Hi :) today I like to continue learning vector graphics with Linux, by making an icon. I wonder if it's possible to e.g. add some nodes to a circle I already made, to transform the circle, so that the circle can become a hand. Such things are intuitively possible with the iPad's neu.Draw, unfortunately neu.draw is unstable and crashes more often, than it can be used and it only can export to Linux, but not import from Linux. I also installed Xara Xtrem to Linux. What ever Xara should be able to do, it can't import SVG. To add a node using Inkscape this -> http://www.microugly.com/inkscape-quickguide/#add-node doesn't work for a circle. After converting a selected object to a path, e.g. a circle, it seems not to be possible to add a node. By using all the edit node to path options, it becomes possible to add nodes, but controlling them becomes a mess. Is there an easy way to add nodes to a circle, or circle that is transformed to a path and than just to move the nodes, by keeping the outline thickness? The circle just should become a palm with fingers, but the outline shouldn't become thicker or thinner. I can make strange objects, but not a hand that way.
Btw. I don't want to draw a hand, just the top of a dynamic microphone, and some other simple objects, but I like to control it, in a way that I even could draw a hand if needed. If directly draw a Bezier curve and make the selected segments curves this might be ok to draw a hand, but not to do less simpler objects and even drawing a hand that way isn't easy. I'm not talking about drawing the Praying Hands from Dürer, I'm thinking about much simpler hands like those -> http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/306/2/e/study___hands___marge_simpson_by_384sprites-d320yw7.png and other simple objects. I started some weeks ago and I already asked at the Ubuntu Studio devel list some other questions, but I've got less time, so I guess I'll ask some questions from time to time on the users list. There's a Inkscape forum in German. Somebody else already asked what I wanted to ask too, so I read the discussion. Yes, it became a discussion, the experts didn't understand what the user wanted to know, the user only got idiotic answers, fortunately I found out how to do it myself. It was an old thread, the person asking this question did stop using Inkscape. This tutorial does show, what I can do using Inkscape -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7C8Qewphn0 :( What a crap! This is in a style I want to draw, but the tutorial doesn't show how to draw it, it just opens a picture like this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag9N7F2friM&feature=related Do they use Mac or Windows to make good drawings and than import those SVG by Inkscape? Or do they all take photos of their girlfriends and then draw paths above of the photos? I can't find a serious video tutorial, e.g. how to draw such a dog, as in the second tutorial by using Inkscape only. Some month ago I teach children how to draw things similar to that dog with pencils and colors on paper. So at the moment I'm well trained in drawing such simple things, I'm just unable to use Inkscape. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
