Hi Nick. Great video as always! Just a comment: you say Inkscape can't select objects by just touching them with the selection box, but it actually can. When using the selection tool, there's a (relatively new) button in the options toolbar that acts as a toggle for that bevahior.
So things that are missing are: - CMYK (can have workarounds) - Appearance settings (like multiple strokes) - 3D (might be useful for complex isometric drawings) Things that are there already: - Charts tools (someone mentioned it) - Shape builder (You didn't mention this and it was the top reason that made inkscape a real alternative for me) - Image to vector (another very convenient tool, don't know when they added it, but very nice)
I use GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, KDEnLive, DarkTable, and more. they have improved a lot in recent years, that they become viable substitute to the mainstream software.
Blender can definitely compete or even surpass the big players in the 3D industry, but the others not so much especially Gimp they really need to work on UX/UI that program is unintuitive af
@@rajendrameena150 yes, blender is very good in 3D modeling, Rendering, animation, sculpting. But the Video editing and Image painting has basic functionalities only. KDEnLive is not super good like Davincci, but good enough for my application. Sometimes I use Blender Video Editing when it only involve clips output from Blender. For video captured, I use KDEnLive. For Audio I use Audacity. GIMP feels clumsy if you first jump in from Photoshop. It require some learning, and do not expect to use the exact method, apart from the AI, there is always work around.
I'm not a designer, but for the few things I do with designing software, I use inkscape. I've been using it for almost 10 years. The only thing that is missing and I hope they include is the cmyk support. Inkscape is a powerful tool.
Another excellent video - thanks Nick. Inkscape does have chart capabilities under Extensions/Render/Nicecharts/Chart type, though I prefer to draw charts using rectangle and circle tools etc for greater control. I like Illustrator's ability to apply multiple strokes - hopefully Inkscape will add this soon.
@@doctormo I assume more than one stroke can be applied to an object in Illustrator. E.g. a rectangle could have a 1 mm red stroke on top of a 2 mm blue stroke on its perimeter.
I love Inkscapes color pallete at the bottom for sures made my first Inkscape graphic awhile ago and would ♥️ to fully converting over from Illustrator as soon as my most recent client work is finished, but them Stroke Features I need for sure & the 3D & CMYK formating doh'! I love how it isn't botchy or laggy like Illustrator is and now that you showed your video about the 5 things not including 6th code sharing 😂 that Illustrator can't do, I know exactly what I will be Cloning! Thanks again Nick for Fantastic Tutorials! Bless!
Pretty interesting way in which Illustrator makes use of a tool for each action. Specifically for the Width Tool, which I think makes all sense to have. May be discussable.🤔
Actually there is a toggle button in the controls bar when using the Selector tool, using that you can switch to selecting everything that is touched by the box, like in Illustrator
Very informative. it's a shame I am a beginner as far as Inkscape is concerned. watching a video as such this certainly helps but still expect a long learning curve tho.
It took me several attempts to become fluent with Inkscape, but it was definately worth it. RU-vid was a great help - in particular Logos by Nick and Photoadvanced2 had great tutorials.
Those are all the main differences I've seen when switching few years ago from Corel to Illustrator minus the new tools like rounding corners - but as far as I remember Inkscape was based on Corel workflow, so no surprises here. I would give it a chance if it was not for the CMYK. ps. I still found path editing (bezier curves) very non intuitive in Illustrator - it was way way easier in Corel.
To any newbies into graphic designing : it's good to learn all the basics of vector graphics in Inkscape.. but once you have all that down, switch to illustrator asap cos it becomes a 1000 times more powerful and intuitive to use than Inkscape. Telling this as a self taught illustrator user after learning to use Inkscape from vids of this channel.
Clicking twice on object for roation is a bad advice for Inkscape, because it's sometimes buggy with multiple layers and groups and doesn't function properly, or sometimes node selction gets openned instead. A good practice is getting used to using Shift + S, which is the keybind for Rotating, or make your own keybind. Keybind always works properly, clicking doesn't.
Thank you for all the tips! One thing that I haven't been able to find using Inkscape is whatever the equivalent is to using the Shift key to drag something in place or if I wanted to resize something with the same proportions. It seems like using Shift while dragging with a mouse is very "freestyle" and I am losing a lot of the placement and shape that I want. What is the "Shift key" equivalent?
At 2:00, the menu you mentioned gets cluttered after we add 4-5 tabs and start covering the working screen. At 4:30, you are wrong, we can select object just by touching them, you can simply toggle this behaviour from the button at top left. It is like window/crossing selection toggle found in cad softwares.
3:50 you are talking about selection. in version 1.2 or earlier you have a similar selection mode as in Illustrator. "Toggie selection box to selesct all touched objects". In the upper left corner.
I have had reports of users using Inkscape for photo editing... it does happen. Though mostly for VERY basic things like cropping, blending and a few other things.
Are there smart guide for GIMP? I found that is really useful when im designing using canva, and i wish there is one with gimp since i spend a lot designing in it.
Experienced user of Illustrator here... there is one point that is crucial for me, as I work more on a graphic tablet - does Inkscape support drawing tablets and more than one monitor? I have never used the soft before, but I guess it does have support of tablets, bc different people need different workflows. Thank you!
It does support tablets. Don't know what you mean by supporting multiple monitors. You can detach some of the menus, like fill and stroke menu and move it
It supports tablets with pressure. The Calligraphy tool works well for creating inked lines and works by making a filled shape. The other drawing tools, which stroke linear paths, do work, but they weren't really designed around tablet input, so they have some surprising behaviors when using pressure, and it can be easier to manage them by going in afterwards with the Power Stroke effect and adjusting by hand.
Interpolate and scatter is in the menu, it’s better if Inkscape add a dedicated Blend tool and a 3D tool. Many occasions these two tools are helpful. I like Inkscape more since it’s lot lighter than illustrator and I am a hobbyist.
One of the huge issues that confront Illustrator users, and Photoshop users as well, is that the creative cloud library can't be migrated to Inkscape, that I know of anyway. Is there a way to over come this so that we don't have to lose all our saved assets and color swatches?
Is there a possibility to copy eg a square and resize it around center point and to an edge? I hate that I can´t do it in one flow and have to move the object around for sqaures or circle they have same distance
@@muhaiminilias9402 its not working. crtl-shift resize not around center point. it is the same it resize to on edge as normal? You are right if you mean that it resize around centre point when I draw it first time not an existing drawing. It resize allways around the opposite square. If I take the upper left sqaure and resize, it resize arount the right bottom square.
It's gonna be so over for Illustrator when Inkscape updates with a cmyk support. It'a a shame designers are so dependent on big corporations who only want to suck money out of them :(
I think Affinity is already almost there. I switched to Affinity Designer (and Publisher, Photo). One low price and I own it. It does most of what I used to do in Illustrator with a few exceptions that I miss but not that much. I'm creating a whole manual in Publisher and liking it but I never tried the Adobe version.
Did the new Inkscape version add any ability to do multiple layered path styles? (One thing I missed having from Illustrator.) There's supposedly some script thing in Inkscape that may work, but it's not WYSWYG intuitive the last time I used it.
I can't export Layers from inkspace in such a way so i can work further in After Effects to animate the art.
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Hi Nick, this "private community" one gains access to when buying your courses, is it on a third-party website (like Facebook or Discord) or is it a forum you host?
Could you weigh in on how to convert files between the two programs? I want to be able to switch between the two without issue, but when I open pdf files I made in Inkscape in Illustrator I notice the sizing is different. A stroke that was set to 0.1 pt for instance will suddenly be 0.123 pt in Illustrator.
This may be an unavoidable issue but I would make sure you're saving the PDF document in Illustrator's native DPI, which is 72 DPI. If that doesn't do the trick then I'm not sure what else can be done. These issues are just an unfortunate consequence of working cross-platform.
Tried downloading it to my Mac. Got some odd extension window (I hate that you can't copy and paste the nonsense in these windows.). No idea what to do with it. All the information online is arcane. I've kept an old MacBook at 2016 so I can use Illustrator CS5.5. I don't use it a lot (certainly not worth $40/month.) Guess that's what I'll keep doing. "Quit and open Safari Extensions Preferences..." I don't even use Safari. Guess I don't use Inkscape.
You might have missed what you get of new and different when going to Inkscape? The opposite from what you loss from illustrator to Inkscape but not sure that there is things you gain)
So strange that it still lacks cmyk support. I don't know if the same is true for Gimp, but it was for the longest time - arguably it should be more important for inkskape, though, since it's more likely to be used for logos and graphical profiles.
This really does seem like an add for illustrator. Dont worry guys to replicate this simple illustrater effect we can open 50 menus and find the same thing.
Altought is usefull to know how to use both. In my company i use both since there are things that inskape does faster than ilustrator. Plus some usefull things like barcodes and measurements, that for some strange rwason ilustrator don't have
