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Yesterday, I said to myself, "I haven't checked Inkscape in 2 years; I wonder what they're up to!" I went to the site and BAM, new update launched right before my eyes! Tbh, I never got used to 1.2, and I was considering reverting. But now, I'm updating baby! Great video! I just watched your 1.3 video, and I noticed you had a really nice mic on that older video. Do you need support getting a new mic? If so, please let me know how I can help, or donate! Really appreciate the quality of that 1.3 video, and I love the way you deliver information. Thanks again!
I started watching your videos some years ago and it helped me to start using Inkscape despite I'm not a designer and is really cool to see you still working with Inkscape and, apparently, not looking to leave it! Thanks for keeping up the content!
Unlike some other programs, Inkscape just keeps getting better! Before you know it, this program will be influencing other programs! It's interface is sleek yet intuitive. And the interface is what many programs get wrong. Off topic: I also make screen recordings, and am wondering: how did you smooth out the mouse motion in your videos? I really find that a nice feature, and would like to replicate it.
Inkscape never fails to amaze! I love Inky, hopefully more designers will begin to pay attention to this amazing free open source software so we can slowly move from Adobe's money hungry claws
Inkscape is getting so good. I've been using it for many years. About the Modular Grid. It would be useful, as a future update, to be able to link X and Y in each setting. It's not critical but would save a bit of time.
It is expected to be released in Inkscape 1.5. There are not too many new features in 1.4 because a lot of time was spent on preparation of changes for CMYK.
Love Inkscape! Such a great tool and gets even better very quickly. My wish for Inkscape would be tools which help and support more to create isometric objects.
Inkscape is amazing! I can't wait until they port to GTK5 (because GTK4 will be over soon, lol) and use Vulkan Also, that tool of CorelDraw where you just "cut" a line would be amazing if it was added!
I wish people would appreciate this free software instead of endlessly whining about its so-called shortcomings. If you’re that bothered, go ahead and throw your cash at Adobe. But maybe stop comparing the tireless work of a handful of dedicated volunteers to the bottomless pockets of a corporate behemoth.
God bless you: My point exactly. As for me, I care less about their industry standard. I will rather, and I am going to throw my money to this group behemoth volunteers of Inkscape(my belovedst), GIMP, Krita, KDENLIVE, LibreOffice, and all of open source free software that are very useful for me and my work. And God bless them immensely for these great software they all are giving us for free.
Thank you for the great video! Very well done. You start with "liquid" artwork. Are you able to share the process you used to create that? I'd like to create something similar. New user here. Cheers! :)
It's from an old tutorial I made a while back. It should still work if you want to try it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7hE5QpM-sz8.htmlsi=W8gG03Lq0DuL7sbc
I love your tutorials, so easy and straight forward. My only problem is that my Inkscape doesn't look anything like yours. Is that because I use it on a laptop and not a Mac? 🤔
Looks like some nice upgrades. I just tried to install 1.4 (Windows) from the official page and got errors due to missing dlls, so I'll wait a bit (gone back to 1.3 for now).
Great overview. One question on "swatches"... I mainly make technical drawings, and I'm curious about whether I can make my own "swatch" list of colors, with "symbolic names"? What I mean is... suppose I have a system with solid (say, copper), liquid (say, water), and gases (say, hydrogen, oxygen). * Is it possible to make my own "swatch" where I define, say "copper", "water", "hydrogen", "oxygen"? * Can I assign some RGB color to each of these colors? * If I have applied the names to some objects, and then regret my chosen RGB values: can I change the RGB values associated with my labels ("copper", "water", "hydrogen", "oxygen"), and then have the objects automatically change to these new RGB values?
It sounds interesting. I'm trying to find if it is compatible with Mac Monterey but don't see any system requirements. Any idea where I might find that info?
The two boolean operations which are based on the shape builder code will do this. If they can. But the other code is all wired differently and to be honest you can just apply clipping paths directly so I'd have to see a solid workflow demonstration to spend the time unwiring it all.
I really wish Inkscape to have a built-in tool for creating 3D text effects easily and intuitive like Adobe Illustrator. Instead of using LPE Clone which is memory hungry and difficult to achieve what we want. I always begging for this feature because I mostly use Inkscape to create Posters and Infographics design, and I love 3D text effects. Now, I know Inkscape is not the right program in creating Posters but I just really love how Inkscape behave, it's so easy to edit text and align objects in Inkscape. If GIMP behave like Inkscape does, I would've use GIMP instead for creating Posters. It's really painful to edit text and align objects in GIMP, there's no guide, there's no snapping feature, there's no multiple layers selection, there's no shape tool, I can't even create a button in a poster in GIMP that still can be modified later if anything wrong, but GIMP just doesn't let that, it's always destructive!
Have you tried Cavalry? you might enjoy it for 3d text poster. its very quick to create interesting vector effect or 3d text and then save to svg or paste/open to any vector program like Inkscape.
I upgraded. The MSI version of the install had a missing libsigc-2.0-0.dll error. The exe install worked fine. Checked Help->About, definitely version 1.4, however my Text and Font panel is still the old style. Windows 11.
Downloaded but will not run the set up even after removing v1,3,2 so had to reload the previous version. Run as Admin does not do anything. Anyone else had this problem on Win 10?
These are good things indeed, but only sad thing is in 2024 and counting we have to download these new updates by going on site, I mean there is no auto-update feature at all.
I, and I may be doing it wrong, always uninstall the current version then clean install the latest version of the software. I never have any issues with conflicts or incompatibility problems. I use a free "uninstall" program for this purpose.
This is mostly because the linux developers all have auto-update built into the operating system. I believe if you install via the Microsoft Store, you would get auto update too.
Sincere doubt: I know it is a free program so it must have much less investment for its development, so certain functions take longer than expected to be implemented. But what is the function of a vector program that does not export in CMYK? What is the advantage of using it instead of Figma, for example, which is free and can do this with community plugins?
Inkscape isn't free, as in beer. It's free as in speech. Which Figma is not. This gets really frustrating to explain as people just don't want to pay for their free software like they really really should be. Pay for your free software guys, otherwise it won't get better as fast as you hope it will.
@@doctormo I also think this way: If people helped with free software, we would have incredible and free tools and you are right in saying that they are not completely free, but free for users. Inkscape seems to have gigantic potential to go head to head with Illustrator, but without being able to produce printed materials, it doesn't make much sense to use it. I know the Scribus workaround, but unfortunately the quality is not that good. I believe that people don't value free things as much, and I hope that mentality changes one day.
@@LogosByNick I understood, I believed that vector files were more used in printing. But don't you believe that this program would be much more widely used with this addition?
@@dougrodrigues I've spent the entire of 2024 working on cmyk for inkscape, you can check out my videos for details. So it is important. But it moves as fast as it's able to move given the resources available. It will come, this is not being ignored.
Still no improvements regarding cmyk? 😭 I do LOVE Inkscape, but this really is something so badly missed.. hoping for 1.5 to arrive soon with that issue finally being solved.. 🥲
