Inkscape Grunge Background and Distressed Text Effect Tutorial

Inkscape tutorial hosted by Rick Johanson, showing you to make grunge backgrounds and distressed text effect. Follow along and learn the basics of Inkscape, including the how to do a simple mask, Trace Bitmap and how to resize page to content. Also see live demonstration of color blend options.
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[@brainangles]

Thanks again for sharing your digital experiments and enthusiasm in your tutorials. Stay inspired!

[@RifLinux]

Thanks

[@francescopenasa5916]

Thank you very much!!! It might be cool to apply a "displacement" effect, with the graphics deforming according to the background for greater realism. Unfortunately (at least on Mac) managing the filters necessary to obtain this effect causes continuous crashes of Inkscape, but the result is excellent!

[@wimdg4230]

another great tutorial, thanks man ! 🙏

[@trinitri9345]

Thank you, Mr IronEcho !!!😃 This is exactly what I wanted, plus I learnt a few other things! Great video!

[@ramkumarkrishnamoorthy9739]

Thanks for all your tutorials . Can you show us how to make mandala animal Wall art please ??

[@emilyhellwig213]

That alt arrow key trick for kerning is next level! Thank you, Rick!! That will save me oodles of time! As always, so enjoy your tutorials and all the tips and tricks you weave throughout them! Just so you know, when I went to repeat your graffiti tutorial, I noticed Motion is no longer an option. “Long shadow” accomplishes the intended effect but might be worth mentioning in the description of that older video!

[@pierreolivier7453]

Amazing as always!

[@rockyhudson7814]

Thank you for another great tutorial Rick. I've learned so much from you. I do a lot of Inkscape art that begins with photos of trees (it often involves much clipping and masking and many layers of filters :-D ). I admire the digital/photographic art that other artists make in Photoshop, where they put different colours in the gaps between the tree branches to give a sort of stained glass effect. Do you know if it's possible to create this stained glass effect in Inkscape? Thanks!

[@MoxOwl]

Cool stuff and great video...Could you how to design a board like the world of warcraft logo you on the game box?

[@birdmun]

Small comment. When you have a rectangle that you want to size things to, you could copy and then select the new object and paste height and width. I don't know if it works for other shapes; eg copy and oval and then paste a shape as an oval.

[@Just_Here_For_The_Comments]

Awesome as always, Rick. For what it's worth, I still wear my flannels and love the grunge music of my youth.

[@fatimah1487]

Thank you nick for these tutorials. these are really helpful

[@shnr838]

How can we convert rgb to CMYK in inkscape

[@atahanacik365]

I believe no luck with a map art video Rick :( I hope all is well.

[@greasyfingergarage]

A way to save a little bit of time when resizing things is select the object that you want the size to be, copy it just like you copy text. Then select the object that you want to resize and go to Edit>Paste... and select size (or whatever other part you want resized). On a side note. Can we just go back to the 90s please? That was peak humanity.