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
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.
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!
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 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...
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!
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 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 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💛
9:07 It takes more than clicking the blue circle to remove the binding to the curved text ! You have to click on the curved text and then go to Path > Object To Path
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.
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!
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.
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'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.
one thing that you did not include in the Text lesson was to click filter and show the very extensive choices available to apply effects to the font ...but thanks for what you did show ...
4:48 Hi TJ in this part i try to increase spacing between letters by holding Alt + Shift + but for whatever reason it just didn't work you have any idea why ?
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I suggest that teaching is best done not when you say "You can do this or that", but actually make your students do specific things you have in mind.
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.
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 !
Hello TJ... Your videos are extremely helpful. I was wondering if you can do a tutorial of how to do a shadow on text for us beginners. Thanks in advance!
When I try to move a subset of letters in the text box up or down using the "alt" key, nothing happens. Is there some other way to move these letters besides the alt key?
You cannot use a text box with vertical kerning. You have to just click where you want to type and then type - adjust. A text box will grey out the options to Vertically Kern the text.
Thank you for all your instructions on Inkscape. It's been very helpful. Question; Why is it that my fonts all come out gray and fat? No matter what font I use they stay gray and are almost unreadable. I'm sure it's a setting I'm missing but I've watched several videos, tried help pages, and not finding anything.
Haven't messed around with text manipulation in a while and I just tried to simply center a paragraph similar to how center in Word works. How do you do that in newer version of inkscape? I don't see that entire tool bar under the font family as shown in the video at all. Nevermind, I found the option on the long horizontal toolbar across the top. That was driving me crazy like finding waldo and waldo ain't there.
Once you have changed the aspect ratio by resizing you are screwed since there is no option to revert that even if you set a new font size, it will just keep that screwed aspect ratio
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!
Good Day, Thanks so much for your videos, new to this world. I've bought a CNC plasma cutting device an want to make cut files. I've downloaded a SVG file but need to clean up the font, rounding text letters, eliminating breaks etc. I've tried in the node tool but cant seem to get it. (FYI I'm using an IMack)
QUESTION: I couldn't get the letter spacing shortcut (shift + alt) to work for me. I figured out how to do it using the + - options from the toolbar but wondering what I'm doing wrong that the keyboard shortcut wouldn't work. Thank you so much for making easy to follow tutorials! I was getting so frustrated trying to find a decent source for learning Inkscape and about ready to give up. You have changed that :-)
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?
Is there a way to weld the letters together so that the word is one object? I am making cut files and need it to be one cut path rather than each individual letter.
I'm not able to change the allignment of letters in single word like you did with 'TJFree' by holding selecting a single alphabet with shift and then holding alt key and pressing up or down arrow key. Kindly help me out.
I am just learning inkscape..Question... After I finished with the fill and stroke part.. I added text but it was clear text... no color. I did figure out how to get my gradient to fill it in, however I am a bit confused as to why my text did not fill in automatically. I just downloaded Inkscape a few days ago, (8-6-22). Why did I have to drag my text box to include the new text?? Did I miss something??
Hi Thanks so much for sharing this tutorial! However, I have been following you as I watch your video and somehow when increasing or decreasing the space between letters in a line by holding down both alt & shift at the same time and hitting + or -, the letters are not reacting at all. I may be doing something wrong. What could it be? Thanks again!
There is an icon "AA" in the upper taskbar where you can change space between characters. You select your text or your texbox and then you press + or - next to the icon to increase or decrease the space.
i really love your videos easy to understand and upply i only have a question about "change case" option why when i use it, an error appear awsome vds by the way
My Text and Font menu is much different than in your UA-cam Lesson 6. I cannot find the left, right, center text justifications icons. They don't exist! Appreciate your 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.
Writing this comment for anyone who could not figure out why the Alt moving of an individual letter would not work. The horizontal kerning, vertical kerning and character rotations do not work if the text is a "flowed text". Flowed text is created by drawing the text box that your text goes in. Plain text is created by just clicking anywhere on the page with the text tool and then typing. Hopefully this saves you time and frustration.
Thanks for your great videos . . . I am going through them one by one, like a college class . . . so to speak. Great Stuff!!! But, I do have a question that perhaps you can answer for me. I am using Windows 10. And, I am using version 1.3.2 of Inkscape. I was doing the step--along with you--where you hold done the ALT-Shift-< . . . and the ALT-Shift-> . . . to compress or expand the text. It worked as it should for a short time. Then, I got some weird pop-up in the lower right-hand corner of my screen. I did not see what it said . . . then, it disappeared . . . immediately this feature stopped working. Now, when I do this, it simply types the < or > characters. Did Windows somehow block my ALT feature, do you think??? And, is there a way to undo this so that I can do this function moving forward??? Thanks for your help.
Hi and really thank you for the tutorials on Inkscape. I noticed that when I highlight a letter and press alt i can't seem to be able to move it with the up and down arrows. Also, I can't always highlight a letter from the same word. Sometimes I need to create a new text in order to try out this exercise. Any idea why is that? Do I need to change something in the settings? Thanks for your time!
Same here but some one here in the comment section has its solution very clearly so I would suggest to see that comment But in short you have to select the text you want play with and then after selecting there are 5 options available at the top of the screen Be sure to open text and font window
If I want to make the corners slight smoother? Is it possible, like in illustrator the font turns into outline, letting me to shape the font I want to make into. Please guide,
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.
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
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 am a complete beginner and i am very grateful for your method of teaching
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.
Such a clear explanations. Best teacher that I met in internet.
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!
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
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!
These are terrific. Nice, bite size chunks and very clear. I'm loving the software and enjoying learning it; thanks.
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
I'm binge watching this whole series right now.
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!
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!
Your lessons are so helpful. I’m starting to feel like a semi pro 😊. Thanks again
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 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 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💛
Great job explaining all the features! The best instructional video I have seen on UA-cam so far!
Loving these lessons! Such a big help, very easy to understand and not confusing. You are amazing sir. :)
9:07 It takes more than clicking the blue circle to remove the binding to the curved text ! You have to click on the curved text and then go to Path > Object To Path
Very well presented.
Inkscape is the first package I've come across that doesn't use a 'single' menu for creating and manipulating text.
Really appreciate these videos! More people should know about Inkscape! Thanks again!
THANKS SO MUCH I WAS SOOO LOST UNTIL I STARTED WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS , I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS STILL.
THANK YOU... I love this program, but it can be overwhelming. I really appreciate the simplification!!
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.
Absolutely love this tutorial, taught it to me like a 3rd grader. Thank you
Fantastic tutorials, concise and well explained-thankyou!!
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!
Who needs college when you got UA-cam. 2020 is a good time to be alive
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.
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!
Thank you so much for teaching me how to use inkscape, I'm an older learner and crs!
Very nice, love the text around shapes tool!
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.
Almost onw week over with Inkscape and these Valuable videos.. Thank you... Feel like I'm addicting to Inkscape..
You are such an awesome teacher .. God bless!
Awesome example of the right way to do an intro tutorial for an app.
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.
Thank you very much for the lessons!Merry Christmass from Greece!
3:57 Now the justify tools are at the top of the toolbar below paths and object settings.
Dude I really hope you know how helpful these are
Well that was a good tutorial !! Also really happy that I found inkscape and your channel
one thing that you did not include in the Text lesson was to click filter and show the very extensive choices available to apply effects to the font ...but thanks for what you did show ...
Thank you showing how to do this. Only using Inkscape to be able to make vector svg's. Tried drawing , but without a tablet or ipad, pretty difficult.
4:48 Hi TJ in this part i try to increase spacing between letters by holding Alt + Shift + but for whatever reason it just didn't work you have any idea why ?
This work is a goldmine !...cheers.
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I suggest that teaching is best done not when you say "You can do this or that", but actually make your students do specific things you have in mind.
Such a great teacher!
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
Alt+shift+> is not working in inkspace....
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 !
9:34 "goes around the circle HEH HEH!" xD great vid man
He got me there too XD
Hello TJ... Your videos are extremely helpful. I was wondering if you can do a tutorial of how to do a shadow on text for us beginners. Thanks in advance!
Thanks, I'll see what I can do!
Great explaining! Easy for a beginner like me. Thanks.
Great tutorials. These have helped me edit a lot of files for my cnc router
That's good to hear!
Is there a way to arch the text without going around a circle or oval? Thanks
And your videos are very helpful.
Late to the party but this is my fav video so far.
When I try to move a subset of letters in the text box up or down using the "alt" key, nothing happens. Is there some other way to move these letters besides the alt key?
You cannot use a text box with vertical kerning. You have to just click where you want to type and then type - adjust. A text box will grey out the options to Vertically Kern the text.
@@claytonstovall2381 Thank you.
@@claytonstovall2381 thank u
@@claytonstovall2381 i have the same problem but cant figure out how resolve, also didnt get Clayton's suggestion
got it. just began typing a new word then tried and it worked..
Thank you for all your instructions on Inkscape. It's been very helpful. Question; Why is it that my fonts all come out gray and fat? No matter what font I use they stay gray and are almost unreadable. I'm sure it's a setting I'm missing but I've watched several videos, tried help pages, and not finding anything.
HI , I LIKE YOUR VIDEO AND THE STYLE OF TEACHING THANK YOU.
To anyone having trouble Saving Text as SVG - Select the Text, Click path and select 'Object to Path' Then save!
Thanks so much. This is an excellent start for me. I love it!
You're welcome!
Haven't messed around with text manipulation in a while and I just tried to simply center a paragraph similar to how center in Word works. How do you do that in newer version of inkscape? I don't see that entire tool bar under the font family as shown in the video at all. Nevermind, I found the option on the long horizontal toolbar across the top. That was driving me crazy like finding waldo and waldo ain't there.
Excellent information, very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you for sharing!
Once you have changed the aspect ratio by resizing you are screwed since there is no option to revert that even if you set a new font size, it will just keep that screwed aspect ratio
Great simple informative video, thanks
finally, a good video to get the text graphics im looking for.
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!
thanks for all your tutorials
Good Day, Thanks so much for your videos, new to this world. I've bought a CNC plasma cutting device an want to make cut files. I've downloaded a SVG file but need to clean up the font, rounding text letters, eliminating breaks etc. I've tried in the node tool but cant seem to get it. (FYI I'm using an IMack)
QUESTION: I couldn't get the letter spacing shortcut (shift + alt) to work for me. I figured out how to do it using the + - options from the toolbar but wondering what I'm doing wrong that the keyboard shortcut wouldn't work. Thank you so much for making easy to follow tutorials! I was getting so frustrated trying to find a decent source for learning Inkscape and about ready to give up. You have changed that :-)
TJ. Do you have a tutorial on how to create editable text? Say for adding to a template. Great tutorials!!!
I think alt+ shift then pressing left right button is the correct way not greater than less than.
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?
Is there a way to weld the letters together so that the word is one object? I am making cut files and need it to be one cut path rather than each individual letter.
I'm not able to change the allignment of letters in single word like you did with 'TJFree' by holding selecting a single alphabet with shift and then holding alt key and pressing up or down arrow key. Kindly help me out.
Is there a way to use a different font not provided within Inkscape.
Just watched your Inkscape and they are wonderful. Is there a writing font that i can use for cricut.
I am just learning inkscape..Question... After I finished with the fill and stroke part.. I added text but it was clear text... no color. I did figure out how to get my gradient to fill it in, however I am a bit confused as to why my text did not fill in automatically. I just downloaded Inkscape a few days ago, (8-6-22). Why did I have to drag my text box to include the new text?? Did I miss something??
Just saying there are couple of hotkeys that are not working on the newest version on Inkscape (ALT+arrow keys) for example does not work here
Alt+Shift+ doesn't work on my Inkscape. Is there a way to manage text spacing without the keyboard shortcut?
I have the 32-bit version of Inkscape 1.1, but don't have the text options of Left, Right, or Justify (4:57) in my "Text and Font" window?
Great tutorials. Only getting started with inkscape!
Question: Can one import/download other fonts than the ones supplied by Inkscape?
Hi Thanks so much for sharing this tutorial! However, I have been following you as I watch your video and somehow when increasing or decreasing the space between letters in a line by holding down both alt & shift at the same time and hitting + or -, the letters are not reacting at all. I may be doing something wrong. What could it be? Thanks again!
Mine too. If u get any solution please let me know!
he said greater than and less than not plus and minus? I have a mac and that specific action is not working for me either regardless of what i press
Yes I wondered maybe if it was a feature that had been removed as this video is now 2 years old
There is an icon "AA" in the upper taskbar where you can change space between characters. You select your text or your texbox and then you press + or - next to the icon to increase or decrease the space.
i really love your videos easy to understand and upply
i only have a question about "change case" option why when i use it, an error appear
awsome vds by the way
My Text and Font menu is much different than in your UA-cam Lesson 6. I cannot find the left, right, center text justifications icons. They don't exist! Appreciate your help.
So helpful! Thanks for doing all this for free. Any other way we can support you?
Thanks Eric. Sharing the information helps a lot. If you have the time or money, consider contributing towards your fav software's development.
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.
Writing this comment for anyone who could not figure out why the Alt moving of an individual letter would not work. The horizontal kerning, vertical kerning and character rotations do not work if the text is a "flowed text". Flowed text is created by drawing the text box that your text goes in. Plain text is created by just clicking anywhere on the page with the text tool and then typing. Hopefully this saves you time and frustration.
This is the answer I needed thanks!
What does the flow into frame mean? Thanks for these videos by the way, I love them!
Thanks for your great videos . . . I am going through them one by one, like a college class . . . so to speak. Great Stuff!!! But, I do have a question that perhaps you can answer for me. I am using Windows 10. And, I am using version 1.3.2 of Inkscape. I was doing the step--along with you--where you hold done the ALT-Shift-< . . . and the ALT-Shift-> . . . to compress or expand the text. It worked as it should for a short time. Then, I got some weird pop-up in the lower right-hand corner of my screen. I did not see what it said . . . then, it disappeared . . . immediately this feature stopped working. Now, when I do this, it simply types the < or > characters. Did Windows somehow block my ALT feature, do you think??? And, is there a way to undo this so that I can do this function moving forward??? Thanks for your help.
Hi and really thank you for the tutorials on Inkscape. I noticed that when I highlight a letter and press alt i can't seem to be able to move it with the up and down arrows. Also, I can't always highlight a letter from the same word. Sometimes I need to create a new text in order to try out this exercise. Any idea why is that? Do I need to change something in the settings? Thanks for your time!
yeah i can't move the single letters either :/
same here, was trying to search the way for a macbook laptop
@@paradoxlrainbow same
Same here but some one here in the comment section has its solution very clearly so I would suggest to see that comment
But in short you have to select the text you want play with and then after selecting there are 5 options available at the top of the screen
Be sure to open text and font window
Ty I got my first divine because of you
TNice tutorials video really helped! Thank you ❤
5:45 Can you also reset the positions of the letters? Or just a single letter?
If I want to make the corners slight smoother? Is it possible, like in illustrator the font turns into outline, letting me to shape the font I want to make into. Please guide,
thank you for sharing, learned a lot from them
Hi, I would like to thank you for these awesome videos, just one question, how can I fit a line of text into shapes?
Can you have text ane cut out a word of that text? Or A shape adn cut the words you type out of that shape? Great videos!
presented very well! thanks TJ this is a big help!
You're welcome!