Inkscape for Beginners Circle Infographic Tutorial Video Lecture - Inkscape

this is Nick with logos Viacom and in
today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating
how you can create this simple circular
arrow infographic using Inkscape and at
any point in this tutorial you could
look down at the bottom left hand side
of my screen to see which mouse clicks
and keystrokes I'm using so we'll
minimize this and we'll get started here
in xscape by the way if you'd like to
make Inkscape appear the way you see
here on my screen with the dark theme
and the custom icons I'll have that
information in the description of the
video so the first thing we're going to
do is make sure that the view is set to
custom and then we're going to zoom in
at 1 to 1 and then we'll open up the
alignment distribute menu and we're
going to want last selected chosen from
this drop-down and then we're going to
go to the edit objects color as
gradients and Stroke menu and open that
up so the first thing I'm going to do is
create a circle so let's come over to
this circles and ellipses tool and I'll
hold ctrl and shift in the keyboard and
click and drag to create a big circle
like that and I'm going to take the
opacity and drop that down in half and
then I'll go back to the Select tool and
I'm going to right click the circle and
go to duplicate and I'll turn that red
and then I'll hold ctrl and shift and
I'm going to grab this arrow down here
on the bottom right and just click and
drag the scale that's in about that much
that's a pretty good thickness right
there and then I'll hold shift and click
on the black circle and go to path
difference okay so we have the circle
for our infographic the next step is to
create these little line breaks with the
arrow as you see here so in order to do
that we're going to create a rectangle
so let's come over here to the squares
and rectangles tool and I'm going to
click and drag and go over create a
rectangle going over the top right there
like that maybe about that wide you just
try to eyeball it that's pretty good
thickness right there
and then I'm going to go to the Select
tool I'll right-click this go to
duplicate turn that green and then I'm
going to hold shift and alt and click on
that green rectangle and what that's
going to do is that's going to select
both of these objects right here at the
same time
let me do that again I'll click on that
I'll hold shift and alt and click on the
red one so we haven't both selected and
I'm going to click on the ko over here
to the align panel and click on this
button right here this is aligned top
edges of objects to the bottom edge of
the anchor and that's just going to
stack that on top of it right there and
then I'm going to group that together
this button right here group selected
objects and then I'm going to hold shift
and click on our little ring graphic
here and I'm going to Center it on the
vertical and horizontal axis and then
click off of it to deselect everything
now let's click on these two little
lines right here that we just created
and we're going to ungroup them and then
click off of it to deselect and we'll
take this green object and we'll just
delete that press Delete on the keyboard
to get rid of that we're done with that
now we're going to click on this this
red rectangle and then we're to click on
it a second time to get our rotation
handles and when we do that we're going
to get this little crosshair here in the
center I'm going to hold ctrl on the
keyboard and grab this crosshair and
just click and drag it straight down to
the bottom until it snaps to the bottom
of the red rectangle right there like
that then I'm going to hold ctrl on the
keyboard and take this top hour right
here and you'll see we'll be able to
move this thing around according to its
center point so I'm going to put it
right here at the top and I'm going to
press the spacebar we're holding to
control the entire time we do this going
to press the spacebar and I'm going to
rotate this around to about here maybe
about there press the spacebar again and
then bring this one around to here we're
holding ctrl the whole time we're doing
this and right there I'll just let go of
everything and leave that one right
there then I'm going to hold shift click
on this red shape and then this red
shape so we have all three the red shape
selected and we can go to path Union
then we could hold shift on the keyboard
and click on the black ring in the
background and go to path a difference
so we now have the shape but what we
have to do now is we have to put the
indents in those spaces to make it
appear like it's an arrow so how I'm
going to do that is I'm going to rotate
this thing around so that this gap right
here is sitting up I sitting
horizontally so on there hold ctrl on
the keyboard and grab this top right
hour and just click and drag this down
one
- so for two steps that got that it got
that line horizontal that's what we want
we want this line to be horizontal like
this so we can edit it and put that
indent in there and the way the way that
we're going to do that is we'll go to
the edit pads by nodes tool and I'm
looking at these nodes right here these
four one two three four I'm going to
click and drag with the mouse over those
four nodes just like that and come up
here to the very far left to the button
that says insert new nodes into selected
segments I'll click on that and it's
going to put in two new nodes in there
and what I'm going to do now is I'm
going to click and drag over those two
nodes that we just created so just those
are selected and I'm going to press up
on the keyboard a few times to move
those nodes up so you'll want to pay
attention to how many times you press up
on the keyboard because we're gonna do
this again to these other two gaps so
I'm going to press up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 all right so I moved
that up 15 spaces like that and we're
going to go ahead and do this to the
rest of these so let's go back to the
Select tool we'll click on this again to
get back to our rotation handle and
we're going to rotate this thing around
until this gap is sitting horizontally
so hold ctrl grab this arrow rotate it
around now that's sitting horizontal
like that and again we'll go back to the
edit pads by nodes tool click and drag
over these four nodes click on the
button that says insert new nodes into
selected segments and click and drag
over those two nodes that we just
created and we're going to move that up
15 spaces so I press up on the keyboard
the up key 15 times so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 and we're going to do
this one more time so let's come back to
the Select tool click on this again to
get the rotation handles hold ctrl grab
this arrow and rotate it around until
that gap is sitting horizontally come
back to the sub edit path by nodes tool
click and drag over those right there
insert new nodes click and drag over
these two nodes right here and again 15
spaces 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4
fifteen and then we go back to the
select tool and we can click on this
again to get back to our rotation
handles and we can rotate this thing
back around so it's sitting upright
again like when we started so let me
just hold ctrl and just rotate this
around like that and that's pretty good
we could bring the opacity all the way
up and what I'm going to do now is I'm
going to put a backdrop behind this
thing if you notice here on the
thumbnail I have like a grayish whitish
backdrop going behind it because one of
these segments I'm going to use as white
and so let's come over to the squares
and rectangles tool and I'm just going
to create a rectangle over that over a
little graphic right there like that
we'll go to the Select tool we'll lower
this to the bottom with the button this
is lower selection to the bottom and
I'll hold shift and click on the graphic
right there and we're just going to make
sure that's centered on the vertical and
horizontal axis then we can click off a
to deselect so let's take just this
green this green backdrop right here and
we're going to make this a shade of gray
maybe 20% gray yeah it looks pretty good
I'll use 20% gray and I'm going to give
this a radial gradient on to the filling
stroke tab and under the fill tab click
on the button that says radial gradient
and I'll press G on the keyboard to get
the gradient tool and it's going to show
us these stops here so let's click on
this stop right here and we'll bring the
opacity all the way up and I'm going to
double click on this line right here to
put a new stop in there and I'm going to
take that stop I'm going to click on
that and I'm going to come over here
under the fill tab and under the HSL tab
I'll come down to the L column and slide
that all the way to the right to make
that white and I'll do the same thing to
this stop I'll click on this stop slide
the L column to the right to make that
white and maybe I'll bring this line and
I'll bring this stop in a little bit so
it isn't so abrupt with it out all the
way out here you can kind of see like a
little bit of banding in the gradient we
don't want that we want this to be
smooth a smooth fluid gradient that's
pretty good so we'll go back to the
Select tool let's now work on our
infographic here we'll click on this and
we're going to break this apart into
three separate pieces as you see here
it's all one object but what we could do
is we can go to paths
break apart and it broke that up into
three separate pieces let me click off
that deselect so you can see we now have
three different pieces here that we can
edit however we'd like so the color that
I used here I used an orange is red for
this one right here so let's click off
of that to deselect everything and just
click on this top left-hand right here
and I'm going to make this uh I'm going
to start out with red but I'm going to
make it like an orangish red maybe that
that's pretty good and this one right
here will be white and this one right
here I believe I used a very dark a dark
bluish gray so I'll come down here the
color picker and I'm going to give that
that dark shade of blue and I'll come up
to the s column and just bring that over
a little bit to the left to make that a
little more gray and that looks pretty
good
and what I'm gonna do now is let me
click off with the deselect everything
if you notice here this white one kind
of blends in with the background and I'm
going to get I'm going to fix that by
putting a long shadow behind like you
see here you notice like this little
long shadow to do that I'm going to hold
shift and click on each of these three
segments and then I'll right click that
and go to duplicate I'm go to path Union
and let me come back down here to the
color picker and make this black and I'm
going to go to extension generate from
path and motion and what we're going to
do here I'm going to have the magnitude
set to 800 and the angle set to 45
degrees and let me press live preview to
show you what that does it kind of took
that out it kind of took that and
stretched it out at a 45 degree angle
and a wet at a magnitude of 800 pixels
or whatever unit of measurement that is
so once that's set like that I'll go
ahead and click apply and then close out
and you'll see we have our little uh
what's going to be our drop shadow so
let me lower that to the bottom lower
selection to the bottom and then I'll
raise it up one step raise selection one
step go ahead and click that button so
it goes beneath that goes above the
backdrop and I'm going to take the
opacity of this and bring this down
about that much and if you notice now
you can see the white you can see the
white segment there let me
I get rid of that it disappears again
but since that's there we can kind of
see it so once we've done that let's
click on our backdrop right-click that
and go to duplicate hold shift click on
the long shadow that we just created and
go to object clip say so it took it and
put it within those boundaries so let's
click off of that to deselect and the
next thing we could do here is we could
just fill this in with some information
as you notice here I put one two three
so let me grab the text tool and create
some text I'm going to click on the
canvas to get the cursor I'm going to
write 0 1 and the font I'm going to use
is called Leto or Latta or wood however
that's pronounced I'll use the medium
weight click apply close out of that and
go back to the Select tool and I'm going
to put this right here I'll turn that
white and I'm going to hold ctrl and
shift and scale that down a little bit
so it's not so big that's pretty good
and I'll right-click this and go to
duplicate and I'll put this one over
here in the white segment but I'm going
to make this one the same color that
this one is so we could see it so let me
press f7 on the keyboard to get the
dropper and if that doesn't work you
could also click on the dropper tool
which is over here if you're using a
laptop these icons probably won't be
here there'll be a little arrow down
here if you click on that you'll get a
little popup menu to get the dropper so
or you can just press f7 the keyboard
shortcut like I have and once you have
the dropper you just click and drag over
that segment to make it that color
that's pretty good and we're going to go
back to the text tool so we can edit
that make that too and I'll go back to
the Select tool I'll click on this one
right click duplicate put this over here
go back to the text tool and I'm going
to make that number 3 I'll go back to
the Select tool put that right there and
just for the sake of this tutorial I
kind of put some social media icons
there I think I think the design looks
good when you have some kind of icons
there so I just grabbed these social
media icons so I'm just going to import
my social media icons file I wrote a
blog post a while back where I gave a
file of all the social media icons I
have I'll put a link to that in the
description in case you'd like to
download them
really useful when you're doing design
work so I'm gonna go to file import and
social media icons SVG there it is
I'll double click that to import it and
there's our vector social media icons so
let me ungroup them and again you could
download this file by going to the link
in the description I'll have that
information for you there and I'll click
off of that to deselect and what did I
use here I believe they use Pinterest
for that one and Google+ and then
periscope so let me grab the beyod the
Pinterest icon I'll put this up here
I'll make that white I'll just hold ctrl
and scale that down a little bit like
that and for this one was this Google+
take the Google+ icon put this right
here
hold ctrl scale it down and I'll press
f7 and get the dropper again so we can
make it this shade will go back to the
Select tool and finally I used periscope
for that one so let me grab the
periscope logo and put that right there
make that white hold ctrl and scale that
down and then finally we could just put
some dummy text in here you notice here
I posted I tasted some of that that
lorem ipsum whatever that is I'm just
going to go ahead and minimize that I'll
grab the text tool I'm going to start
the text out right here I'm just gonna
write this is some text let me bring the
size of that down let me try a smaller
size maybe like 14 that's pretty good
I'll go back to the Select tool let me
put this over here and I'll make this
white go back to the text tool and again
I'm just going to keep writing that over
again this is some text this is
that's pretty good like that let me get
get rid of that one right there and you
can put whatever you want there that sir
we could fill in the information or
whatever you'd like going to hold ctrl
and shift and scale that down a little
more then I'll right-click that and go
to duplicate I'll put this over here and
I'll right-click this and go to
duplicate and I'll put this over here
but I'll press f7 to get the dropper so
I can make this the same shade that is
go back to the Select tool and let me
get rid of all these I don't need these
anymore and as you can see we're pretty
much done there's our very simple
infographic using Inkscape let me just
make sure I didn't miss anything yeah
that looks that looks about right so
that's how you can do that if you have
any questions let me know and as always
thank you for watching