in the options. By default, corners are cropped along a quadratic curve line but you can also cut the corners along a circular line. This way, you can remove just one corner from the PNG or multiple corners at once. If you leave any of the radiuses empty, then that vertex won't be rounded. You can control the radius of every vertex in the options. This browser-based program rounds the corners of a PNG picture.

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