It's "already paid for". It's free after people spend money or time making it. I'm very thankful for the people who sponsor me on Patreon for example because they paid for some of these features. Other developers are pure volunteer and I love those guys too. They are amazing.
Yes, I started screen printing in 2012 and this software has really been a blessing! Also, I have learned pretty much everything that I know from Logos by Nick.
@@doctormo I'm glad to hear this because I recently just graduated and no longer have access to the program for free. Is inkscape good as everyone else here is saying? Can this software be used professionally, like to commission projects, etc.? I've already been establishing my graphic design services. Also is there a software like inkscape that is like photoshop? Thank you for your help.
IronEcho Design also has a channel that's 99.8% Inkscape projects. His tutorials are on a completely different style than Nick's. Tons of great projects there too. If you're not a subscriber yet, you should check it out.
Inkscape definitely feels like a different software all together for anyone who used its ealier versions. A big thanks to the Inkscape team for this huge update
At this point there's hardly any reason that I would personally need a paid product. I was considering upgrading to Affinity V2 since I had V1, just for the shape builder tool, but now that it's in Inkscape I can save my cash. Great work Inkscape team!
Affinity support CMYK. That could be a reason too. I don't see any other advantages now. Also, after long time of using Inkscape I found myself being slow if I try to use Affinity now. I also got a V1 licence. But Inkscape got one huge advantage: it works on Linux.
They've been investing massive effort into this gem of a software. Making it more and more valid for use in professional studios. Props to the wonderful team behind inkscape
I audibly gasped when I saw the shape builder tool. My workflow has just been cut in half. And then you showed the corner rounding ability. This is insane. My love for Inkscape has gone through the roof
@@MercyReigns oh I hate when people mess up their, there, your, you're, yours, to, too, were, we're. But there is something even more awful... it's when they mess up plural forms and, for example, write wolve's or wolfs instead of wolves.
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@@Dudik28 I mean, sometimes you gotta cut people some slack, the autocorrect feature on some phones is shit and english might not be their first language.
@ I'm also not a native English speaker, but I think that this is just base knowledge that anyone should understand. And autocorrect nowadays is very good, because majority is either using Google keyboard or Apple keyboard. Both have excellent autocorrect and word prediction
That's awesome! I'm really happy for the developments with inkscape. Honestly the main reason I used Illustrator was the shape builder tool. It's just too useful and streamlined. Always happy to see free alternatives get competitive
I love Inkscape. I just hope some developer may give the Text functions some love. There's a lot of things related to text that just doesn't make sense, like going to EXTENSION to simply change the case.
I always have enjoyed Inkscape more than Illustrator for over 8 years. I've been more impressed by the toolset, and the performance. Now though, I feel like a child on Christmas morning! Can't wait to use the new shape tool (will save me so much time in path operations), and the new effects are pretty sick, and the non-destructive modifiers are something I've been wanting for so long, I'm so grateful it exists and is so refined now! As always, great video, and very informative!
Still the best tutor for Inkscape Nick. And Inkscape is such a great piece of software. Kudos to all those that have worked on it over the years and the continued support. Without them and the FOSS community we would all be stuck with an overpriced subscription service.
I was just watching a video last week on the shape builder tool in illustrator (first time I came across this tool) thinking about how useful it would be. I had no idea that it was planned for the new inkscape and that it was releasing this week.
It's a very solid release. Plus the features you've mentioned, I am really fond of multiple pages, CMYK, export menu ... I think Inkscape is growing fast, like Blender and Krita. More and more people are getting interested in Inkscape thanks to your tutorials @LogosByNick 💯 .
I hope Inkscape has improved bevels. That was the one drawback with this software. I like using bevels with dropshadows to give my objects a little 3D effect.
Wow, the similarities between Live Path Effects menu and Modifiers in Blender is striking. And I'm not complaining, Blender is a great application to draw inspiration from! And of course the Shape Builder is such a gift, I even thought we would never get it because Adobe had some patents for it, but here we are. Awesome release
I haven't used Inkscape for about 12 years, but I made some CD covers with it back then that went to print and turned out well. It was great software back then so I imagine it must be fantastic now! (I use Illustrator because that's what my clients require). But Inkscape is certainly more than capable enough
Thanks for showing the new features in Inkscape 1.3. They look excellent and the UI seems to be getting better and more intuitive with each release. The only thing that is a shame is that there is still no CMYK for print quality designs without having to go via Scribus. That is the reason I moved to Affinity Designer. Please keep making the great content, I love your Inkscape tutorials.
This is freaking EPIC, and such an absolute game changer! I don't want to beg with a handful of candy, but integrating 3d forms and perspective rendering into shape builder, would be even more amazing, like for working with 3d text. Actually, this is already possible, with a little finesse. I can't believe how much easier my Yin Yang design became with SB! SB alone is a huge time saver, and for those starting out now with ver.1.3, you can't even imagine the struggles as a beginner, prior to this stable build of Inkscape. It's not that they were impossibilities, but one had to be creative af and have a boatload of extra time, to achieve a desired result occasionally! 🤓 Nick, I've got to be honest with you, you were absolutely instrumental, in helping me understand how to use Inkscape, and level up my design game! I'm not a doodler, so being design creative didn't come natural for me! I followed every one of your tutorials I could find, explicitly, and that's how I learned! Thank you SO MUCH! ♥
I'm *so* happy to see the new interface for managing patterns. Now all I want is the ability to convert the applied pattern into a series of editable nodes. Essentially, I do a lot of laser-engraver, etc work. And having to export a raster just to get the pattern is both lossy and inefficient time-wise.
yes that is curenntyl not posible but i use this small hack. make a bitmap copy and trace it back with trace bitmap dialog rusalts are not 100% precise but honestly if you set your dpi to 900 its like 99% good
I’m looking to get back into vector art and Inkscape is in equal parts mind blowing and incredible as well as daunting and inaccessible 🤣 I was used to ScratchMIT’s vector editor, which is puny by comparison. Before you make fun of me y’all should know that I’ve also made the letter “S” in the same pattern and style and LbN has so I’m the real deal 😎 Ultimate graphic designer qualification right there.
It's almost cute when somebody asks whether or not you use Illustrator and at your "I use Inkscape" answer they reply with "B-but you can't do what I e-expect with it"... been using it since 2011 as my main vector graphic tool and never regretted it (that is, most of my job can be done with it alongside a photo editor, so...)
Nick thank you so much for your videos over the years. I have learned so much from you, which has helped me tremendously. Big props to all of the people at Inkscape for all of the hard work that has gone into making this free program such a great success.
while watching this, i thought the interface looked weird until i noticed was still on 0.92. The Ubuntu Repo was super out of date. (3yrs to be exact).
Wow, after a few years of debating the break away from adobe to affinity. The changes I needed to text warp and Inkscape came and saved me. Finding these tutorials and now 1.3 damn Inkscape has finally come around to finally take charge of the mighty 3 apps. With your channel I really never needed adobe! I’m excited!
The pattern editor is a MUCH neede upgrade!! Never really bothered using patterns because you were stuck with how it looked and couldn't change the size
CMYK is supported, icc profiles and everything. The problem which makes all that useless is that it can only give you a CMYK SVG. And not a CMYK PDF. Which is pretty much the end of usefulness. This is a known issue, but a much bigger one than it at first seems. But plans are in the works to solve it.
Just completed this video. And man, Inkscape isn't even what I remembered 2 years ago. A lot has changed since then, what an incredible team of devs! Now knowing about the existence of these new features too, I'll try Inkscape once again. Heck, maybe even replacing Illustrator with it too!
Sooo many details of this update will be so handy for technical drawing. Having a pattern builder inside inkscape would have saved me a few hours in my last project :'D
It´s really cool to know inkscape is "slowly" getting better and better. When I started learning it, I thought it was not getting updated, coz I just took it as a finished product, but these updates make inkscape so much better it´s really cool!
There are very few software's out there that don't get updated or have features added, especially not big apps like this one. Sure there is the occasional FOSS app that gets stuck, because it's main developer has life get in the way or something, but you don't just give up on it, as sooner or later (more often sooner) someone else will pick up the project and continue to develop it. FYI: Inkscape has always got better much faster than anything Adobe and many other commercial app makers ever made! I don't know how you came to these conclusions with all of the info out there, and you should have never thought that in the first place.
Just found out about Inkscape paired with this amazing channel and the best part of it all is that Inkscape v1.3 was just released introducing the long-awaited (as I later found out) shape builder tool, I'm already blown away and overwhelmed by all of this great stuff going on, thanks to Nick and to the amazing people at Inkscape for enabling me and my fellow designers to grow our passion and ("test the water" - Nick) Inkscape is my ( "foot in the door to the world of graphic design " - also Nick) To Nick, thanks a world To the amazing people at Inkscape : you're making the future -Shakir, another ("future graphic designer" - As Nick labeles us in the "Ai vs Inkscape" video)
I'm amazed they actually got this far. I work in UX design, and I tried to get involved a few years back, and felt summarily ignored and snubbed by the maintainers. I'm glad somebody was able to knock their heads together and get them moving in the right direction.
I've been eagle-eyed for this new release a couple of weeks now. I even checked yesterday, but you got it as soon as it was released. I'm installing as we speak, on Pop OS Linux...fastest version of Inkscape. I have been using the 1.3 Dev Snapshots in production work as well, since I like how they Swatches panel highlights the current colours used from a Swatch Library. I use the RAL Classic colour library, which I modified and updated from InkStitch embroidery plugin. Another great feature I saw today - They added a button to re-link Images used in your document, just like Illustrator. Before, you would have to copy and paste the local image url to replace it with an updated image. There's also an embed button for images now. Very very nice. Oh, and this one should have OpenGL acceleration for improved on canvas performance.
This is what I appreciate about these communities. Blender has stepped up their game by quite a bit from when I first started, and now Inkscape is also making new improvements to their software. I've used blender as a "shape builder" as I found it easier to just make and break shapes as I'm more conformable there, then just export as an orthographic projection and do a path trace in Inkscape, which is a dirty method of doing it, I know 😂😅 but damn, defs gonna be using shape builder on Inkscape and play around d with it
Thanks a lot for this update on Inkscape's ... update :D I really like using the software, but a whole lot of its features are still very much a mystery to me. Videos such as this do really help to wrap your head around what this thing can do.
The only thing that keeps me from using Inkscape exclusively now, is that it lacks an appearance panel. Offsets are very useful, but far more labor intensive, and not nearly as flexible as the appearance panels in Illustrator and Designer. That said, Inkscape is definitely improving by leaps and bounds with each update, and well worth having in a creative's tool box.
Okay, hands down the most excited I've been for an Inkscape release, I wasn't all that hyped, then I saw the video and I'm down with Nick, the most excited I've been.
Inkscape just keeps improving. But one big thing it is missing is a tabbed multiple document interface such as Gimp or Krita. Does anybody know if or when that might becoming?
@@doctormo This is the reply I received on Twitter: "We never promise anything :) . also it still has a ways to go until it works perfectly. What makes it difficult is limited recourse (not enough devs, designer, testers, etc)" So, in my mind, it reads not enough people are screaming loud enough about it for it to be any sort of priority. But I'm going to continue asking.
Thank you Nick for this video. I am so excited for the shape builder and pattern tool. Last week I made a logo and I had to go through the hassle of using path effects to round off the corners and now it has become this simple. I also make patterns for my art on Inkscape and this new feature of manipulating existing patterns is great. They really outdid themselves with this one.
There's tons of great free and open source software out there, but Inkscape glaringly stands out as one of the best among the best. I only use it occasionally, but it's an absolute joy every time I do. What makes it even better is knowing that whenever I do encounter a problem I don't know to solve, Nick will have a video with a detailed, to the point explanation of how to achieve whatever I need. I cannot thank you enough for this content!
I think I can finally ditch CorelDRAW! THANK YOU! And props to Inkscape. Between these new features and pagination (a must for my work), I'm going to start migrating ASAP.
Inkscape is a gem. I still miss Aldus (later Macromedia) FreeHand, though. To me it was way more intuitive to learn than any other pro-level vector graphics program, and the way it handled color palettes was genius. (I don’t think any program before or since has done it as well.)
@@AdamBelis While it did let you just assign a color to an object (or part of an object, like a color within a gradient), the intended way was to actually predefine named color swatches in a palette, and then assign those swatches to objects. Then, if you decided to change your color scheme, you could just redefine the color of a swatch, and every object that used it would automatically change color. (IIRC, you could also assign pale versions of swatches to an object. So for example, if you defined a swatch as dark blue, you could assign an object 30% of the swatch to give it pale blue, and perhaps 70% to a different object to make it medium blue. Then, if you redefine the dark blue to dark green, the light blue and medium blue objects would change to light green and medium green.) You’d name the swatches by their use (for example, if you’re drawing a bird, you might define “feather main 1”, “feather main 2”, “feather accent”, “beak”, and “feet”). Then, when you draw it, you might make a gradient from 100% “beak” to 50% “beak” to give it dimension. If you decide the bird should have red accents instead of green, you just modify “feather accent”. And so on. I think you could save palettes to files, so that you could, for example, share the corporate identity palette to other designers.
It all looks very nice and professional, although UX/UI wise I find the path effects dropdown confusing. If you have an effect in the list, the triangular icon does a fold/unfold action, but the exact same icon at the top right corner is used to *add* an effect. I would find it way more intuitive if the plus icon would have just moved from the bottom left corner (previous version) to the top right corner withouth the transformation from a + to a unfolding triangle.
In curious how well the typography tools are now For illustrations it seems Inkscape is good now But can it compete with illustrator / affinity designer for page layout and type setting
May I ask you to review a VERY-inexpensive CAD software, and look-alike, to AutoCAD, please? Named...ActCAD, which is based on ICAD's core engine. Thanks! With most-all CAD software going to a crazy-expensive "subscription" model, or "eyecandy" 3D, its making small-time Designer s like me go nuts, or become "pirates". ActCAD seems the best solution (for this old CAD-guy (since '82)))). And, for the many who might comment...NO!!...FreeCAD is NOT suitable for 2D Architectural Planwork, which is my bread-n-butter :-)
In the late 90s, Microsoft purchased "Image Composer" from Altamira(sp?) and included it with FrontPage 97 (v1) & FrontPage 98 (v1.5). Image Composer was the most intuitive graphics app I've seen to date and included all of these features. Sadly it was raster only and never updated beyond 1.5. It also treated layers as sprites that were easily manipulated within the canvas vs requiring a layers panel to navigate. I resisted using PS/AI well into the 20-teens and only used them for features Image Composer lacked, ...until it would no longer run on newer Windows versions. I'd be very curious to know if these features were inspired by Image Composer, but regardless, GREAT job Inkscape!!! I'm very excited to start playing with this!!! :)
Your videos are so good and educational, and it really helped me to appreciate Inkscape as one of the top tier open source software out there. Thanks a lot for all the amazing content you are creating
Its awesome)))!!!! TU very match))))))))))!!!!!!!!!! Please tell me - is there any Inkscape app for android or any other working way to run it on a tablet pc?
I hope they make the command line interface more usable. Some operations, like converting coordinates to absolute or flattening Bézier curves, can only be done when invoking Inkscape with a GUI, which makes batch operations orders of magnitude slower. With larger SVGs it outright crashes. So I had to manually write a Python script to parse the SVG XML and use some guy’s bezier flattening function instead. Also intersecting paths was giving me strange artefacts, lots of tiny triangles.
Great preview. Are there any new SVG file enhancements, for example cleaning up inline styling. I am currently exporting from Inkscape and then cleaning up my svg file through OMGSVG. I need to do this so I can style the color of SVG icons while editing in Wordpress, which, by default, doesn’t allow the insertion of inline SVG.
Please, I have a question: the previous version, 1.2, was not compatible with MacOS 13 Ventura. Is Inkscape 1.3 compatible with Ventura now? Thank you very much.
I can't believe that this software is free. These people are amazing
free and open source software is fantastic
It's "already paid for". It's free after people spend money or time making it. I'm very thankful for the people who sponsor me on Patreon for example because they paid for some of these features. Other developers are pure volunteer and I love those guys too. They are amazing.
Yes, I started screen printing in 2012 and this software has really been a blessing! Also, I have learned pretty much everything that I know from Logos by Nick.
They truly are
@@doctormo I'm glad to hear this because I recently just graduated and no longer have access to the program for free. Is inkscape good as everyone else here is saying? Can this software be used professionally, like to commission projects, etc.? I've already been establishing my graphic design services. Also is there a software like inkscape that is like photoshop? Thank you for your help.
Oh and props to you Nick being pretty much the number one advocator of Inkscape on UA-cam. Thank you
IronEcho Design also has a channel that's 99.8% Inkscape projects. His tutorials are on a completely different style than Nick's. Tons of great projects there too. If you're not a subscriber yet, you should check it out.
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@@WriterLady totally will thank you for the tip
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@@WriterLady both guys are so amazing. Diffent aproaches, but insane ability to teach.
Inkscape definitely feels like a different software all together for anyone who used its ealier versions. A big thanks to the Inkscape team for this huge update
At this point there's hardly any reason that I would personally need a paid product. I was considering upgrading to Affinity V2 since I had V1, just for the shape builder tool, but now that it's in Inkscape I can save my cash. Great work Inkscape team!
Affinity support CMYK. That could be a reason too. I don't see any other advantages now. Also, after long time of using Inkscape I found myself being slow if I try to use Affinity now. I also got a V1 licence. But Inkscape got one huge advantage: it works on Linux.
Yup, Affinity has CMYK and image editing but at this point you could get by fine with a combo of V1 and Inkscape
@@LogosByNick I could, if I would be on Windows. But I'm not. Looking at Viva Designer. That software works on Linux and supports CMYK professionally.
@@jozsefk9 for cmyk hairline and spot color you can use scribus
@@ghaznavipc I did use Scribus too. But Viva Designer worked better. And there is a free version too.
They've been investing massive effort into this gem of a software. Making it more and more valid for use in professional studios. Props to the wonderful team behind inkscape
I audibly gasped when I saw the shape builder tool. My workflow has just been cut in half. And then you showed the corner rounding ability. This is insane. My love for Inkscape has gone through the roof
Same here! I was like: 🤯 Kaplooooooooooooofkaaaaaaaaa!!!🤪🥳
Inkscape is really stepping up there game even more
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@@Dudik28 people need to go back to school messing up their and too
@@MercyReigns oh I hate when people mess up their, there, your, you're, yours, to, too, were, we're. But there is something even more awful... it's when they mess up plural forms and, for example, write wolve's or wolfs instead of wolves.
@@Dudik28 I mean, sometimes you gotta cut people some slack, the autocorrect feature on some phones is shit and english might not be their first language.
@ I'm also not a native English speaker, but I think that this is just base knowledge that anyone should understand. And autocorrect nowadays is very good, because majority is either using Google keyboard or Apple keyboard. Both have excellent autocorrect and word prediction
That's awesome! I'm really happy for the developments with inkscape. Honestly the main reason I used Illustrator was the shape builder tool. It's just too useful and streamlined. Always happy to see free alternatives get competitive
I SALUTE THE INKSCAPE TEAM, you guys ROCK and Your work NEVER has and NEVER will be un appreciated!
Thank you ALL so much!
I love Inkscape. I just hope some developer may give the Text functions some love. There's a lot of things related to text that just doesn't make sense, like going to EXTENSION to simply change the case.
Get involved with the team and open a feature request. They really listen ❤
The path effect refactor and the performance improvements are everything i've wanted from Inkscape.
I always have enjoyed Inkscape more than Illustrator for over 8 years. I've been more impressed by the toolset, and the performance. Now though, I feel like a child on Christmas morning! Can't wait to use the new shape tool (will save me so much time in path operations), and the new effects are pretty sick, and the non-destructive modifiers are something I've been wanting for so long, I'm so grateful it exists and is so refined now! As always, great video, and very informative!
Over the last two years, Inkscape has gone from a buggy mess that I begrudgingly used to perhaps my favourite application.
Still the best tutor for Inkscape Nick.
And Inkscape is such a great piece of software. Kudos to all those that have worked on it over the years and the continued support. Without them and the FOSS community we would all be stuck with an overpriced subscription service.
You're the best man u helped me a lot with this amazing software
Thanks to the inkscape team. I'm most gassed about the shape builder tool. Thanks Nick.
Such exciting news! Thank you, Nick!
Inkscape is always impressive, but wow, it's really improved a lot. very nice to see Inkscape devs delivering such quality software.
Inkscape is growing up. Thank you for the update video. The first two tools already had me smiling. So much time saved👌👍🤌
Awesome new changes! I also really love that you've updated the Inkscape Masterclass videos, they've been a tremendous help for me.
I was just watching a video last week on the shape builder tool in illustrator (first time I came across this tool) thinking about how useful it would be. I had no idea that it was planned for the new inkscape and that it was releasing this week.
It's a very solid release. Plus the features you've mentioned, I am really fond of multiple pages, CMYK, export menu ... I think Inkscape is growing fast, like Blender and Krita. More and more people are getting interested in Inkscape thanks to your tutorials @LogosByNick 💯 .
it has CMYK now???? wow, I'll give it another chance then!
I hope Inkscape has improved bevels. That was the one drawback with this software. I like using bevels with dropshadows to give my objects a little 3D effect.
Path effect menu change is great. Previous UI hard for me as newcomer.
Remember FOSS projects needs constant funding, so make sure to donate and tell others to do so too. Do not let Big Tech win!!
I just need Inkscape not to crash randomly when the file size gets to more than 100MB.
Wow, the similarities between Live Path Effects menu and Modifiers in Blender is striking. And I'm not complaining, Blender is a great application to draw inspiration from! And of course the Shape Builder is such a gift, I even thought we would never get it because Adobe had some patents for it, but here we are. Awesome release
Thank you very much, Nick. I am downloading the update right away.
I haven't used Inkscape for about 12 years, but I made some CD covers with it back then that went to print and turned out well. It was great software back then so I imagine it must be fantastic now! (I use Illustrator because that's what my clients require). But Inkscape is certainly more than capable enough
YESS! I'm so happy I got over the learning curve and migrated to Inkscape for certain projects.
Once you know Illustrator, learning Inkscape is easy. Also work faster in it because of less floating windows.
Nick you have no idea how helpful you've been to a lot of us over the years. Your work is greatly appreciated sir.
I'm mindblown by Flatter and Fracture function 🤩
no way! inkscape is so fun
edit: damn this update is stacked
Can't wait to see more tutorials on 1.3
Thanks for showing the new features in Inkscape 1.3. They look excellent and the UI seems to be getting better and more intuitive with each release. The only thing that is a shame is that there is still no CMYK for print quality designs without having to go via Scribus. That is the reason I moved to Affinity Designer.
Please keep making the great content, I love your Inkscape tutorials.
This is freaking EPIC, and such an absolute game changer! I don't want to beg with a handful of candy, but integrating 3d forms and perspective rendering into shape builder, would be even more amazing, like for working with 3d text. Actually, this is already possible, with a little finesse. I can't believe how much easier my Yin Yang design became with SB! SB alone is a huge time saver, and for those starting out now with ver.1.3, you can't even imagine the struggles as a beginner, prior to this stable build of Inkscape. It's not that they were impossibilities, but one had to be creative af and have a boatload of extra time, to achieve a desired result occasionally! 🤓
Nick, I've got to be honest with you, you were absolutely instrumental, in helping me understand how to use Inkscape, and level up my design game! I'm not a doodler, so being design creative didn't come natural for me! I followed every one of your tutorials I could find, explicitly, and that's how I learned! Thank you SO MUCH! ♥
I'm *so* happy to see the new interface for managing patterns. Now all I want is the ability to convert the applied pattern into a series of editable nodes.
Essentially, I do a lot of laser-engraver, etc work. And having to export a raster just to get the pattern is both lossy and inefficient time-wise.
yes that is curenntyl not posible but i use this small hack. make a bitmap copy and trace it back with trace bitmap dialog rusalts are not 100% precise but honestly if you set your dpi to 900 its like 99% good
@@AdamBelis Yep, that's the exact scenario I've had to use as well (RE: the second paragraph of my comment was under the fold).
Yes rel converin would need lots of refactoring I did not seen any developers super interested working on this
Es ist schon echt unglaublich, wie mächtig Inkscape über die letzten Jahre geworden ist! Respekt an die Ersteller!
I’m looking to get back into vector art and Inkscape is in equal parts mind blowing and incredible as well as daunting and inaccessible 🤣
I was used to ScratchMIT’s vector editor, which is puny by comparison. Before you make fun of me y’all should know that I’ve also made the letter “S” in the same pattern and style and LbN has so I’m the real deal 😎 Ultimate graphic designer qualification right there.
Finally impressed and will donate. I will not have to use other software to finish projects. Thankful for your dedication to keep improving.
It's almost cute when somebody asks whether or not you use Illustrator and at your "I use Inkscape" answer they reply with "B-but you can't do what I e-expect with it"... been using it since 2011 as my main vector graphic tool and never regretted it (that is, most of my job can be done with it alongside a photo editor, so...)
Nick thank you so much for your videos over the years. I have learned so much from you, which has helped me tremendously. Big props to all of the people at Inkscape for all of the hard work that has gone into making this free program such a great success.
Utterly brilliant! Thanks Nick, these updates are amazing.
while watching this, i thought the interface looked weird until i noticed was still on 0.92. The Ubuntu Repo was super out of date. (3yrs to be exact).
Wow, after a few years of debating the break away from adobe to affinity. The changes I needed to text warp and Inkscape came and saved me. Finding these tutorials and now 1.3 damn Inkscape has finally come around to finally take charge of the mighty 3 apps. With your channel I really never needed adobe! I’m excited!
The pattern editor is a MUCH neede upgrade!! Never really bothered using patterns because you were stuck with how it looked and couldn't change the size
Has InkScape made a version for Android? Android is my only OS now and I miss InkScape.
Very well described, I just subscribed as I am wanting to learn Inkscape
Man, your videos are pure gold, still doing it Nick. Thanks and your deserved like.
One very basic thing they should add right away is built-in CMYK color, which is now down point for printing purpose
CMYK is supported, icc profiles and everything. The problem which makes all that useless is that it can only give you a CMYK SVG. And not a CMYK PDF. Which is pretty much the end of usefulness. This is a known issue, but a much bigger one than it at first seems. But plans are in the works to solve it.
@@doctormo Glad to hear it - it's the one thing that I'm really desperate for.
Is Inkscape having its Blender 2.8 moment?
Just completed this video. And man, Inkscape isn't even what I remembered 2 years ago.
A lot has changed since then, what an incredible team of devs!
Now knowing about the existence of these new features too, I'll try Inkscape once again. Heck, maybe even replacing Illustrator with it too!
I haven't even tried all of the stuff from the last major update! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!🤯
Sooo many details of this update will be so handy for technical drawing. Having a pattern builder inside inkscape would have saved me a few hours in my last project :'D
It´s really cool to know inkscape is "slowly" getting better and better. When I started learning it, I thought it was not getting updated, coz I just took it as a finished product, but these updates make inkscape so much better it´s really cool!
There are very few software's out there that don't get updated or have features added, especially not big apps like this one. Sure there is the occasional FOSS app that gets stuck, because it's main developer has life get in the way or something, but you don't just give up on it, as sooner or later (more often sooner) someone else will pick up the project and continue to develop it.
FYI: Inkscape has always got better much faster than anything Adobe and many other commercial app makers ever made! I don't know how you came to these conclusions with all of the info out there, and you should have never thought that in the first place.
when open source software are progressing at this pace, it shows how people are tired of proprietary ones.
You should always pitch in a few bucks for free open source software. Developers need to eat too.
Love how far Inkscape has come, I started using it in 2013 or 2014
The fish scale pattern is something i spent a bit of time on learning how to make manually previously
I'm, so glad I found your channel and I've been watching your growth over the years trough your videos.
Glad inkscape 1.3 came out finally!
Would be an even better channel if the proselytizing for a fake god was dispensed with.
Just found out about Inkscape paired with this amazing channel and the best part of it all is that Inkscape v1.3 was just released introducing the long-awaited (as I later found out) shape builder tool, I'm already blown away and overwhelmed by all of this great stuff going on, thanks to Nick and to the amazing people at Inkscape for enabling me and my fellow designers to grow our passion and ("test the water" - Nick) Inkscape is my ( "foot in the door to the world of graphic design " - also Nick)
To Nick, thanks a world
To the amazing people at Inkscape : you're making the future
-Shakir, another ("future graphic designer" - As Nick labeles us in the "Ai vs Inkscape" video)
Another great video! Thank you Nick for spending your time helping others like me!
I am rooting inkscape to beat Adobe Illustratior
I'm amazed they actually got this far. I work in UX design, and I tried to get involved a few years back, and felt summarily ignored and snubbed by the maintainers. I'm glad somebody was able to knock their heads together and get them moving in the right direction.
compassion and infinite patience payed off for my UX contributions. Lots of proposals / feetuers took literary years to get in
I was using Inkscape very heavily, but recently starting to use excalidraw more and more, especially inside obsidian with the awesome addons/scripts
I've been eagle-eyed for this new release a couple of weeks now. I even checked yesterday, but you got it as soon as it was released. I'm installing as we speak, on Pop OS Linux...fastest version of Inkscape.
I have been using the 1.3 Dev Snapshots in production work as well, since I like how they Swatches panel highlights the current colours used from a Swatch Library.
I use the RAL Classic colour library, which I modified and updated from InkStitch embroidery plugin.
Another great feature I saw today - They added a button to re-link Images used in your document, just like Illustrator.
Before, you would have to copy and paste the local image url to replace it with an updated image. There's also an embed button for images now.
Very very nice. Oh, and this one should have OpenGL acceleration for improved on canvas performance.
that shape building tool will save me so much time! and patterns? oh my, inkscape devs are amazing ✨
Very exciting. I wouldn't have known if it wasn't for having the notifications bell on. Thanks Nick.
As somwone who has been using Inkscape since 2008, this feels like a major update that level up Inkscape!
I’ve been adobe free for 10 months now!!
This is what I appreciate about these communities. Blender has stepped up their game by quite a bit from when I first started, and now Inkscape is also making new improvements to their software. I've used blender as a "shape builder" as I found it easier to just make and break shapes as I'm more conformable there, then just export as an orthographic projection and do a path trace in Inkscape, which is a dirty method of doing it, I know 😂😅 but damn, defs gonna be using shape builder on Inkscape and play around d with it
Thanks a lot for this update on Inkscape's ... update :D I really like using the software, but a whole lot of its features are still very much a mystery to me. Videos such as this do really help to wrap your head around what this thing can do.
The only thing that keeps me from using Inkscape exclusively now, is that it lacks an appearance panel. Offsets are very useful, but far more labor intensive, and not nearly as flexible as the appearance panels in Illustrator and Designer. That said, Inkscape is definitely improving by leaps and bounds with each update, and well worth having in a creative's tool box.
it is very good if we donate to that organization
Okay, hands down the most excited I've been for an Inkscape release, I wasn't all that hyped, then I saw the video and I'm down with Nick, the most excited I've been.
Inkscape just keeps improving.
But one big thing it is missing is a tabbed multiple document interface such as Gimp or Krita.
Does anybody know if or when that might becoming?
A student tried to add this for a google summer of code, but wasn't able to finish it. No news yet beyond that though.
@@doctormo This is the reply I received on Twitter:
"We never promise anything :) . also it still has a ways to go until it works perfectly. What makes it difficult is limited recourse (not enough devs, designer, testers, etc)"
So, in my mind, it reads not enough people are screaming loud enough about it for it to be any sort of priority. But I'm going to continue asking.
Thank you Nick for this video. I am so excited for the shape builder and pattern tool. Last week I made a logo and I had to go through the hassle of using path effects to round off the corners and now it has become this simple. I also make patterns for my art on Inkscape and this new feature of manipulating existing patterns is great. They really outdid themselves with this one.
There's tons of great free and open source software out there, but Inkscape glaringly stands out as one of the best among the best. I only use it occasionally, but it's an absolute joy every time I do. What makes it even better is knowing that whenever I do encounter a problem I don't know to solve, Nick will have a video with a detailed, to the point explanation of how to achieve whatever I need. I cannot thank you enough for this content!
Blender, Bitwarden, HomeAssistant, and Inkscape are amazing demonstrations of why FOSS is no longer the future, it's the now!
I think I can finally ditch CorelDRAW! THANK YOU! And props to Inkscape. Between these new features and pagination (a must for my work), I'm going to start migrating ASAP.
Inkscape is a gem. I still miss Aldus (later Macromedia) FreeHand, though. To me it was way more intuitive to learn than any other pro-level vector graphics program, and the way it handled color palettes was genius. (I don’t think any program before or since has done it as well.)
how did it handeld color palets ?
@@AdamBelis While it did let you just assign a color to an object (or part of an object, like a color within a gradient), the intended way was to actually predefine named color swatches in a palette, and then assign those swatches to objects. Then, if you decided to change your color scheme, you could just redefine the color of a swatch, and every object that used it would automatically change color. (IIRC, you could also assign pale versions of swatches to an object. So for example, if you defined a swatch as dark blue, you could assign an object 30% of the swatch to give it pale blue, and perhaps 70% to a different object to make it medium blue. Then, if you redefine the dark blue to dark green, the light blue and medium blue objects would change to light green and medium green.)
You’d name the swatches by their use (for example, if you’re drawing a bird, you might define “feather main 1”, “feather main 2”, “feather accent”, “beak”, and “feet”). Then, when you draw it, you might make a gradient from 100% “beak” to 50% “beak” to give it dimension. If you decide the bird should have red accents instead of green, you just modify “feather accent”. And so on.
I think you could save palettes to files, so that you could, for example, share the corporate identity palette to other designers.
It all looks very nice and professional, although UX/UI wise I find the path effects dropdown confusing. If you have an effect in the list, the triangular icon does a fold/unfold action, but the exact same icon at the top right corner is used to *add* an effect. I would find it way more intuitive if the plus icon would have just moved from the bottom left corner (previous version) to the top right corner withouth the transformation from a + to a unfolding triangle.
If you want to follow Inkscape’s development cycle, @doctormo posts weekly update vlogs on what they’ve been up to
I just have downloaded it for my Mac and it seems to work great. I’m happy that broken GTK for Ventura has been removed. Thanks a lot for the video!
Fantastic; thank you so much!
In curious how well the typography tools are now
For illustrations it seems Inkscape is good now
But can it compete with illustrator / affinity designer for page layout and type setting
the examples in this video are brilliant and explain the features perfectly. really rare to see explainations this good, great video!
SHAPE BUILDER !!! my favorite from affinity and illustrator
8:30 Wow. Do you remeber how perspective worked in Inkscape 10 years ago? :D It was basically a multi-step hack which was not even non-destructible!
Thanks for the great video... And wow! The Shape builder tool!! I'm excited!
Inkscape 1.3 is significantly fast and quick. Also, Biggest flex is Font reload button.
May I ask you to review a VERY-inexpensive CAD software, and look-alike, to AutoCAD, please? Named...ActCAD, which is based on ICAD's core engine. Thanks! With most-all CAD software going to a crazy-expensive "subscription" model, or "eyecandy" 3D, its making small-time Designer s like me go nuts, or become "pirates". ActCAD seems the best solution (for this old CAD-guy (since '82)))). And, for the many who might comment...NO!!...FreeCAD is NOT suitable for 2D Architectural Planwork, which is my bread-n-butter :-)
In the late 90s, Microsoft purchased "Image Composer" from Altamira(sp?) and included it with FrontPage 97 (v1) & FrontPage 98 (v1.5).
Image Composer was the most intuitive graphics app I've seen to date and included all of these features. Sadly it was raster only and never updated beyond 1.5.
It also treated layers as sprites that were easily manipulated within the canvas vs requiring a layers panel to navigate. I resisted using PS/AI well into the 20-teens and only used them for features Image Composer lacked, ...until it would no longer run on newer Windows versions. I'd be very curious to know if these features were inspired by Image Composer, but regardless, GREAT job Inkscape!!! I'm very excited to start playing with this!!! :)
Inkscape is stepping it up and it's great to see.
Your videos are so good and educational, and it really helped me to appreciate Inkscape as one of the top tier open source software out there.
Thanks a lot for all the amazing content you are creating
awesome! thanks. By the way, blender does a great job at editing and creating vectors too
Its awesome)))!!!! TU very match))))))))))!!!!!!!!!!
Please tell me - is there any Inkscape app for android or any other working way to run it on a tablet pc?
That rounded corners feature is gonna be used TONIGHT!
new path effects reminds me of blenders modifiers!
coincidence? i dont think so :)
I hope they make the command line interface more usable. Some operations, like converting coordinates to absolute or flattening Bézier curves, can only be done when invoking Inkscape with a GUI, which makes batch operations orders of magnitude slower. With larger SVGs it outright crashes. So I had to manually write a Python script to parse the SVG XML and use some guy’s bezier flattening function instead.
Also intersecting paths was giving me strange artefacts, lots of tiny triangles.
Great preview. Are there any new SVG file enhancements, for example cleaning up inline styling. I am currently exporting from Inkscape and then cleaning up my svg file through OMGSVG. I need to do this so I can style the color of SVG icons while editing in Wordpress, which, by default, doesn’t allow the insertion of inline SVG.
Please, I have a question: the previous version, 1.2, was not compatible with MacOS 13 Ventura. Is Inkscape 1.3 compatible with Ventura now?
Thank you very much.