lkakdu.blogg.se - Colorizing with inkscape tutorial

Applying the same gradient to the base shape (the text) is not enough, the highlights and shadows will stand out:.

Increase the complexity of the object (now the text have shadows and highlights) and the job become more complex:.

If wanted, decrease the height and/or skew it:.

Fill the reflection with a gradient starting from the object color with full opacity to the same color with full transparency and you are done:.

Duplicate ( Edit > Duplicate) your object, flip it vertically ( Object > Flip Vertical) and move it to the bottom, this will be the reflection:.

The simplest case of a single shape in one single color, like this text, is very easy:.

You can continue and read it (is still useful for some simple cases) or skip to the GIMP section. This update made part of this article somewhat obsolete, but I left it included for historical reference. This is so awesome and can work with any complex image that I made a streamlined diagram:

Adjust the transparency more if needed:.And you get beautiful progressive transparency:.Select both the rectangle and the object under it and apply the gradient rectangle as a mask ( Object > Mask > Set):.Fill the rectangle with a vertical gradient going from solid black to solit white:.Take your image and make a duplicate, place the duplicate on bottom:.Update: I was wrong, it is possible to do much better with vectors, read on: The graphics we will create will look like this:Ī vector application in not as powerful for this job as a raster editor, but it allow a lot of things to be made. Of course, it can be also made with 3D graphics, but this is out of the scope of this tutorial. Depending of your base image, style of work and target, it can be done in vectors (Inkscape) or raster (GIMP).

This is a trick abused often: take an image and create its reflection on a surface to obtain a kind of perspective effect. Reflecting images on surfaces with Inkscape and GIMP Article updated: Since I wrote this article I learned a very neat trick about I was not aware, so the article is updated to include it, it is about applying a mask to get the partial transparency for reflection in Inkscape.