I like the fact that he started talking about raster graphics and vector graphics instead of just jumping into the interface without any context. Not only did he explain Inkscape in 5 mins, he also established himself as a reliable instructor
Tell you what Nick, you da man! I have been watching garbage tutorials on inkscape and suddenly you ended up in my feed, really well presented, helpful and god damn perfect for me.
I don't think I'll ever make money with graphic design (doesn't seem compatible with my career, but you never know) but I bought your master class because I appreciate your effort to promote this free (as in speech and as in beer) software and help people get the most out of it. We need more people like you. I've been enjoying the course a lot, too. Already learned plenty of features that I never dreamed existed.
I used this software very superficially in a graphic design course in high school, and the first impression it gave me was that it was a mediocre program, but watching more tutorials about it, learning and increasing my interest I realized that Inkscape can be an extremely professional level tool. Watching this video and discovering yourself at the same time has opened my eyes to how powerful Inkscape is. Thank you. [Translated by google, my english is not very good]
Must say, you are amazing. I started using Inkscape when I was 17 or so, and lost grip on it completely, recently I got back to it and your videos helped me a lot. I designed my own firms logo, and use it on a regular basis to creat banners, and advertising art works and what not.
This is awesome. I couldn't afford or justify illustrator for my needs (personal logo design for my company as well as labels, stickers and ads ). So I chose inkscape. I know the basics just from converting the knowledge I have from simular programs, but your guides have been able to take that to the next level! I'm getting more confident now and creating is becoming easier. I've got a functional though simple logo that suits my needs. I've also been able to make attractive looking labels for my products and streamline editing those. So thanks again for the guides!
I have been using Inkscape on and off for the past five years and I just learned all of it in literally the four minutes of your video. I look forward to seeing more informative content.
Nick, Long time Inkscape user here. I use it to design files for vinyl cutting and CNC machines and a many other things. I always learn something new from your videos. Thanks for sharing
Just enrolled in all your lifetime access complete bundle courses!!!!! For $39 it is the best offer out there for teaching me how to use these graphic design tools. I am super excited because your work speaks for itself. Can't thank you enough. I have used so many of your tutorials for so much of my designs. You are hands down the inkscape expert. Hopefully I can get there with your courses! Cheers Nick!
Thanks Nick, about 16 years ago I had a sign/graphics company that I closed up. We were doing about $1mil in sales per year. I got tired of it after 20 years of owning it. Now I run a volleyball club and I love my life so much more. We get many t-shirts and hoodies printed up by our local screen printers. They do a great job but their design work is very average. I used to run everything on Corel and Adobe. I got rid of all my computers and software, I was looking for a new software to use once in a while for designing and ran into your channel. Very well done video and this 5 minute video got me very interested in trying out this software. Thank you for making this simple but very clear video to understand!
very nice introduction. I was given Inkscape by a graphic designer friend, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll be following you from now on!! Thank you for sharing your success.
Man, you have been my mentor all this while. Always love your contents. I am serious dude. I really want to get myself dirty with inkscape vector designs. And I wish life could have given average guys like us bucks palliative, then, I must confess, your inkscape Masterclass could have been the first class on my masters. I believe life may change, it surely will change someday. Keep up the fine work dude. Appreciate a million miles to the top of mount Everest.
Not bad. I'm beginner using Adobe Illustrator and i try Inkscape before, but i was not into it because there was no good tutorials to follow up. Your tutorials are really good and I'm subscribing to learn more how to use Inkscape.
Hi nick, I'm using inkscape for one week, after 7 years of Adobe software. Very good software, I'll watch your tutorials in these weeks. Thank you for sharing!
It was the fastest subscription of all the time. I just watch this first video in your channel and decided subscribe. And it was just on time, cause my Adobe Trial period ends tomorrow, hahahaha! Many thanks man!
This video has excited me like hell.. My only regret is to not have started learning it right from beginning of lockdown due to corona... I could have learnt so much in these 3 months.
Thank you so much! I used to use Adobe for school but the monthly payments killed my wallet. I found inkscape and had no clue how to use it but this video helped loads! Thank you!
Thank you so much for putting all of this together... I am also learning Design Space and someone told me that I might find Inkscape more to my liking... Once again.... time to get ahold of a fresh pad of paper and couple of new pens, start binge watching and taking notes.
This is a great brief introductory topical video. Having viewed this only after seeing many of your others, I regret not being able to have watched this first. I love using Inkscape, but it is the most fully featured free software I've experienced. I'll be watching for more 🎥 👀
Thank you for this, I really needed a vector drawing tool, can't afford Illustrator anymore.. THANK YOU and I look forward to your tutorials, this is a great start to familiarizing with this product!
Inkscape and PowerPoint is a great team 😁👍🔥 .svg power. Thanks Nick, I enrolled and viewed all of the lessons in your Inkscape Masterclass 👍 super awesome
So much value in these videos. Wow! . . . Thank you so much. I really appreciate this. You're doing us all a great service. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
That one example from 0:00 - I just started to play with masks in GIMP, separating RGB from the alpha channel, etc. Masks are pretty powerful. And in this Inkscape video in the beginning, instead of redrawing the whole shapes, I would use a simple mask, by copying the whole text, grouping them together, coloring them white, and use them as a mask for the underlying original text. With this you can easily add these hole effects for characters like "S". I can imagine, making a 7-sided star, but only the stroke from it, 40px big, converted with "stroke to path". And in the middle of this quasi stroke, the same star, but only 10px thick. This one will be a transparency mask, going from opaque at the edges, to full transparency in the middle. This way you can draw your own shapes for gradients with transparency.
I was leaning towards Affinity Design since I already own Affinity Photo but after seeing the recent update of Inkscape I feel like it’s the better and more developed platform and I actually like the UI and features better and the crazy part is that it is free. I’m convinced. Thank you for the tutorial also.
Hi there! Your video helped me out a lot!! Thank you so much!! :D Commenting to boost the algorithm so people can find this video when they are having the same issue! :)
Hi, Nick! I'm very glad that I chose this video to watch from the all Inkscape videos out there. It was a very interesting, rich in information and very pleasant to watch and listen. Great overall experience! I'll be checking out your content, I hope you don't mind :) Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such a kind way.
I've been a sign maker for more than 30 years, and Inkscape is my favourite vector tool. After using Corel, Illustrator, Freehand and even FlexiSign; I find the vector tools of Inkscape the fastest and easiest to use of them all. The only bad thing is It's not good to use directly with vinyl cutting plotters, CNC routers, big format printers or laser cutters. But imports and exports a great deal of formats. Otherwise, a great program that has improved a lot since Its early versions. And under Linux - I've Linux Mint at home - is even faster than on Windows.
Oh YEAH!!! You da man! I can see that I'm gonna learn a OT and be able to design th estuff I see in my mind's eye by watching your videos! Thank God I found youjust when I need this the most. This video was informative, inspightfu, inspiring and well-paced - couldn't ask for more. def subbed!
Wow, how nice of you to make a beginner's playlist. I just assumed I had to find the vids myself, thanks for mentioning it in this video. I Love your videos so far.Thx
Started using Adobe Illustrator back in 1985, now giving up on ADOBE. The INKSCAPE interface is a bit mysterious. Hoping your tutorials can make the transition go smoothly. Thank you!
Hi nick. I am new. Can u help me. On the left side of the panel where all the tools icons are. mine only goes to where the little paint can is.. can you tell me how to get the other icons on the left side of the panel like yours??????
Is there an option to "treat all objects as filled"? If an object has a fill set to "none", I want to be able to still select and drag it the same way I would if the object has a fill, say white.
Thanks! Once I find the time this is something I'd like to learn. I've been studying and using Photoshop for years and would like to learn something about vector art. I looked at your master class page... Incredibly affordable at $17.
wow you even explained how to make the software look the same as it does on your screen. just to make it easier for some viewiers like me, cant really express how much i appreciate this. thats a true rarity imo. often its just like "and now you go there and do this" **looking confused at my other screen** where is this?
Thanks Nick for your tutorials. They are amazing and gave me the confidence to work with vector based programs. I have moved onto Coreldraw as I bought a proprietary macro for Corel from a decal making "teacher' as that is what i used my designing for. But each and every time someone that asks him about advice for a free software or inquires about Inkskape, I ALWAYS refer them to your videos.
There's any way to work with spot color for offset printing? Other thing it would be useful was overprinting and trapping between the shapes. Can we export in pdf with this kind of characteristics?
Hello, great tutorials Nick, thanks a lot, also for supporting InkScape in a such valuable way! InkScape has been my favourite vector tool for ages and still is, however the development has been extremely slow and took ages to reach the first official stable release. I am not sure what is the story behind but I would be really happy to know that this will mean a renaissance for the InkScape project. The fear of remaining out of the loop pushed me to look into new free/affordable tools such as Lunacy for Windows 10 and Figma, I would love to see some comparison in your videos. Also to be entirely honest, while InkScape works perfectly on Windows and Linux, is a bit sluggish on Mac, and if I were primarily a Mac user I would probably look into something else as sometimes could be very frustrating.This performance issue on Mac has been acknowledged in the last release note as a persisting issue.
I like the fact high quality tutorials exist for free and open source software. Great work, Nick!
Exactly why the internet is such a valuable resource. People are awesome! 👍
channel should now be "Inkscape Guru" lol
@@UmbraVivens94 xD
actually the best tutorials are for the free and open source softwares, see Blender for example
people whom worth to support!!! ❤️
I like the fact that he started talking about raster graphics and vector graphics instead of just jumping into the interface without any context. Not only did he explain Inkscape in 5 mins, he also established himself as a reliable instructor
The way you structure these tutorials along with your voice and tone is just amazing in my opinion.
The perfect Inkscape tutorials.
Learning _english_ and *graphic design* at once, thanks Nick.
Ikr. His voice is great for narration.
Same here
True ! his English is great and clear
Vamos!
Thanks, Nick. I've viewed every video and have enrolled in your Master Class, which I revisit frequently. Your tutorials are a treasure!
Thanks for the support!
Tell you what Nick, you da man! I have been watching garbage tutorials on inkscape and suddenly you ended up in my feed, really well presented, helpful and god damn perfect for me.
I don't think I'll ever make money with graphic design (doesn't seem compatible with my career, but you never know) but I bought your master class because I appreciate your effort to promote this free (as in speech and as in beer) software and help people get the most out of it. We need more people like you. I've been enjoying the course a lot, too. Already learned plenty of features that I never dreamed existed.
Bless you
One dislike probably an Adobe employee
yeah
more like Adobe's boss
23 Adobe employees till now😂
@@rajeshrn8331 Maybe the dislikes will go back down as they get laid off due to covid.
adobe salty that open-source software is superior to their $30/month products
I used this software very superficially in a graphic design course in high school, and the first impression it gave me was that it was a mediocre program, but watching more tutorials about it, learning and increasing my interest I realized that Inkscape can be an extremely professional level tool. Watching this video and discovering yourself at the same time has opened my eyes to how powerful Inkscape is. Thank you.
[Translated by google, my english is not very good]
I'm here to tell you that your existence help me go though the tough times.
Thank you.
Something about the tone of voice that makes me (a total beginner) feel like I can learn how to use Inkscape. Thanks, Nick.
Must say, you are amazing.
I started using Inkscape when I was 17 or so, and lost grip on it completely, recently I got back to it and your videos helped me a lot.
I designed my own firms logo, and use it on a regular basis to creat banners, and advertising art works and what not.
This is awesome. I couldn't afford or justify illustrator for my needs (personal logo design for my company as well as labels, stickers and ads ). So I chose inkscape. I know the basics just from converting the knowledge I have from simular programs, but your guides have been able to take that to the next level! I'm getting more confident now and creating is becoming easier. I've got a functional though simple logo that suits my needs. I've also been able to make attractive looking labels for my products and streamline editing those. So thanks again for the guides!
I have been using Inkscape on and off for the past five years and I just learned all of it in literally the four minutes of your video. I look forward to seeing more informative content.
Nick, Long time Inkscape user here. I use it to design files for vinyl cutting and CNC machines and a many other things. I always learn something new from your videos. Thanks for sharing
Nick,
as always, delivered in a professional, easy to understand manner.
Just enrolled in all your lifetime access complete bundle courses!!!!! For $39 it is the best offer out there for teaching me how to use these graphic design tools. I am super excited because your work speaks for itself. Can't thank you enough. I have used so many of your tutorials for so much of my designs. You are hands down the inkscape expert. Hopefully I can get there with your courses! Cheers Nick!
Thanks Nick, about 16 years ago I had a sign/graphics company that I closed up. We were doing about $1mil in sales per year. I got tired of it after 20 years of owning it. Now I run a volleyball club and I love my life so much more. We get many t-shirts and hoodies printed up by our local screen printers. They do a great job but their design work is very average. I used to run everything on Corel and Adobe. I got rid of all my computers and software, I was looking for a new software to use once in a while for designing and ran into your channel. Very well done video and this 5 minute video got me very interested in trying out this software. Thank you for making this simple but very clear video to understand!
Happy I found this channel. Good tone of voice (important to me), articulate & succinct. Looking forward to learning something new!
very nice introduction. I was given Inkscape by a graphic designer friend, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll be following you from now on!! Thank you for sharing your success.
Man, you have been my mentor all this while. Always love your contents. I am serious dude. I really want to get myself dirty with inkscape vector designs. And I wish life could have given average guys like us bucks palliative, then, I must confess, your inkscape Masterclass could have been the first class on my masters. I believe life may change, it surely will change someday. Keep up the fine work dude. Appreciate a million miles to the top of mount Everest.
I am glad I found this channel. Really, gonna help me because I need to make my channel look better.
You have changed my life sir! Signing up for class in a few mins, I NEED THIS KNOWLEDGE!!
Not bad. I'm beginner using Adobe Illustrator and i try Inkscape before, but i was not into it because there was no good tutorials to follow up. Your tutorials are really good and I'm subscribing to learn more how to use Inkscape.
Hi nick, I'm using inkscape for one week, after 7 years of Adobe software. Very good software, I'll watch your tutorials in these weeks. Thank you for sharing!
Been listening to you for 4 and a half minutes and I already feel like subbing.
Short, concise and straight to the point, great tutorial Nick!
It was the fastest subscription of all the time. I just watch this first video in your channel and decided subscribe. And it was just on time, cause my Adobe Trial period ends tomorrow, hahahaha! Many thanks man!
This video has excited me like hell.. My only regret is to not have started learning it right from beginning of lockdown due to corona... I could have learnt so much in these 3 months.
Hope you been busy
Hey I hope you succeeded or got closer to your goal !
Thank you so much! I used to use Adobe for school but the monthly payments killed my wallet. I found inkscape and had no clue how to use it but this video helped loads! Thank you!
You are just great for using Inkscape as a professional tool, and even more great for teaching others! Just amazing
Thank you so much for putting all of this together... I am also learning Design Space and someone told me that I might find Inkscape more to my liking... Once again.... time to get ahold of a fresh pad of paper and couple of new pens, start binge watching and taking notes.
Your presentation is well put together and was happy to hear you have a course. I am going to find it and enroll. Thank you for the great explanation.
Thanks, hope you enjoy
I am new to using Inkskape, every bit of help is much needed..thank you for your videos Nick!
It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.
This is a great brief introductory topical video.
Having viewed this only after seeing many of your others, I regret not being able to have watched this first. I love using Inkscape, but it is the most fully featured free software I've experienced.
I'll be watching for more 🎥 👀
This is awesome. I actually might need this for a few things, but I'm going to be staying from scratch so this is a great resource.
Damn this is probably the most satisfying explanation I've ever heard in my life , thanks a lot man💙💙🔥
made the entirety of one of my school projects with inkspace, these tutorials would have been very helpful ! will definitely check your other videos !
This channel is so awesome, thank you Mr. Nick
Im a Adobe Illustrator guy, but im impressed with the quality of your work with inkScape, i'll give a shot to inkScape
Thank you for this, I really needed a vector drawing tool, can't afford Illustrator anymore.. THANK YOU and I look forward to your tutorials, this is a great start to familiarizing with this product!
Inkscape in professional hands is pretty powerful tool. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and techniques (on this and other videos)!
I’m enjoying your videos and enrolled in your courses for step by step instructions. Well worth the money!
Inkscape and PowerPoint is a great team 😁👍🔥 .svg power. Thanks Nick, I enrolled and viewed all of the lessons in your Inkscape Masterclass 👍 super awesome
I subs to you Sir you got nice content like Neumorphic design
@@mrfux-ij2lz thanks Sir :)
Your tutorials are so good, you explain with a simple language and I can understand your english, it helps me very much.
I use Inkscape quite often and have barely just scratched the surface. Thanks for the massive tutorial!
Thank you Nick for making these great tutorials freely available.
You delivered an otherwise complex information in such easy and digestible manner. Pure talent 👏
your videos are amazing and informative i really come to back to your videos everytime when i make graphincs for my business
This is a great intro video; I love vectors because they are so reusable. It's been my art program of choice for a long time now.
So much value in these videos. Wow! . . . Thank you so much. I really appreciate this. You're doing us all a great service. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much, professor. We have benefited a lot from you, and we are still learning. Thank you from the heart
That one example from 0:00 - I just started to play with masks in GIMP, separating RGB from the alpha channel, etc. Masks are pretty powerful.
And in this Inkscape video in the beginning, instead of redrawing the whole shapes, I would use a simple mask, by copying the whole text, grouping them together, coloring them white, and use them as a mask for the underlying original text. With this you can easily add these hole effects for characters like "S".
I can imagine, making a 7-sided star, but only the stroke from it, 40px big, converted with "stroke to path". And in the middle of this quasi stroke, the same star, but only 10px thick. This one will be a transparency mask, going from opaque at the edges, to full transparency in the middle.
This way you can draw your own shapes for gradients with transparency.
You are one of the best reviewers. It helps a lot when creating icons, I’ll tell you. Thanks for showing!
I was leaning towards Affinity Design since I already own Affinity Photo but after seeing the recent update of Inkscape I feel like it’s the better and more developed platform and I actually like the UI and features better and the crazy part is that it is free. I’m convinced. Thank you for the tutorial also.
It is awesome that you did this. I'll chek your beginner's playlist right away and then on to the masterclass.
you are the best, your content is awesome and helps a lot of people
Best channel on UA-cam. Thanks Nick!
Nick, your tutorials and dedication are much appreciated. Thanks for all the work!
An amazing intro thanks very much. I'll start with that beginner's playlist.
You are a gem man; thank you for making all these tutorials!
Hi there! Your video helped me out a lot!! Thank you so much!! :D
Commenting to boost the algorithm so people can find this video when they are having the same issue! :)
My sanity has been saved! I just found this channel, and it's PERFECT! Woot!
This channel is great im glad I found it
Clear and concise as always.... Your tutorials are helpful as every and they have helped me to no end with my own designs
Saw this video and was instantly drawn in... downloading it right now 👍
This is absolutely the best i've ever seen
This. Is. What. I. Need.
Keep giving good inkscape tutorial🙌
Hi, Nick! I'm very glad that I chose this video to watch from the all Inkscape videos out there. It was a very interesting, rich in information and very pleasant to watch and listen. Great overall experience! I'll be checking out your content, I hope you don't mind :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such a kind way.
I've been a sign maker for more than 30 years, and Inkscape is my favourite vector tool.
After using Corel, Illustrator, Freehand and even FlexiSign; I find the vector tools of Inkscape the fastest and easiest to use of them all.
The only bad thing is It's not good to use directly with vinyl cutting plotters, CNC routers, big format printers or laser cutters. But imports and exports a great deal of formats.
Otherwise, a great program that has improved a lot since Its early versions. And under Linux - I've Linux Mint at home - is even faster than on Windows.
What's that font at 1:33 Logo design?
www.dafont.com/kirsty.font ( logosbynick.com/design-a-logo-with-inkscape/ )
You'll never know
Thank you. Your description was clear and concise. Just what I was looking for. I will give it a try!
How is that forest in the bear background made? At 0:47
Oh YEAH!!! You da man! I can see that I'm gonna learn a OT and be able to design th estuff I see in my mind's eye by watching your videos! Thank God I found youjust when I need this the most. This video was informative, inspightfu, inspiring and well-paced - couldn't ask for more. def subbed!
Wow, how nice of you to make a beginner's playlist. I just assumed I had to find the vids myself, thanks for mentioning it in this video. I Love your videos so far.Thx
I've already fallen in love with the software, and much more with how well it's explained even for beginners. Can't wait to start off!
Your videos are really helping me now for my project.And I'm a fan of your voice😅.Thanks a lot man♥️
how did you make the logo for dabble lab at 3:43
You’re vids are best in class 👏👍🌟
when i go to interface there is no option to select theme...
Started using Adobe Illustrator back in 1985, now giving up on ADOBE. The INKSCAPE interface is a bit mysterious. Hoping your tutorials can make the transition go smoothly. Thank you!
Brilliant! I'm going to work through the Beginners Playlist and see if I'm even slightly eligible to sign up for your Master class. Thank you.
I have watched so many of these tutorials, they have all been so helpful. But my favorite part is how hard my man Nick STANS dark mode
i am in need of dire help, i have created and svg, but when i try to open it, it say unsupported file! please help!
is there any way to make the menus and tools larger on the screen?
Hi nick. I am new. Can u help me. On the left side of the panel where all the tools icons are. mine only goes to where the little paint can is.. can you tell me how to get the other icons on the left side of the panel like yours??????
Is there an option to "treat all objects as filled"? If an object has a fill set to "none", I want to be able to still select and drag it the same way I would if the object has a fill, say white.
Question how did you do that 0:48
Thanks! Once I find the time this is something I'd like to learn. I've been studying and using Photoshop for years and would like to learn something about vector art. I looked at your master class page... Incredibly affordable at $17.
I am unable to figure out how to format the right side bar as yours. Mine is just 3 tabs
wow you even explained how to make the software look the same as it does on your screen. just to make it easier for some viewiers like me, cant really express how much i appreciate this. thats a true rarity imo.
often its just like "and now you go there and do this" **looking confused at my other screen** where is this?
I want to know how to upload files so I can print them on sublimation paper. Do you have something for that? Thanks
I love what you do! Never stop putting out all these tips and tricks!
I have created several logos like My pfp!
You're providing lots of value with your tutorials, thank you :)
Thanks Nick for your tutorials. They are amazing and gave me the confidence to work with vector based programs. I have moved onto Coreldraw as I bought a proprietary macro for Corel from a decal making "teacher' as that is what i used my designing for. But each and every time someone that asks him about advice for a free software or inquires about Inkskape, I ALWAYS refer them to your videos.
There's any way to work with spot color for offset printing?
Other thing it would be useful was overprinting and trapping between the shapes.
Can we export in pdf with this kind of characteristics?
Hello, great tutorials Nick, thanks a lot, also for supporting InkScape in a such valuable way! InkScape has been my favourite vector tool for ages and still is, however the development has been extremely slow and took ages to reach the first official stable release. I am not sure what is the story behind but I would be really happy to know that this will mean a renaissance for the InkScape project. The fear of remaining out of the loop pushed me to look into new free/affordable tools such as Lunacy for Windows 10 and Figma, I would love to see some comparison in your videos. Also to be entirely honest, while InkScape works perfectly on Windows and Linux, is a bit sluggish on Mac, and if I were primarily a Mac user I would probably look into something else as sometimes could be very frustrating.This performance issue on Mac has been acknowledged in the last release note as a persisting issue.
Subscribed after you picked the dark theme. A man of Culture lol
Love ur videos. Keep up the good work
well done.