Inkscape

Subject Area: Art

Recommended Grade Levels: Higher Grade Art

Inkscape is an open source, SVG -based^{[ 1 ]} vector drawing program. It is useful for drawing:

• Illustrations for the Web
• Graphics for mobile phones
• Simple line drawings
• Cartoons
• Complex works of art
• Figures for articles and books
• Organization charts

The file format that Inkscape uses is compact and quickly transmittable over the Internet. Yet it is powerful and can describe complex drawings that are scalable to any size. Support for the format has been added to web browsers and is already included in many mobile phones.

Inkscape supports the drawing of regular shapes (rectangles, circles, etc.), arbitrary paths, and text. These objects can be given a wide variety of attributes such as color, gradient or patterned fills, alpha blending, and markers. Objects can be transformed, cloned, and grouped. Hyperlinks can be added for use in web browsers. The Inkscape program aims to be fully XML , SVG , and CSS compliant.

For help and tutorials with inkscape, please go to: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Introduction.html

Watch the video below for an introduction!