Wow you are an excellent teacher! I have been watching various Inkscape tutorials as I have just downloaded it, and you are by far the best and clearest for a beginner. Thanks!
I noticed that while changing the dpi, it automatically changes the width and height according to dpi or we may say while changing the width and height it automatically changes the dpi. There is no way to maintain aspect ration.
5:25 yeah, that doesn't work. The dimensions automatically change when you change the dpi, it even shows in your video when you press enter. Inkscape sucks, they've never fixed this.
Very good... crisp clear and to the point. No jaw jacking about your moms 50-year-old sewing machine lol. I sent some files to a small company and individual that does DTF Direct to print transfers for T-shirt graphics and what she told me was whatever Program I originally created the graphics on kept the DPI low so I tried to go online to do an online DPI change and it didn't work so I found out about inkscape and I'm going to you Use your Program tutorials to streamline the process so that when I resend her the Prints that I want on my T shirts It will have the corrected dpi. Thank you again for your video
awesome info! I'm just now getting deeper into the intricacies of Inkscape. Before, I only needed to convert shapes for a digital cutter. Now, I'm working with converting images for other uses and this has become another piece of my education. Thank you!!!
Sorry for all the comments, but the export page options has some potential. You could deliberately clip off partials of objects that are partly on and off the page.
Hi Jim, you're right. I use the export area as a means of clipping sometimes. Sometimes I'll choose export selection, and then draw a transparent rectangle around exactly what I want to export.
Hi Tj! 1 notice - if you change the image size (f.e. to 512px) and THEN also change dpi size, the image size automaticly changes again (from 512px) .... and it's the same when you first change dpi and then manipulate with image size , then dpi changes itself into smaller/bigger .... :-/
yo, smooth video! nice! the only thing i don't understand: how did you get your bevels on the penguin so smooth? when i try to make something 3d-looking, i always end up with a pixelated mess, because inkscape apparently (as told by the dev on twitter) is using only 256 "height" layers for its 3d bevels and such...
sorry - totally newb question - I am not seeing how you got the 2 extra panels up on the right side as part of the inkscape scene. Having that lower left window (not darktable) showing file size and what the file actually looks like would be quite handy - how'd you do that?
Thanks, Very Helpful :) Exactly what I was looking for. I am printing to garment and had to design in a design program but was limited to what I can do, so Inkscape and your tutorials have been a blessing and great asset in moving forward in the business without having to pay to do it, when your on start up company shoestring budgets, lol. Saves me money and I'm learning another useful trick of the design trade that will help across multiple platforms🤓
dude, when you change the dpi it changes the width and height...this video lol you should pay attention to what you are doing before you make a video about it.
Why are you using 96dpi for web pages when you should be using 72? Also, if saving images for web pages it's best to have the images saved out in the sizes you need them. If you don't need transparency with the images use JPG files instead and use something like quality 8 (of 12). This will cut the file size down considerably. You can have one large image and scale it everywhere but if you scale it down from a large copy, you've got to calculate the width and height in your HTML where having separate images you can scale down using the art program instead. I know images can't be saved out as JPG in Inkscape - save PNG first and use something else to convert them, many free online converters. Awesome tutorial series - today I installed Inkscape for the first time and wonder why I didn't know of this software before!
hello tj, thanks ever so much for your tutorials - they are very helpful! question: how can i incorporate crop- and bleed marks and colour information in my export pdf for the printer?
That helps a lot! Would you use this method if you are putting an SVG image on a PDF or is there a different method? Thanks for doing these tutorials as you make the instructions very clear.
I haven't used Inkscape for PDFs very much. A better tool for creating PDFs is Scribus. But yes, for putting images in PDF files, I would export them as PNG images. I made a history book that was a PDF document that I sent to a printing co, and some of its images were made in Inkscape and exported as 600 DPI .PNG images.
Hi and blessings. Question, If I export a 1920 x 1920 on 300 dpi, but scale it on Photoshop to 3500 x 3500 would it show blurry/pixelated when printed on a T-Shirt from an out source company? Thank you.
When exporting, I want the image size to be 18x18, but it only lets me do 18x19. How do I export 18x18? In other words, I'd like to export some of the white space. To clarify, I'm trying to export the star shape but it's slightly wider than it is long and I'd like to export some white space to even its height/width since this dimension is strict.
The easiest way is to resize the actual artwork to be 18x18 on the canvas then select it, and make sure the 'selections' tab is clicked in the export settings.
Hi, i need help. In the document settings, i chosed displayed unit as pixels and then custom size of 9200×9200. After designing, i tried exporting as png. While the the page is still 9200×9200 px, the image size (which is within that page) showed 23049×22133 px with 300DPI. Why is this so? I cant upload the design to my tshirt store because it says file is too big. Anyone here facing the same problem?
If someone wants a logo in vector format do you just save as then give them the save as file? If so how do you stop them from modifying your logo accidentally ??
My image exported half face. It is a bust with head. Top menu Pixels reads 1500.366x 2217.431 On Document properties Image size W 1500px h 2121px DPI 181.43. But when it is exported, only half face is shown. What is going on ? My Inkscape version is 1.3. Please tackle this. My sincere thanks to all.
Great Inkscape tutorials! I was wondering which desktop settings you were using in this video. Looks like Ubuntu with Gnome but with a special theme..? And how have you managed to arrange the windows that they are not overlapping when you open up another one?
Thank you! I'm using the Solus OS linux distro, but I'm using the i3 window manager on top of it. Its a tiling window manager, thats what gives it a different look and feel.
I made a graphic for a friend to use as a profile picture for Xbox and discord, though it doesn't fit in the dimensions for the profile picture. I've been making it smaller and exporting it to my phones gallery and the only thing that happens is it just gets more pixilated and still doesn't fit the size.
Thanks - I just saw this video and am watching it now. My first question is when you first exported you had an additional pane to the right of the Export As PNG window which showed the files in the destination - desktop for you. And you clicked on the image to get a preview. How do you get that window, or whatever you call it, open?
good job , you have done very good job covering pretty much all famous free softwares ,any beginner could become nearly pro watching these series thank you very much , i ask this time as always😊 if you could explain the jessyink extension for making slide show (i find it alternative to focusky) and the xia (is it better than jessy) and also i wanna know which distro you have installed on i3 envirment and if it was originally with the distro (li manjaro i3) or you configure it your self , thank you for everything you do on this channel
The distro I am using is SolusOS. It did not come with i3, but was available in the package manager using eopkg, so the install and config was fairly simple.
Hello, first of all I must say, that your videos are very very good!!! I looked them all, but nevertheless I still have one problem. For my selfmade special kind of plotter I need an html file. So I created the stroke of a square with the side length of 50 px, transformed it to a path and saved it to sq.html. And this was the result as I expected: IN;FS1;VS1;SP1;PU0,50;PD50,50,50,0,0,0,0,50;SP0;PU0,0;IN; So far so good. But if I do the same thing with a filled square, the result is exactly the same and the fill is completely ignored. I expected inkscape to create a bunch of lines inside the stroke, so that my plotter could draw them one by the other. Do you see a solution for this problem?
Great question. I don't have a lot of experience with html export, but maybe try Path > Object to Path, and then export. Edit > XML Editor can also be helpful when inspecting how Inkscape is creating and recording objects. The self made plotter sounds like a lot of fun! Best of luck!
hello sir, thank you for your video, but how can i set custom size ? i want set 2400x2400 and 72dpi, but i can't do that. looking forward to hearing from you soon. Regards funpiece630
How do you reduce the file size to SVG. When i export my logo to png to get under 15kb. I need upload it again to inkscape and remake it back to an SVG file. But then my SVG file is corrupt. So is there anyway to reduce the size of and SVG file down to a SVG file wihtout make it png first? The pages i upload my SVG files too have a max limit of 15kb. Is painful get it under that limit.
Also, how do you break the connection between the width \ height of the image and the dpi? I have my guitar chords logo in the footer of my site but it is too big. So I thought I would just cut the width & height in half to see how it looks but it also halved the dpi - from 96 to 45. It's all graphics, no photo, so maybe a dpi that low is fine, but I would like to keep the dpi and just resize the image. Which leads me to the question that I think I originally asked of you: How can I scale my entire design to whatever size I want? Do I select everything and then do Object > Group and then do a SHIFT+CTRL to resize? I'd prefer not to duplicate it and then resize that way. It would be great if I could do the resizing when I export.
You show doing the size change in the export tab and the dpi changes and then you change it back to I think 92 - mine is set to 96. But when I halve the image size using the width the dpi halves as well. Then when I put the dpi back at 96 the image resizes back to what it was. So somehow I would like to unlink the dpi with the image size. Is that in settings or preferences
@@JimKernix Good question. There are two fields for changing width and height, one under 'Export Area' and one under 'Image Size'. Changing the one W and H under 'Export Area' will not change the dpi, but changing W an H under 'Image Size' will.
Yes, I think you're right. Older versions of Inkscape used 92 dpi as a default, but versions from the last several years should be using 96 dpi as a default.
Good question. There is no option for exporting or saving in .ico format, so I would recommend exporting as .png at the dimensions you want (32x32? 64x64?) and then just bring that .png into Gimp, and save it as .ico.
I have seen several of your vids now but you have still not explained the Export as options, despite saying you were going to discuss this at the beginning of the vid.. I am looking for an alternative to Adobe and nearly all of my jobs need to sent to the printer as high res pdfs (PDFx etc)...is this one of the options instead of png. HYBRID147
I think you've run in a little misunderstanding: If you set GIMP as a default program to PNG files - any PNG file you have will open in GIMP, when double-clicked. To change that, right-click on any .png image you have, go to properties, and change default program for that file type from gimp to something else - most common, it's gallery/image viewer of some kind.
Wow you are an excellent teacher! I have been watching various Inkscape tutorials as I have just downloaded it, and you are by far the best and clearest for a beginner. Thanks!
how is logos by nick?
I noticed that while changing the dpi, it automatically changes the width and height according to dpi or we may say while changing the width and height it automatically changes the dpi. There is no way to maintain aspect ration.
5:25 yeah, that doesn't work. The dimensions automatically change when you change the dpi, it even shows in your video when you press enter. Inkscape sucks, they've never fixed this.
Very good... crisp clear and to the point. No jaw jacking about your moms 50-year-old sewing machine lol.
I sent some files to a small company and individual that does DTF Direct to print transfers for T-shirt graphics and what she told me was whatever Program I originally created the graphics on kept the DPI low so I tried to go online to do an online DPI change and it didn't work so I found out about inkscape and I'm going to you Use your Program tutorials to streamline the process so that when I resend her the Prints that I want on my T shirts It will have the corrected dpi. Thank you again for your video
awesome info! I'm just now getting deeper into the intricacies of Inkscape. Before, I only needed to convert shapes for a digital cutter. Now, I'm working with converting images for other uses and this has become another piece of my education. Thank you!!!
You saved my life .... on Mother’s Day! Thank you so much
Your whole series helped birth an entirely new project for me. Thanks for amazing free tutorials.
That's great to hear. Best of luck with your project!
explained all in one shot......thanks
Everytime i export something it looks mega blurry especially at 92 dpi. Im exporting a vector art logo btw
Sorry for all the comments, but the export page options has some potential. You could deliberately clip off partials of objects that are partly on and off the page.
Hi Jim, you're right. I use the export area as a means of clipping sometimes. Sometimes I'll choose export selection, and then draw a transparent rectangle around exactly what I want to export.
I want to export the file with the page size, but when I change the dpi, the size is change too, any tips?
wow, I'm so glad that I found your video, a very explanation in seconds, thank you.
Hi Tj! 1 notice - if you change the image size (f.e. to 512px) and THEN also change dpi size, the image size automaticly changes again (from 512px) .... and it's the same when you first change dpi and then manipulate with image size , then dpi changes itself into smaller/bigger .... :-/
Final video! youre awesome man thanks for the class !
You're welcome. I wish you the best on your future projects!
yo, smooth video! nice! the only thing i don't understand: how did you get your bevels on the penguin so smooth? when i try to make something 3d-looking, i always end up with a pixelated mess, because inkscape apparently (as told by the dev on twitter) is using only 256 "height" layers for its 3d bevels and such...
logosbynick and tjfree my favorites
sorry - totally newb question - I am not seeing how you got the 2 extra panels up on the right side as part of the inkscape scene. Having that lower left window (not darktable) showing file size and what the file actually looks like would be quite handy - how'd you do that?
Thanks, Very Helpful :) Exactly what I was looking for. I am printing to garment and had to design in a design program but was limited to what I can do, so Inkscape and your tutorials have been a blessing and great asset in moving forward in the business without having to pay to do it, when your on start up company shoestring budgets, lol. Saves me money and I'm learning another useful trick of the design trade that will help across multiple platforms🤓
You have helped me big time and you are really a great teacher, thank you buddy!
What if you wanted to print on A1 sheet size? What dpi is recommended?
dude, when you change the dpi it changes the width and height...this video lol you should pay attention to what you are doing before you make a video about it.
Really great tutorials. Thank you. It has made using Inkspace a joy and I will continue to support you.
Why are you using 96dpi for web pages when you should be using 72?
Also, if saving images for web pages it's best to have the images saved out in the sizes you need them. If you don't need transparency with the images use JPG files instead and use something like quality 8 (of 12). This will cut the file size down considerably. You can have one large image and scale it everywhere but if you scale it down from a large copy, you've got to calculate the width and height in your HTML where having separate images you can scale down using the art program instead.
I know images can't be saved out as JPG in Inkscape - save PNG first and use something else to convert them, many free online converters.
Awesome tutorial series - today I installed Inkscape for the first time and wonder why I didn't know of this software before!
hello tj, thanks ever so much for your tutorials - they are very helpful! question: how can i incorporate crop- and bleed marks and colour information in my export pdf for the printer?
That helps a lot! Would you use this method if you are putting an SVG image on a PDF or is there a different method? Thanks for doing these tutorials as you make the instructions very clear.
I haven't used Inkscape for PDFs very much. A better tool for creating PDFs is Scribus. But yes, for putting images in PDF files, I would export them as PNG images. I made a history book that was a PDF document that I sent to a printing co, and some of its images were made in Inkscape and exported as 600 DPI .PNG images.
@@TJFREE That helps. I have thought of putting a plan I made on a website and I heard that using a PDF for the plan maintains the scale of it.
i want a custom width and height for an export.. what to do ? please help
Hi and blessings. Question, If I export a 1920 x 1920 on 300 dpi, but scale it on Photoshop to 3500 x 3500 would it show blurry/pixelated when printed on a T-Shirt from an out source company? Thank you.
When exporting, I want the image size to be 18x18, but it only lets me do 18x19. How do I export 18x18? In other words, I'd like to export some of the white space. To clarify, I'm trying to export the star shape but it's slightly wider than it is long and I'd like to export some white space to even its height/width since this dimension is strict.
The easiest way is to resize the actual artwork to be 18x18 on the canvas then select it, and make sure the 'selections' tab is clicked in the export settings.
Hi, i need help.
In the document settings, i chosed displayed unit as pixels and then custom size of 9200×9200.
After designing, i tried exporting as png. While the the page is still 9200×9200 px, the image size (which is within that page) showed 23049×22133 px with 300DPI. Why is this so?
I cant upload the design to my tshirt store because it says file is too big. Anyone here facing the same problem?
this is a very useful information, i ve a question that how can we reduce a file size of a picture without loosing its quality??
If someone wants a logo in vector format do you just save as then give them the save as file? If so how do you stop them from modifying your logo accidentally ??
My image exported half face. It is a bust with head. Top menu Pixels reads 1500.366x 2217.431 On Document properties Image size W 1500px h 2121px DPI 181.43. But when it is exported, only half face is shown. What is going on ? My Inkscape version is 1.3. Please tackle this. My sincere thanks to all.
Great Inkscape tutorials! I was wondering which desktop settings you were using in this video. Looks like Ubuntu with Gnome but with a special theme..? And how have you managed to arrange the windows that they are not overlapping when you open up another one?
Thank you! I'm using the Solus OS linux distro, but I'm using the i3 window manager on top of it. Its a tiling window manager, thats what gives it a different look and feel.
@@TJFREE Interesting! That's something I need. However, I will stay with my working copy of Ubuntu for the moment.
Thank you for the video, really helpful!
You're welcome!
I made a graphic for a friend to use as a profile picture for Xbox and discord, though it doesn't fit in the dimensions for the profile picture. I've been making it smaller and exporting it to my phones gallery and the only thing that happens is it just gets more pixilated and still doesn't fit the size.
Thanks - I just saw this video and am watching it now. My first question is when you first exported you had an additional pane to the right of the Export As PNG window which showed the files in the destination - desktop for you. And you clicked on the image to get a preview. How do you get that window, or whatever you call it, open?
Thank you so much, I've worked through your course of tutorials and they have really helped.
How to transfer file from inkspace to eazycad2
good job , you have done very good job covering pretty much all famous free softwares ,any beginner could become nearly pro watching these series thank you very much , i ask this time as always😊 if you could explain the jessyink extension for making slide show (i find it alternative to focusky) and the xia (is it better than jessy) and also i wanna know which distro you have installed on i3 envirment and if it was originally with the distro (li manjaro i3) or you configure it your self , thank you for everything you do on this channel
The distro I am using is SolusOS. It did not come with i3, but was available in the package manager using eopkg, so the install and config was fairly simple.
TJ FREE thanks i am using kde and wanna switch to i3 , what about the inkscape extension would you make explnation in the future ,thanks again
Hello,
first of all I must say, that your videos are very very good!!!
I looked them all, but nevertheless I still have one problem. For my selfmade special kind of plotter I need an html file. So I
created the stroke of a square with the side length of 50 px, transformed it to a path and saved it to sq.html. And this was the result as I expected:
IN;FS1;VS1;SP1;PU0,50;PD50,50,50,0,0,0,0,50;SP0;PU0,0;IN;
So far so good. But if I do the same thing with a filled square, the result is exactly the same and the fill is completely ignored.
I expected inkscape to create a bunch of lines inside the stroke, so that my plotter could draw them one by the other.
Do you see a solution for this problem?
Great question. I don't have a lot of experience with html export, but maybe try Path > Object to Path, and then export. Edit > XML Editor can also be helpful when inspecting how Inkscape is creating and recording objects. The self made plotter sounds like a lot of fun! Best of luck!
hello sir, thank you for your video, but how can i set custom size ? i want set 2400x2400 and 72dpi, but i can't do that. looking forward to hearing from you soon. Regards funpiece630
How do you reduce the file size to SVG. When i export my logo to png to get under 15kb. I need upload it again to inkscape and remake it back to an SVG file. But then my SVG file is corrupt. So is there anyway to reduce the size of and SVG file down to a SVG file wihtout make it png first? The pages i upload my SVG files too have a max limit of 15kb. Is painful get it under that limit.
Also, how do you break the connection between the width \ height of the image and the dpi? I have my guitar chords logo in the footer of my site but it is too big. So I thought I would just cut the width & height in half to see how it looks but it also halved the dpi - from 96 to 45. It's all graphics, no photo, so maybe a dpi that low is fine, but I would like to keep the dpi and just resize the image.
Which leads me to the question that I think I originally asked of you: How can I scale my entire design to whatever size I want? Do I select everything and then do Object > Group and then do a SHIFT+CTRL to resize? I'd prefer not to duplicate it and then resize that way. It would be great if I could do the resizing when I export.
You show doing the size change in the export tab and the dpi changes and then you change it back to I think 92 - mine is set to 96. But when I halve the image size using the width the dpi halves as well. Then when I put the dpi back at 96 the image resizes back to what it was. So somehow I would like to unlink the dpi with the image size. Is that in settings or preferences
@@JimKernix Good question. There are two fields for changing width and height, one under 'Export Area' and one under 'Image Size'. Changing the one W and H under 'Export Area' will not change the dpi, but changing W an H under 'Image Size' will.
@@TJFREE Got it - I guess I didn't notice you changing it under Export area. I'll give that a try - thanks!
You do private tutorial lessons?
Hey! @tjfee How to export jpeg file format instead of png.
You would have to open it in the painting app that comes with your system then save as a jpeg. That's how I was able to do it.
I'm looking through these videos trying to verify what the current default dpi is. I changed it and forgot! I think it's 96?
Yes, I think you're right. Older versions of Inkscape used 92 dpi as a default, but versions from the last several years should be using 96 dpi as a default.
@@TJFREE I appreciate the response, thanks! Great content by the way.
Thank you TJ!
How about exporting .ico file to make an icon? Is there an option?
Thanks a lot
Good question. There is no option for exporting or saving in .ico format, so I would recommend exporting as .png at the dimensions you want (32x32? 64x64?) and then just bring that .png into Gimp, and save it as .ico.
@@TJFREE thank you so much. This is very essential.
@@TJFREE thank you so much. This is very essential.
Great video! I love the examples!
looking for good ways to export CMYK files from inkscape, can anyone help?
yeah but can u get it down to 15kb
Bro what 4 x 4 and why this number change for anything
I have seen several of your vids now but you have still not explained the Export as options, despite saying you were going to discuss this at the beginning of the vid.. I am looking for an alternative to Adobe and nearly all of my jobs need to sent to the printer as high res pdfs (PDFx etc)...is this one of the options instead of png.
HYBRID147
I love your tutorials. Can you teach me how to convert a png file to an svg cuttable file that my laser cutter can read? Thanks.
Thanks Patricia. I'm planning to do some videos like that soon. My tutorial on 'Trace Bitmap' may help for the time being.
TJ FREE thanks so much. Looking forward to your next videos
Thank you very much, I appreciate this.
You are a goddamn life saver!
it comes out blank :((
thanks
Everytime I try and export as a PNG it automatically saves as a GIMP file... -_-
Any ideas why?
I think you've run in a little misunderstanding:
If you set GIMP as a default program to PNG files - any PNG file you have will open in GIMP, when double-clicked.
To change that, right-click on any .png image you have, go to properties, and change default program for that file type from gimp to something else - most common, it's gallery/image viewer of some kind.
@@zeraun3514 Thanks!
7:35 - “Thas what she said, yo!”
You say no one will zoom in on the image in a web page. I'm that guy.
good
Print never needs to be more than 300DPI
bom
Thank you! Good video, easy to understand, especially the confusing exporting options :)
Thank you for this👍