I don't comment on anything. Im conserved like that. But here I see a guy teaching us literally how you would teach something to someone with absolute zero background in it. No crappy long openers or agitating background music. No overwhelming starters showoffs. Just showing us what this software can do. Im watching this series and learning a lot about different tools available in the software. In the meanwhile I try to imagine their potential. I know I've got a long way to go but with this series, I am hopeful that I can create something sensible and start putting pennies in my pocket which have been empty for a long time now. I wish I could give back in some way for proving us with in legendary source for free. But as of now please accept my humble appreciation
I gotta say, you are one of the best teachers I've watched so far especially for beginners because everyone else moved too fast or they acted like we knew where to go and how to do it and not explaining anything
These are freaking incredible!! Inkscape was so intimidating I didn't think I would ever be able to figure it out. You are explaining it so well anyone can understand. I am finally getting somewhere with these tutorials!
It's invaluable to have a teacher you can trust to explain things as you do. You explain things so clearly. You've saved me time so many times. Thank you.
I've played with this software at a very basic level a year ago achieving very primitive results. When someone explains the basics like you, before even going under the hood, it really begins to open up possibilities on what can be achieved. Thank you!
I like your way in explaining you make me feel like I'm at the same level as you, I really enjoyed all the videos till now and I'll finish this tutorial, much appreciated for real 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💛
AWESOME Video. Straight to the point and easy enough to understand for us Beginners.I'm able to digest each nugget while following along with the video. Thanks for taking the time to do these vids...Very Helpful!
Having watched some of these videos, it’s given me the confidence and ability to recreate a small low-res wallpaper I like and make it a crisp 1200x1600 and it looks fab! It wasn’t hard to do, but I wouldn’t have had an idea where to start before! I’m going to be watching a lot of your videos!
I love these videos. Us Mac users definitely miss out on all the keyboard trickery. The same commands don’t work for us. For now, anybody wondering, If you can have your text tool activated, than highlight your word (or half a sentence etc...) and play around with the top right of the screen. Mine has 5 options when the text command is being used (and not the cursor looking tool to select things). But basically there is where you can play with spacing etc... My 5 windows on the almost top right have menus that can drop down to make the spacing bigger or smaller etc...doesn’t seem as simple but with practice we can learn it I am sure...
Amazing tutorials! I wish they'd taught us how useful these free tools can be during university and so many designers could save £1000s every year! More money for the things that really matter!
This was a good one, I'll be using this stuff a lot even though I'm just a beginner, going to watch it severals to master the concepts too. Thanks again for your tutorials !
I'm just getting started with InkScape and just from this one video I'm seeing how powerful it is. I was especially impressed with the text following the curve of the elipse in just a couple of clicks. If it was in this video I missed it, but I'm needing to increase the text border size by a couple of pixels. I'm sure it can do it; I just didn't see it. This video really go me interested in use InkScape more. The quality of the vector graphics is so much better than raster, especially for text, and I need smoother, but sharper lines for book cover designs.
Sweet sweet sweet this is so helpful, CorelDraw user here. I knew this functionality must be in here somewhere. They changed all the names for everything and put them in such out of the way places.
I love the text features. Thanks for the demo. Can you tell me how to align the text on the path? I've tried all kinds of ways, and my text always lines up the same way each time. I want to be able to position the text a certain way on the path, but it seems anchored. Skewing and rotating doesn't help.
Great tutorial. Very detailed and easy to flow. Thank you for sharing your time and talent. Is there a way to add glyps to the text? I will definitely be subscribing.
Hi TJ. Thank you so much for these videos! I am wondering how to arc text at the bottom of the circle without them being upside down. Is this possible?
After I create the oval, put the text "on path" around it, and change the oval's fill and stroke to none, how do I go back to the oval to make changes to fill and stroke?
Hi, again, I’m now watching lesson ten and it is really cool what you did with that falling image! I was able to do it all but was not able to draw a nice background. I clicked on the square and it looked like there was one there but I couldn’t give it a color. I’m not sure what was preventing it from showing. Have any idea what it could be? I was able to blur the shadow behind my image and add the gradient, etc. Thanks for all these great videos! They are helping me to not feel so technically challenged!
Why do my text prints so fuzzy (pixellated) while the screen image is sharp? When I copy and save as a GDI metafile in LibreOffice, the print is perfect - even at 5 pt.
Hi, thank you so much for this. I have learned so much. I am trying to learn this and cricut at the same time. It is fun but I am stumped on a problem. I need to make the words in certain areas thicker so when I cut them on the cricut they are not so thin that I can't weed them (pull off the vinyl) with out loosing the letters. I hope I explained that good enough. I see other videos on it but you explain it by using the tools and I get that better. Could you help me, please and thank you for taking the time to read this. Helena
Marko Babic Hii, I am a beginner don’t know much about it. But I had a circle and text both selected and clicked on put on path , the text encircled the circle.
Hi, I can't figure out how that letter moving around works and also how you can space out words, maybe one of my keys are not set up properly as I followed the instructions, it highlights the letter but when I try to move them around using arrows, nothing happens. How the whole function calls so I can go to command settings and maybe check there. Thanks
TJFree, I appreciate this video series. I have a question to Text and Fonts. Are the default fonts single line for engraving? I see the hershey option in the render submenu, but I am still having a tough time. which this topic is the very least talked about on the web for making name tags and such. Can you create a video on this? Thanks! and again, everything else is awesome info and you do a great job teaching the content!
You are doing a great job for all of us working with this tool! Thank you!! Question - I do not see the options for the text and font properties panel. Have version 1.1. All I have is font, features and text but none of the other tools. Do I need a different version? Thanks again!
Hi, I love your videos! I’m wondering why I can’t get something to repeat again after I successfully did it once. An example is getting a phrase to sit onto a drawn circle by selecting the “put on path” option. Both the object and the phrase were selected but nothing happened. I also was not able to highlight a specific letter in a word to move it around. I could move two or three letters w/o their being highlighted and I could highlight a letter by moving my cursor over it but not how you were seemingly illustrating how it was done. Thanks.
Hi Tj! Thank you for your tutorials! I’m learning a lot... do you have a Mac or a pc because I have a Mac and some options when I click or hold some keys they do not work! Is that it? The options are different for Mac? Thank you!’
Is there a way in the text area to skew the text(s) so that it may look squished in the middle or any other area? Can you import fonts via downloads from external links?
Hi TJ..Awesome videos. I tried moving around a single letter by holding down the alt key after highlighting it but it didnt work. also tried holding it down with the shift key and moving it around with direction arrows but it still didn't budge. any ideas as to where i might have gone wrong?
Hi TJ Thanks for a great series of Tutorials realy enjoying them.... One challenge I have with text is that i cannot find where to align etc... as I am using version 1.0.2 64 bit on win 10.. any suggestions ?
for anyone having trouble not being able to move the letters with alt. when u click on the text tool the 'A' just click on the canvas do not click and drag and create a box. then u will be able to move the text with alt
I have a silhouette craft cutter and Inkscape is way more robust. I will definitely be doing my designing in Inkscape from now. I deal with so much text.
You just download and install the fonts and restart inkscape, the fonts will be ready to use. That's how I did it on Ubuntu and how I do it now on Fedora
Hi TJ, you are an amazing teacher. Thank you so much for taking the time it took to create all your very informative tutorials. I can't believe how much I have learned from you. I am so grateful you are willing to share your knowledge. Is there a way in Inkscape to use the glyphs from the fonts that have them?
Hello Telma, I saw your question so I thought I would share a RUclips link to a video I watched about using glyphs in Inkscape. (This is for a PC; not a Mac) I'm sure you already know that using character map works with fonts that are PUA-encoded. Also, in the video I followed her steps with character map until right after she selected the font in the dropdown box and said "Go down to "Group by"......If you don't see "Group by" check the "Advanced view" box and more items will appear including "Group by" option! Hope this helps! Donna RUclips video link: ruclips.net/video/UzLhG3qwZ0A/видео.html&app=desktop
I'm learning so much with these tutorials, and you have to many, just getting through #6 here on fonts. Do you have one that shows how to bring in a TT font and convert it to svg to extract and use in a cutting machine software, like Brother Scan n Cut Canvas Workspace?
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I don't comment on anything. Im conserved like that. But here I see a guy teaching us literally how you would teach something to someone with absolute zero background in it. No crappy long openers or agitating background music. No overwhelming starters showoffs. Just showing us what this software can do. Im watching this series and learning a lot about different tools available in the software. In the meanwhile I try to imagine their potential. I know I've got a long way to go but with this series, I am hopeful that I can create something sensible and start putting pennies in my pocket which have been empty for a long time now. I wish I could give back in some way for proving us with in legendary source for free. But as of now please accept my humble appreciation
It takes talent and skill to put this sort of teaching together, totally agree this is straight in boom! Thank you!
i like you buddy,your comment is beautiful and this tutorials are treasure for me thats helping me alot.
These are terrific. Nice, bite size chunks and very clear. I'm loving the software and enjoying learning it; thanks.
I gotta say, you are one of the best teachers I've watched so far especially for beginners because everyone else moved too fast or they acted like we knew where to go and how to do it and not explaining anything
These are freaking incredible!! Inkscape was so intimidating I didn't think I would ever be able to figure it out. You are explaining it so well anyone can understand. I am finally getting somewhere with these tutorials!
It's invaluable to have a teacher you can trust to explain things as you do. You explain things so clearly. You've saved me time so many times. Thank you.
I've played with this software at a very basic level a year ago achieving very primitive results. When someone explains the basics like you, before even going under the hood, it really begins to open up possibilities on what can be achieved. Thank you!
For me you are instructing in the way that I need, just the facts and explain as you go, sincerely appreciate all that you are doing.
I am a complete beginner and i am very grateful for your method of teaching
Who in the hell is down voting these videos?!?!? These are great!
bots.
...and ppl who think its the download button ;)
me, looking for adding nodes to text, so you can make some crazy shapes, but he didnt mention that so...
@@aliadilovic2294 I was looking for the same, but these were helpful, too. I upvoted though, his tutorials are great!
People who can't follow simple instructions
Loving these lessons! Such a big help, very easy to understand and not confusing. You are amazing sir. :)
Really appreciate these videos! More people should know about Inkscape! Thanks again!
Great job explaining all the features! The best instructional video I have seen on RUclips so far!
Fantastic tutorials, concise and well explained-thankyou!!
Your lessons are so helpful. I’m starting to feel like a semi pro 😊. Thanks again
Such a clear explanations. Best teacher that I met in internet.
I like your way in explaining you make me feel like I'm at the same level as you, I really enjoyed all the videos till now and I'll finish this tutorial, much appreciated for real 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💛
AWESOME Video. Straight to the point and easy enough to understand for us Beginners.I'm able to digest each nugget while following along with the video. Thanks for taking the time to do these vids...Very Helpful!
You're welcome!
I really appreciate you lessons. You know how to teach. Some don't. I have bought and paid for illustrator and this does more. Thank you, thank you!
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback and the kind words!
Almost onw week over with Inkscape and these Valuable videos.. Thank you... Feel like I'm addicting to Inkscape..
I'm binge watching this whole series right now.
Having watched some of these videos, it’s given me the confidence and ability to recreate a small low-res wallpaper I like and make it a crisp 1200x1600 and it looks fab! It wasn’t hard to do, but I wouldn’t have had an idea where to start before! I’m going to be watching a lot of your videos!
That's really great to hear, Barry. What a good use of Inkscape!
I love these videos. Us Mac users definitely miss out on all the keyboard trickery. The same commands don’t work for us. For now, anybody wondering, If you can have your text tool activated, than highlight your word (or half a sentence etc...) and play around with the top right of the screen. Mine has 5 options when the text command is being used (and not the cursor looking tool to select things). But basically there is where you can play with spacing etc... My 5 windows on the almost top right have menus that can drop down to make the spacing bigger or smaller etc...doesn’t seem as simple but with practice we can learn it I am sure...
You can now download the new version 1.0 of Inkspace and it works on Mac. There are some differences but not very many
Thank you
I have windows but I couldn't make it work like the video
So it's really helpful
Very well presented.
Inkscape is the first package I've come across that doesn't use a 'single' menu for creating and manipulating text.
Very nice, love the text around shapes tool!
This work is a goldmine !...cheers.
Amazing tutorials! I wish they'd taught us how useful these free tools can be during university and so many designers could save £1000s every year! More money for the things that really matter!
This was a good one, I'll be using this stuff a lot even though I'm just a beginner, going to watch it severals to master the concepts too. Thanks again for your tutorials !
I'm just getting started with InkScape and just from this one video I'm seeing how powerful it is. I was especially impressed with the text following the curve of the elipse in just a couple of clicks. If it was in this video I missed it, but I'm needing to increase the text border size by a couple of pixels. I'm sure it can do it; I just didn't see it. This video really go me interested in use InkScape more. The quality of the vector graphics is so much better than raster, especially for text, and I need smoother, but sharper lines for book cover designs.
Excellent information, very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you very much for the lessons!Merry Christmass from Greece!
Thanks so much. This is an excellent start for me. I love it!
You're welcome!
Great tutorials. These have helped me edit a lot of files for my cnc router
That's good to hear!
Well that was a good tutorial !! Also really happy that I found inkscape and your channel
You are such an awesome teacher .. God bless!
Absolutely love this tutorial, taught it to me like a 3rd grader. Thank you
THANK YOU... I love this program, but it can be overwhelming. I really appreciate the simplification!!
Such a great teacher!
Dude I really hope you know how helpful these are
THANKS SO MUCH I WAS SOOO LOST UNTIL I STARTED WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS , I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS STILL.
thanks for all your tutorials
this was exactly what i needed! i appreciate you !
Sweet sweet sweet this is so helpful, CorelDraw user here. I knew this functionality must be in here somewhere. They changed all the names for everything and put them in such out of the way places.
I love the text features. Thanks for the demo. Can you tell me how to align the text on the path? I've tried all kinds of ways, and my text always lines up the same way each time. I want to be able to position the text a certain way on the path, but it seems anchored. Skewing and rotating doesn't help.
Woaw. This video is awesome. Thanks a bunch
Thank you so much for teaching me how to use inkscape, I'm an older learner and crs!
Thank you for all the info! It’s all very clear
Great explaining! Easy for a beginner like me. Thanks.
Great tutorial, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for these tutorials!
presented very well! thanks TJ this is a big help!
You're welcome!
Fantastic explanation.Thanks.
Great simple informative video, thanks
TNice tutorials video really helped! Thank you ❤
Great tutorial. Very detailed and easy to flow. Thank you for sharing your time and talent. Is there a way to add glyps to the text? I will definitely be subscribing.
Thank you so much! My great teacher!
Awesome example of the right way to do an intro tutorial for an app.
Hi TJ. Thank you so much for these videos! I am wondering how to arc text at the bottom of the circle without them being upside down. Is this possible?
After I create the oval, put the text "on path" around it, and change the oval's fill and stroke to none, how do I go back to the oval to make changes to fill and stroke?
finally, a good video to get the text graphics im looking for.
thank you for sharing, learned a lot from them
Hi, again, I’m now watching lesson ten and it is really cool what you did with that falling image! I was able to do it all but was not able to draw a nice background. I clicked on the square and it looked like there was one there but I couldn’t give it a color. I’m not sure what was preventing it from showing. Have any idea what it could be? I was able to blur the shadow behind my image and add the gradient, etc. Thanks for all these great videos! They are helping me to not feel so technically challenged!
Hi, I would like to thank you for these awesome videos, just one question, how can I fit a line of text into shapes?
Why do my text prints so fuzzy (pixellated) while the screen image is sharp?
When I copy and save as a GDI metafile in LibreOffice, the print is perfect - even at 5 pt.
Late to the party but this is my fav video so far.
Outstanding - thank you!
Hi, thank you so much for this. I have learned so much. I am trying to learn this and cricut at the same time. It is fun but I am stumped on a problem. I need to make the words in certain areas thicker so when I cut them on the cricut they are not so thin that I can't weed them (pull off the vinyl) with out loosing the letters. I hope I explained that good enough. I see other videos on it but you explain it by using the tools and I get that better. Could you help me, please and thank you for taking the time to read this. Helena
that was a great tutorial. thank you very much for this
Really great video, thanks
Plenty ,of options,, wow nice tutorial. Put on path very helpful. Thanks very much for the tutorials.
Put on path doesnt work for me. Do you have any ideas?
Marko Babic Hii, I am a beginner don’t know much about it. But I had a circle and text both selected and clicked on put on path , the text encircled the circle.
Marko Babic hope this helps.
@@frankbhasker9942
I realized I needed to select the text and circle object using both shift and ctrl not only shift and it worked. Thanks anyways
excellent video!
Love your videos! New subscriber here! 🙌❤
Hi,
I can't figure out how that letter moving around works and also how you can space out words, maybe one of my keys are not set up properly as I followed the instructions, it highlights the letter but when I try to move them around using arrows, nothing happens.
How the whole function calls so I can go to command settings and maybe check there.
Thanks
I had the same trouble. You can do this manually. Check out the instructions: www.lifewire.com/how-to-adjust-text-in-inkscape-1701888
TJFree, I appreciate this video series. I have a question to Text and Fonts. Are the default fonts single line for engraving? I see the hershey option in the render submenu, but I am still having a tough time. which this topic is the very least talked about on the web for making name tags and such. Can you create a video on this? Thanks! and again, everything else is awesome info and you do a great job teaching the content!
5:20 soooooooo cool! Thank you TJ! Really helpful!
Not working for me on my laptop help please
You are doing a great job for all of us working with this tool! Thank you!! Question - I do not see the options for the text and font properties panel. Have version 1.1. All I have is font, features and text but none of the other tools. Do I need a different version? Thanks again!
Hi, I love your videos! I’m wondering why I can’t get something to repeat again after I successfully did it once. An example is getting a phrase to sit onto a drawn circle by selecting the “put on path” option. Both the object and the phrase were selected but nothing happened. I also was not able to highlight a specific letter in a word to move it around. I could move two or three letters w/o their being highlighted and I could highlight a letter by moving my cursor over it but not how you were seemingly illustrating how it was done. Thanks.
I am having the same problem.
hi lessons are really great.
Thank you for the info helped a lot
this very good video content that is benefiting, and that too with a free software !
Hi Tj! Thank you for your tutorials! I’m learning a lot... do you have a Mac or a pc because I have a Mac and some options when I click or hold some keys they do not work! Is that it? The options are different for Mac? Thank you!’
Great explanation
Is there a way in the text area to skew the text(s) so that it may look squished in the middle or any other area? Can you import fonts via downloads from external links?
Very informative!
Hi TJ..Awesome videos. I tried moving around a single letter by holding down the alt key after highlighting it but it didnt work. also tried holding it down with the shift key and moving it around with direction arrows but it still didn't budge. any ideas as to where i might have gone wrong?
Hi TJ Thanks for a great series of Tutorials realy enjoying them.... One challenge I have with text is that i cannot find where to align etc... as I am using version 1.0.2 64 bit on win 10.. any suggestions ?
Ty I got my first divine because of you
HI , I LIKE YOUR VIDEO AND THE STYLE OF TEACHING THANK YOU.
Lucky I stayed to the end. Was about to search for another video to find out how to curve the text... immediately the curve section came up.
wonderful sir!
Thank You. Good Year
for anyone having trouble not being able to move the letters with alt. when u click on the text tool the 'A' just click on the canvas do not click and drag and create a box. then u will be able to move the text with alt
thank you! i was getting really annoyed it wasn't working😔i wonder why that's different from creating a box
I have a silhouette craft cutter and Inkscape is way more robust. I will definitely be doing my designing in Inkscape from now. I deal with so much text.
Thank you so much for your tutorial. Q: how would you import new fonts into Inkscape
You just download and install the fonts and restart inkscape, the fonts will be ready to use. That's how I did it on Ubuntu and how I do it now on Fedora
You are real Guru. thanks
Who needs college when you got RUclips. 2020 is a good time to be alive
Hi TJ, you are an amazing teacher. Thank you so much for taking the time
it took to create all your very informative tutorials. I can't believe
how much I have learned from you. I am so grateful you are willing to
share your knowledge. Is there a way in Inkscape to use the glyphs from the fonts
that have them?
Hello Telma, I saw your question so I thought I would share a RUclips link to a video I watched about using glyphs in Inkscape. (This is for a PC; not a Mac) I'm sure you already know that using character map works with fonts that are PUA-encoded. Also, in the video I followed her steps with character map until right after she selected the font in the dropdown box and said "Go down to "Group by"......If you don't see "Group by" check the "Advanced view" box and more items will appear including "Group by" option! Hope this helps!
Donna
RUclips video link: ruclips.net/video/UzLhG3qwZ0A/видео.html&app=desktop
great job pro keep on
awesome videos...
9:34 "goes around the circle HEH HEH!" xD great vid man
He got me there too XD
I'm learning so much with these tutorials, and you have to many, just getting through #6 here on fonts. Do you have one that shows how to bring in a TT font and convert it to svg to extract and use in a cutting machine software, like Brother Scan n Cut Canvas Workspace?
Connie Chandler I purchased a font with that weirdness too. I haven’t found out the answer yet.