Inkscape Beginner Tutorial: Inner Shadow Effect Video Lecture | Inkscape:Design Tutorial for Beginners - Design Softwares

this is mixed logos by mix comm and in
today's tutorial I'm going to be
demonstrating how you can create this
inner shadow effect using Inkscape it
creates the appearance that is if like
this shape is kind of cut into the
surface and it's casting a shadow inside
of the subject here and there's an
extension with in Inkscape I believe
that will do this for you but the way
I'm going to show you today is it's
going to be a manual way of doing things
work which will give you far more
control over the outcome you'll be able
to determine which direction the shadow
goes how transparent it is or how it
help blurt it is as you see here so the
way I'm going to show you it's not too
difficult and it gives you a lot more
control over the the outcome of the
design so let's get started here with
Inkscape by the way if you'd like to
know how you can make Inkscape appear
darken with these custom icons I'll have
a link to that information in the
description of the video so let's go
ahead and set up our document we'll go
to file document properties and I'm
going to change the display units to px
for pixels and I'm just going to turn
off the page border show page border
uncheck that close out and we'll go to
view we're going to want custom selected
and then we'll zoom in at 1 to 1 open up
the align and distribute menu with this
button up here and you're going to want
last selected chosen from this drop-down
and then we'll open up the Edit objects
colors gradients and Stroke menu with
that button there so for this tutorial
I'm just going to use letters I'm just
going to use like the letter A instead
of using here looking the thumbnail I
use the Inkscape logo I'll just use the
letter A I'm just going to grab the text
tool click on the canvas and I'm going
to use a capital A we go to the scale
the Select tool and hold ctrl and grab
this arrow to scale this up and I'm
going to use a different font for this
I'm going to use the font it's called I
just click the text button up here the
font is called chunk 5 you could use any
font you'd like but I would suggest to
using a heavyweight font that's pretty
thick and has a lot of like you don't
want to use a really
in font otherwise there's really no room
for you to see the shadow so in order
for this to work we're going to have to
change this from a text object to just a
pure path and in order to do that we're
going to pass object to path and now
that's no longer a text object that we
can edit and now we'll just click the
ungroup button as well so that's now if
you go to the edit pad by noticible
you'll see these individual nodes here
that's now about half so what we're
going to do now is when we go back to
the Select tool I'm going to make this
I'm going to make this a color that's
slightly darker than the background that
it's on so like a really light shade of
gray and maybe I'll make this a little
darker so you can see it better under
the fill tab and under the HSL tab you
could adjust the L column over here
to adjust it to your liking I think
that's pretty good right there and what
I'm going to do now is I'm going to grab
the squares and rectangles tool and I'm
going to click and drag and create a
rectangle going over that object and I'm
going to make that black and I'm going
to take the opacity of that and bring
that down about in half and I'll go to
the Select tool and I'm going to click
and drag over all of this and I want to
Center it up on the vertical axis and on
the horizontal axis and then I'm going
to hold shift and click on the black
rectangle to deselect that and we're
just going to have the object here which
is the letter A selected and with that
selected I want to duplicate that by
hitting ctrl D on the keyboard and then
I'll hold shift on the keyboard with
that selected and then click on the
rectangle again and go to path
difference so now we have that rectangle
with the shape of the letter A punched
through it like that and what I'm going
to do now is I'm going to click on this
letter A and I'm going to duplicate that
again by hitting ctrl D on the keyboard
and I want to make this copy red and
I'll just bring the opacity of this down
about less than 50% maybe 40% like that
and I'm going to take this black
rectangle right here this black
rectangle is going to represent it
that's going to be the object that
represents the inner shadow here so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in
on this a little bit by holding ctrl and
rolling up the mouse we
now I'm going to click and drag this
down to the right a little bit and if
you notice where the black area
intersects with the the red area that's
where the shadow is going to be so if
you want your shadow to be going from
the top left to the down to the bottom
right like it is here then place the
object here if you want it going the
other way move it over here or you just
move it over there like that for this
tutorial I'm going to move it down into
the right like this and once I've done
that I'm going to hold shift and click
on the letter A so we have the rectangle
and the letter A selected and go to
object click set and what we can do now
is we could bring the opacity of that up
and come over to the blur tool and just
click up on that to give that a little
bit of a blur and you'll see that we
have a shadow in there now and for this
I'm using a one-point shadow I'm going
to bring the opacity of that down a
little bit and let me zoom out a little
bit by holding ctrl or rolling down the
mouse-wheel and then you'll see we have
our inward shadow set now let me show
you another way you can alter this I'm
going to click on the shadow object make
sure you click on the shadow object
itself and not the actual letter A
you'll know by this by this stripe down
here in the bottom left corner it'll be
the color of the objects like this a is
a light gray you'll see here in the
bottom left it's a light gray if I click
on the actual shadow it'll turn that
little stripe will be black so once I
have that black stripe this object
selected I'll go to object clip release
and then I'll click off that to deselect
everything and what I'm going to do now
is take this object I'm going to get rid
of the blur by bringing that back down
to zero and then I'll hold shift and
click on the letter A and just Center it
up on the vertical and horizontal axis
again so it's lined up and then I'll
hold shift and click the letter A again
to deselect it and what I'm going to do
now is I'm going to give this this black
rectangle an outline otherwise known as
a stroke so to do that I'll hold shift
and click on the color black and it's
going to put an outline going around the
rectangle and as you can see it bleeds
into the red area of the letter A and
once we've done that we could hold shift
click the letter A and go to object
click set
and give this a blur as well and as you
can see what that did there is that put
the shadow everywhere within the letter
A instead of just coming in from one
direction like that but if you wanted to
come in from a direction you just do it
how I previously did it so that's how
you can create something like that using
Inkscape so if you have any questions
let me know and as always thanks for
watching
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