

Well these are typical paintings made with a vector graphic software so this is going to be, at least for web-design, a proficue use of inkscape. Inkscape does this as a vector tool, so you can use the best vector tool that probably is the bezier curve, you'll never find an easier tool to modify a shape, create your desired curves and lines, so this is a good point for inkscape.ĭo you like the web2.0 graphic design?I mean, you certanly met a reflection or a liquid badge in some new web-sites or beatiful icons in your iPod (.too bad speaking about an Apple product). This is not gonna be a complete essay about differences and features of raster and vector graphic, we just want to give you the basic knowledge to find the best practice when you decide to paint, to colour, to edit an image. You don't have coloured pixels in vector graphics (even if the monitor do this to show you what you are painting.) but you have lines, curves and you can do what you want with them, they don't have a fixed size.īut this is the most relevant difference between this two "graphic" software we wanted to explain but there are many others. You can enlarge as much as you want, quality will be the same and this is because raster and vector graphics work in a very different way. Try to do the same in inkscape, not with a raster image (it would be the same as before.) but with a vector painting. What you did is just to enlarge every pixel in order to fit the size you needed, so you have big pixels coloured in raster graphic. Yes, do it, but then try to recognize the image you already had.it will be not easy cause of the lower quality the image now have. Maybe this is not what you exactly need to answer to the many questions you're mind is going to ask.Ĭonsider this, you have a raster software like gimp or photoshop (you won't use is proprietary!), you download an image from internet and you want to change it, maybe you're going to enlarge that image cause it was so small! Same as before this is what you'll find in the inkscape web-site f.a.qs.

(For Internet Explorer, there's an SVG Viewer plugin from Adobe.) For more information, see #SVG topics below. Most vector editors these days can import and export SVG, and modern browsers (such as Firefox and Opera) can display it directly, i.e. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an open, industry-standard XML-based format for vector graphics developed by the W3C. Maybe some of you would like to have some explanations abuot what vector graphic is, so we'll try to do that now.
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This is what you read in the f.a.qs in the official inkscape website: What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.
