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1. Introduction to Inkscape: Hello, I'm Nancy more an artist, illustrator and working to become a surface pattern designer. There are so many things that you can do with Inkscape. And one of them is to take hand-drawn elements and turn them into vector-based graphics. With today's class, I want to get you started learning the basics. Have you ever seen a notebook with a pretty floral pattern on it or some gift wrap up with the cutest design and thought, Hey, how can I get my pattern onto something like that? Or even thought that it was a possibility. Well, I'm here to tell you, friend, that it is a possibility. It is a process called surface pattern design, a process used to digitize your artwork into physical products. Hello, I'm named Seymour and I'm the founder of projects studio 235, am currently building my portfolio of patterns to one day licensed them to be printed on products such as coffee cups, gift wrap, or notebooks. When getting started with illustrating, I was looking around for the most economical way to be able to do this process. And I came across a program called Inkscape, which is a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator, which has a monthly subscription. First things first though, we need to learn how to make a digital illustration, because those illustrations, they are the integral step of learning surface pattern design. So who is this class for? This class is for those who are wanting to get started in illustrating and who don't want to break the bank of learning a new skill. Today I will be covering a few basic tools to get started in Inkscape. I will cover how this free program works, how to create elements using some of those tools, and how to modify those elements to personalize your work. By the end of this class, you will have used some of the tools in Inkscape to learn how to create a colorful geometric design. So let's get started. I can't wait to have you join my class.
2. Project intro : Hello and welcome to the introduction to my class. Getting started with Inkscape. Inkscape is a vector-based illustrating program that is very similar to Adobe Illustrator, although it is free to download and use. By taking this class, you'll learn the basics of being skate. Throughout each lesson, I will show you some of the tools to get you started designing. By the end of the class, you'll have learned how to create elements, how to modify them to your personal liking, and how to arrange them in such a way as to create a new digital design. The project for this class is to create a geometric design which will include squares, circles, rectangles, and stars. I will walk you through all the steps needed to create these different elements for this project. Let's get started.
3. Setting up Inkscape: In this lesson, I'll show you where to find the Illustrating software Inkscape and how to download the free program. If you don't already have Inkscape downloaded on your computer, go to Inkscape.org. Click Download Now and select what operating systems do you have on your computer? I use Windows. You'll want to know if it's 32-bit or 64-bit. And then you should be able to download the program from there. In this lesson of setting up Inkscape, we covered where to find the program, and that was www.Inkscape.org. And you will need to select the correct operating system that your computer is using. And if you are using Windows, you will need to know if it is 32-bit or 64-bit. Next, I will show you how to set up a new document in Inkscape.
4. New document: In this lesson, I'll show you how to open a new document and make changes to the document properties after you download the program to your computer, open Inkscape, and it will pull up a new document, go to File and Save As. And then you'll want to save your document to whatever you want to title it as, pick the location of where you want it to be. So now any changes we make to this document, you will want to control safe or file save very often that way you don't lose any changes that you make. The document opens with a black border for your page. We're going to change our document properties, go to File Document Properties, whatever unit of measurement you're used to. You can use that to have shown. You can use pixels, centimeters, inches, I use inches. That's just what I'm used to. And I set my page up to be a regular US letter size 8.5 by 11. You can change it to be portrait or landscape. Just depends on how you want to design your design. And for the border of the document, you can either leave the black line showing or if you tick this checkbox, Show page quarter, if you untick it, then those lines go away and I will leave them off. I will discuss this enables snapping tool a little later. But for right now, if it is blue, it is turned on. If I want to turn it off, disable snapping, we won't need it on for the beginning demonstrations. So that is how you set up your document to begin to design. In this lesson of the new document, we covered how to open a document and save it, giving it the name that we want and selecting the location of where we want to save it. We also covered how to set up document properties, and that was the size of the document. And if we wanted to leave the border lines on or turn them off. Next, I will show you some of the basic shape tools in Inkscape.
5. Shape tools: In this lesson, I'll show you a few of the tools used to make different shapes and elements. Okay, Now we will cover some of the basic tools of Inkscape to get you designing. We have this black arrow is the selection tool. We have the create rectangles and squares tool. So we will click that one time, hold down your left mouse button and drag it out. With my left mouse button being held down, you can change the shape of the square. You can try to eyeball and get your square perfectly square. While my cursor is still showing this square, instead of trying to eyeball and make the square what I think is a perfect square. If you hold down Control key while pressing your left mouse button, it will create a perfect square, let go of control and left mouse button. And you have a square, select the selection tool, and now you click on it and move those shapes around. If you look at this one that we thought was square, it does look a little taller than it is wide, but right here is how wide it is and the height of the shape that we made. So we can see that it is actually taller and it shows the dimensions of the width and the height. If I click on this square, it shows that it's perfectly formatted to be a square. Now we can change this 1.8623. If I change this point 86 to hit Enter, and it changes it to be the perfect square. So you have a couple options when making the shapes, we will change the shape of this one. You can change it if you hover over this arrow and click and dry, and you can change the height of it or the width individually. If you click this diagonal arrow, you can change the width and the height independently of each other. This lock between the width and height, right now it is grayed out. If you click it, it turns blue. It means it's enabled. And this shape is now locked at 3.174. If I move it diagonally, it's going to keep it proportionally squared. Now I can still change height than width individually, but if I move it diagonally, it keeps it in proportion. Another shape tool that we will cover is the create circles and ellipses tool. Same thing with the circle tool. You can create ellipses more wide, more tall. And then if you hold down Control key, left mouse, button and click and drag, it will give you a perfect circle. I'm going to hit the selection tool and move these out of the way. Going to hit Delete on my keyboard and delete that one. Delete that one as well. Maybe the circle over. And you have another tool to talk about is the stars and polygon tool. You click that and you can select either a polygon or a star. While your left mouse button is pressed down, you can rotate it in size, your shaped to have or you want. We can increase the amount of foreigners that the shape pass by, bumping that up. And now it's an octagon with the eight corners. So I want to click off of that. Now I want a regular star. That will be okay for a shape, but I actually want a five cornered store. So I'm going to draw another one. And then I'm gonna come down here with that star selected. I'm going to bump those corners back down to 5. One more shape that we have to cover is the spiral. And click that. Pull down your left mouse button and drag it out. With that tool, you can increase and decrease the amount of terms that the line of going around for this one, it's fine. I'm going to change this, so I'm going to increase the turns to that control S wave done several shapes. So you wanna make sure you save your work that has increased the terms in my shape, go to my selection tool, the tools in Inkscape, you can either select what you want by clicking on them, going along the top menu and finding them through there. Or you can use keyboard shortcut. And I have found those to be more helpful for me. Say you are finished and drawing your spiral and you wanted to select it and move it. If you hit S, then you can move it around. You don't have to come all the way back over here and click the black arrow. You can hit S and it will allow you to select the different shapes. So those are some of the basic shapes that we can use in Inkscape. In this lesson of the shape tools, we covered, the arrow selection tool that create rectangles and squares tool that creates circles and Ellipse tool, that creates stars and polygon's tool and also the create spirals tool. Next, I will show you the busy a tool.
6. Bezier tool: In this lesson, I'll show you the busy a tool and how it works. Alright, so now we will look at the busy a tool. I am going to move these out of the way to down from the spiral is the Bezier curves and straight lines tool. Click that with a busy a tool you can hand draw your shapes instead of using the other tools. If you want, click once and move your mouse, click again, left mouse button clicks will give you corners. If I get really close without making this square term red, if I click right there, the shape is not closed when I'm using this tool and I want to close off the shape, I need to make sure that that square turns red. I click one more time and it closes the shape and fill it with color. I can also make a shape with making the corners curved. So click one time and this time I'm going to click, but I'm going to keep my left mouse button held down and that will curve a corner. Let go, drag it around, click and drag, let go. I'm just moving my cursor around. Click and hold. And it will create a curve for you. Click one time and it closes that shape off. One more thing you can do with the Bezier tool. You draw a diamond. It doesn't have to be perfect. It can be a little wonky. So say it's like this. I go up here, not the black arrow but the one right underneath it. It's edit paths by Nodes tool, click that one time. The little diamonds are called nodes and it allows you to edit the shape of anything. All of the elements that you design an escape uses notes, so anything can be changed her edited by manipulating these notes. So again, on this one, if you select the node, hit Delete on your keyboard, select this one, hit Delete on your keyboard. It gives you these handles and you can change the way a shape looks by moving these around. Hit S on your keyboard, like to Selection Tool. And you have a leaf shape out of a diamond. It keeps you a little bit of freedom. You don't have to hand draw a leaf. You can create one just by making a diamond and deleting some of the nodes. And there you've got leaf shape out of the Bezier tool. In this lesson of the Bezier tool, we talked about how we can draw straight lines are curved lines. When wanting to draw a closed shape, we must connect the beginning and ending points to close the shape we covered how to edit elements by deleting nodes. And with the Bezier tool, we learned, we can have a little more freedom with it and we don't have to hand draw each element. Next, I will show you how to color these shapes.
7. Colors (Fill and Stroke): In this lesson, I'll show you how to color the elements that you make. I'll discuss how the elements can have an outline or not, and I'll show you a neat tool to match up colors. So now we will color the shapes and you have a few options of coloring them. So if you click on a shape that you want field down here at the bottom, you have several shades of different colors to pick from. Or if you go to fill and stroke, you also have different ways of filling your shape. So we will select it and we will just change it to this fuchsia color. And notice over here it shows some more options. We can change this one, we can select blue on that. Let's make our leaf green and this one green as well. Now if you notice they have a black line around them that is called the stroke. Shapes can have a stroke or not have a stroke. It is up to you and how you design your work or what you want the finished piece to look like. So with this polygon, we will remove the stroke. If I select any of these colors, I don't have to hit another button. I can just select the shape, select the color. But if I want to change the stroke quickly, I can come down here to this x at the very left side. Hold down shift and click the X and the stroke disappears, or you can do it over here, select your stroke and click this x also, and that gets no stroke color. You can also change the color of your stroke to be any color you want. Now if I select yellow, It's going to turn the green fill color yellow. So control Z will change it back to green. I need to hold down shift click and it changes the stroke color. And we will cover some of these other shapes. I want to change this one to that color, that one to a darker green. I'm going through my designing and I really like this color. I want this to match hypothetically, let's say we don't know which one that was. There is another way to be able to just pick this color and you don't have to guess. And was it this shade or the shade? There is a tool for that and it's called the eyedropper tool, and it's down here second from the bottom, pick colors from image. So I've got my octagon selected. I click the Eyedropper tool and I hover over what color I want. Left mouse button click, and it changes my octagon to the same purple color. Now if you click on white, it will change it white, any color that you hover over, it'll change to. So to get back to your selection tool, hit S on your keyboard, control essay, and that is how you color your shapes and how to add a stroke or remove it altogether. In this lesson of colors, fill and stroke, we covered that we can color each element with either the color bar at the bottom or the Fill and Stroke panel. On the right-hand side, we covered how shapes can have a stroke or not. And remember, a stroke was the outline of the element to use the color bar at the bottom when changing the stroke color or turning it on or off, remember to hit the Shift key while selecting the color and to match up colors quickly, we covered how to use the eyedropper tool. Next, we will cover how to rotate and scale the shapes.
8. Rotate and scale: In this lesson, I'll show you how you can rotate the elements and how to change the size of the elements or the scale of them. So now we will talk about how to rotate the shapes this octagon, I would like this to be more straight. I can zoom in down here at the bottom, I can see it a little better. Your left and right movements are on this bar, or you can click these arrows and then you have your up and down movement on this bar. If I click the shape one time, I have my adjustment arrows, but if I click the object one more time, I get arrows that turn into the curved arrow. And that is to be able to rotate the shape. I'm going to rotate it to make this line a little more straighter. You can do that with any of your shapes when wanting to rotate your shape. And you want to get to change your arrows to rotate it, click two times slowly. Clicking 2 times fast will take you back to be able to draw another spiral. So that is not what I wanted to do. I need to hit S on my keyboard for the selection tool and click it one more time. That will give me the arrows to be able to rotate it. And you can rotate any shape you have on your document. Control S save. If I click at one time, again, I can change the size of it. I can make it smaller or bigger. Now I want to go back down here to these other shapes, but I can't quite see them. And to save time, instead of scrolling over and zooming out, if I hit the Minus key on my keyboard, it allows me to zoom out the minus and plus sign. That is by the numbers on your keyboard, will give me the zoom in and out quicker then coming down here and getting it. Same thing with this guy. We can move them around, click them again, and rotate them around. And let's make him a little more skinny so you can change the shape of anything that is within the document just by moving with these arrows. So that was rotate and scale. In this lesson of rotate and scale, we covered to click the element one time for the scaling arrows, to click the element two times to get to the rotation arrows. Although I covered how to enable the lock on a previous lesson, I want to emphasize it here also, to remember to enable the lock to keep your proportions correct when scaling the element. Next, we will cover the position of the elements.
9. Raise and lower: In this lesson, I'll show you how you can move the elements behind each other within the document, we will cover how to move and position of these elements around with other elements. Say you want the spiral underneath that square, or you want the starburst on top of everything. And we'll show you how to do that. I want the starburst, but I wanted to make him a different color than the star. So let's make it that teal color. I don't want this spiral, so I'm going to select it and hit Delete on my keyboard. And this leaf, I don't want that one either. I'm going to make this rectangle longer so I can see it with the other shapes. These four buttons right here change your selections. They will either bring them all the way to the top. Inkscape uses the order that you created your shapes to where they fall in this relation. If they're not, they're on one layer in Inkscape, but in correlation with each other, they're higher or lower. So we treat this rectangle first and this leaf last. When I bring this leaf over here, it's on top of it. So if I want this leaf under the rectangle, I can click this lower selection to bottom and it puts it underneath the rectangle. Now if I wanted to bring it back up top race selection to talk, I'm actually going to rotate this one back around diagonal like that, because there are so many elements and we want to position them a particular way. We're going to use these middle buttons, lower selection one step, and race selection one step. So now I'm going to get everything. Circle needs to be dark colors, we can see it and the starburst is gonna come over here. So this starburst, I want on the very top, I know that for sure sees over the circle, but he's under everything else. With the starburst selected, I will choose race election to top. And now he's over everything. I'm going to select everything and move it down here so I can see a little better, not such in the corner. So now I want to move this circle all the way to the bottom, my store. I want to start bringing him up layer by layer to see where I want to place them. So if I raise him one time, he goes above the polygon, but still under the blue, whatever shape this is and under the leaf. So I want to click back on the star to make sure that's the one I'm moving. Raise him up. I think it's good there. My spiral. I want the spiral up. Steps also. There we go. Now I'm going to move the leaf down just a little bit that it's good for him. I'm going to make him a little bigger. So that covered how to move them over and under within the shapes that we have in this lesson, I have raise and lower. We covered how to move the element all the way to the bottom. If you have a group of elements, we covered how to move the element all the way to the top of the bunch. And we also covered how to move an element up or down one step at a time between multiple elements. Next, I will show you how to export this design to be a picture.
10. Save and export: In this lesson, I'll show you how to export your design to make a PNG picture. So now we can export this design to be a picture, to be able to post in the gallery. Remember to control S, to save. I want to select everything. And everything that is selected has this dotted line around it. If I went right here, I'm getting the rectangle, but I'm not quite getting the circle or the spiral, then those two would be left out of my final picture. I'm too. So you wanna make sure and get everything that you have. And now everything is selected. Go to File Export PNG image, and it comes up over here on the side. And now we'll make sure it's in inches in this width and height shows you that the overall picture of your final design will be 11 inches wide by 7.1 inches tall. I can change that if I want to if I knew I wanted it not quite so big, I can make sure my lock is enabled and I can make it a little smaller. And now see that change to be a little over 7.5 inches long. One thing that you want to make sure, no matter the size of the image, you want your dpi to be 300. Click Export As. And this is going to show you what to title your picture As. And you want to select where you want to save your picture to. Main this geometric test. Leave PNG as your type of file and click Save. Now that has not finished exporting it. That didn't do anything. The only thing that did was give what you want to name the picture and where you want to save it at it didn't finish saving. And make sure you have to click this Export button to finalize making it this design a picture. But before we do that, we want to check this box right here to close when complete, this export panel will go away because you're going to only export one time. You're going to close one complete. So now if I click Export, it ran the progress bar really quick. The export panel went away. So now we know that that has saved. And down here at the bottom it shows the drawing was exported to the location you selected. And that was some of the basic tools of Inkscape. In this lesson of save and export, we covered where to find the option to export it was under file. When exporting, you need to double-check the size of your image that it is not too big or too small for the size that you are wanting. The DPI of the image must be 300. Click Export As to give your design a name and to select the location of where you want to save your picture. And to finish exporting your design, you must select the Export button to save the picture. Next, I will walk you through the project for this class to be able to post in the gallery.
11. Inkscape class project: The project for this class is to be a geometric design. And using the tools that I've already covered, you will draw shapes, color them, and position them over each other and create a square with different colors, squares in it. I'll walk you through on what needs to be done. So if you follow along and then save your project, you will have a finished project to post in the gallery. After this class is over, I have opened a new document. I had saved it to the name and the location where I want to keep it. I have turned off the page border again, that's File Document Properties and tick this checkbox will allow you to remove the borders. We will make our project bigger than 8.5 by 11 by removed it. So it's out of the way. Grab the square tool, hold down control. Make your square S for selection, we're going to make multiple squares. Before I jumped to duplicating them. I want to make this single one the size that I want all of them to be. That way, it saves you a step of having to change the squares at the end. We have it right now, it's two almost 2.5 inches. I have the lock on. So any change that I make will make it to both the width and height. And I want my square to be three inches. So select the size that the width is, type in 3 on your computer and enter, it changes the width and height to three inches. I'm going to make this one and this pink color right now. And I have a stroke on my element. I do not want that on there. So with it selected, I will come down to the x, hold down shift and hit X and it makes it go away. Control S save with a square selected, I'm going to hit Control D and it duplicated it. Now we are going to enable snapping. So if I try to move this and get it right, butt it up against it. If you look closely, you can see this line and you know, those aren't directly against each other with the snapping on, I want to meet up this corner with this corner. So I'm going to select my second square close to the corner that I want to snap, hold down and drag and it popped it right up against that one. I'm going to duplicate and do the same thing. I know I want this corner over here, so I'm going to click it and drag and let it snap, Control D duplicate. Snap one more time. I want to change the second square and the fourth square to a different color. So I selected my second one and I'm going to hold down Shift, select my fourth square and I'm going to change those to that color. I'm going to hit minus on my keyboard to zoom out just a little bit. Select all five squares, Control D duplicate. And snap again. Control D, duplicate that. So i'm, I'm gonna go grab two rows of squares, Control D to duplicate. And it's grabbed both of those rows. Snap Control S, save. And I want to change this square, this color. So with that square highlighted, I'm going to hit D and select it. This, click this square because I want it back to the peak D. This, I'm going to change this one to that color and this one to that color Control S save. And then I want, Let's do multiple selections here. So we're going to match this row to this row. So I don't want this square and shift this square d, that dusty rose S selection. This square shift, the square D Control S for save. Let's change these to back to the peak. See what we've got here. If you click the white background, it will deselect where you have selected or so. Select the middle top, come down diagonal, hold down, Shift, select that one, can come down diagonal and hit that one. And we're going to change those. We use this for what's select, see how we look. And you can just mess with colors to see what you think looks good. You like it. Bride change it and Control S to save it. We want this one come down, diagonal, hold down, Shift, select that one diagonal, select this one, diagonal down, this one, diagonal, this one. And this time you can come down and try to select the one you think it is, or it's easier, hit D and select the color that you already have this selection. And that'll change those to be the exact color you already used instead of clicking No, It wasn't that one. It was one over here type of thing. Okay, and now we want to select the outside of this cross section. So the top one or down shift, the left square, bottom squared, right square, and then select another color Control, S save and look, we have the start to arch geometric design. So now we want to add in some different elements besides just the squares that's go to circles. Click on the circle tool, hold down Control, left mouse click in dry. They're going to go over the squares so we don't want them too big. We can adjust them in just a minute. Selection, I want my circle to be white. I'm going to scroll all the way back to the left. My circle is selected and I'm going to make him white. There could be good. You make your design however you want. I'm going to make it a little bigger. First, I need to show you how to align the circle over the square. I'm going to go to my Align and Distribute selection. And I need to select my square and my circle. So hold down Shift and click your circle and you notice the little dotted line is around both of them. Your relative to is selection area, That's what you have selected, That's what you want to align. So that is correct. We want to send. On vertical axis and horizontal axis. And now it didn't move the square, but it move this circle to be perfectly centered over that square. Now, I want to make it a little bigger. So if I hold down some moving this diagonal arrow, leaving it locked, you don't change that. So moving this diagonal arrow hold down shift will allow the circle to get bigger from the center. So if I only held down arrow key it when move it right and down, made it bigger that way, like this. And that's not what I wanted. I wanted to leave it centered over the square so I can see we will do that again. So don't worry if you didn't quite catch it. So I want to duplicate this circle and put it over another square, Control D. Again, it looks like nothing happened, but if you move it, it's there. So let's put him, you can do circle over each outer square or you can just put it how you want. And again, put your circle where you want it. Select the square that's directly behind the circle. Hold down, Shift, select the circle. And again, center, center in is perfectly centered over that square. Control S, save, I want another circle Control D down over this one. Like a square. Select the circle, center, center control S, or Control D. Miss circle. I'm going to change it to black. I'm going to hold down, shift and move my directional arrow in, and that will make my circles smaller from the center. So hold down, Shift left mouse button and drag it in. And that is made it smaller, but it's still stayed proportionally centered to the circle and the square underneath. I'm going to make one more and make it maroon. I don't know how that will show against the black. We will see Shift Left mouse. I'm actually going to change. Okay, I'm going to select that, hits three on my mouse to zoom in to just the circles. I actually want my black one, a little bigger shift. Drag out a little, and I'm gonna to change my white one to black. Now, let's make it more room so it's away from the black one. My white circle is selected D for dropper. Select the maroon S. For selection. Select the center circle and change, changing black. Select your middle circle and change it quite. There we go. That way the black and the maroon aren't directly against each other. And now pitcher minus button and it zooms back out. Select my white circles, this white circle, shift, this white circle, I'm going to make it maroon, just d for dropper, put the x right over the color you want and it changes it S for selection. Now I want to duplicate my white one and my black one. Select your white circle and you're black circle by holding Shift Control, D. Move it over here, shift and select your square behind it and center, center shift. Again to de-select the square because we want to duplicate the circles one more time. So make sure you're black when annuli one both have the dotted lines around them. Control D to duplicate over this one, which are square, that the circle is over, center, center and Control S, safe. All right, Now I want to add more squares over the squares. A little different though. So picture square tool and I want to long and skinny this for selection. I'm going to do 3 minus 2 below for our app. I don't want this new rectangle to be taller than this square. You can either eyeball it and be like I want to let on. It's not past the height of the square. I am going to make it golden yellow B. But over here, because we're going to duplicate one to move it to where it is positioned. It has positioned directly over the one that you duplicated it. And if you try to just manually move it to the right, it could be off just a little bit. So if I add click and drag, it might not be directly away from this one that you just made. So if I am too, and if I hold down Control key while I move it, it'll leave it horizontally the same as the first one. Hold down Control and then move it over and you see it stays directly in relation to this one. So now I'm going to select both of them and control G to group them. So now if I try to move one, the other one is coming with it. So I'm going to bring it over here, shift, select the square, it's over and center, center. If we did not create the yellow rectangles and I did the center on the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. It would have put the two rectangles on top of each other. So when you group it, it sees it as a whole object. Even though there's actually two there, it sees it as one. K centers it over the square. All right, we're going to hit Minus to zoom back out, Control S. We've done some stuff and make sure it saved. I want another one of these yellow rectangle groups. So I'm going to duplicate. I'm going to put one here and duplicate, put one here. This one, I want to rotate 90 degrees. So I will scoot over to it and I'm going to click on it one more time to give you your rotational arrows, hold down control and rotate, and it will give you the 15 degree terms. So while it's selected, hold down, shift and select the square behind it, center, center. Come over to this one. The second one, we duplicate it because we did not set on that one. Shift, select the square behind it, center, center, control S to save. Now, I want to add a star, so draw your star, draw your stars smaller than the square, the best you can. We'll size it in a minute. I don't want to change anything. It looks like a good start to me, five points selection tool. I'm going to change it. Let's make a green star. You know what? I want a gold star. So these that are gold. First of all, I want this same color and I don't remember which one it was trying to save time. I'm just going to hit D and change it to that yellow S. Select, hold down, Shift, select, and select again, let go of shift. And we are going to change those to just play with color. Ooh, I like that one. Play with colors and see what you like. You don't have to select what i 2. Let's put a star here and duplicate and put a star here. Select both double, slit, the square and the star. Center symptom. Control S stood there. You have it. You have created an illustration that you can use in a pattern or just as an illustration just by itself, you should be proud of yourself. Congratulations. Now, Control S to make sure that the file is saved and we're going to select the whole thing outside of the square. So I know if I go this way, I'm going to get the top of that one. If I go down in this way, I'm going to get the side of it. So right here, click and hold, drag your mouse to select everything and you notice everything has the dotted line around it. So now we have it selected and we're going to file and export. We will save it as a PNG, like a picture. So we're going to select export of what we have selected. We want the selection saved. It's showing that it's 14 inches wide and tall. It's in inches. Only thing you want to make sure if yours is not showing is 300 DPI, so minus already Bayer, so it's not going to change any of that. I am going to click Export As so I can select where I want this picture to be saved and what to title it as. So click Export As and have a folder here it is, geometric. Picture. Leave, Save As type as a PNG and click Save. Now right there, that did not save it, that only gave it the title and where you want to save it. It did not actually save it. You have to click. I do like to click Close one complete because this box goes away, you have to click this Export button for to actually save the picture. So click that. Let it do its thing, Control S one more time just to make sure everything is saved. So there you have it. You have drew your geometric design using the Inkscape illustrating tools, then you have saved it in your file. So now you're able to post your finished project in the gallery out forward to seeing it. Thank you so much for joining my class.
12. Final thoughts: All right, That is the end of the class and you have made it. Congratulations. We covered everything from learning how to download Inkscape to using the program to create your very own geometric design. If there's one thing I hope you take away from this class is to have fun learning this new skill. Take your time, re-watch the videos if need be. But once you have finished your project for this class, go ahead and upload it in the project gallery. I'd love to see it. If you enjoyed this class, please consider following me to get notification of my next class. Also. Would you please leave a review and let me know what you thought of my first Skillshare class. Thank you so much for joining my class today. And I look forward to seeing you again.
Nancy Moore, Surface Pattern Designer, Artist
