Inkscape

Several new modes in the Tweak tool - Move, Move In/Out, Move Jitter, Scale, Rotate, and Duplicate/Delete - make it possible to easily and naturally manipulate any number of separate objects, such as a tiling of clones. With a few soft brush strokes, you can turn a regular tiling into a freeform cloud, "power field," or even a complete drawing as in this example.

В Inkscape появилась возможность рисовать кривые Спиро (они же спирали Корню), перенесенные в мир дизайна Рафом Левьеном. Несмотря на то, что история Спиро в больших программах началась со свободного редактора шрифтов FontForge, в Inkscape достаточно много уникальных функций, что и продемонстрировано Энди Фитцсаймоном. Кривые Спиро реализованы в виде динамического контурного эффекта, который может быть как применен к уже существующей кривой Безье, так и нарисован вместе с кривой Карандашом или Пером.

Pinkitude by QuicheLoraine was the Grandprize Winner of the Pinkitude for Life contest that was a joint effort between MGM, Susan G. Komen for the cure foundation, & deviantART to promote early detection as the key to breast cancer prevention among young women and teens. A few of the features used were gradients with transparencies, filters, and patterns. As a community, we're proud of QuicheLoraine and the use of inkscape for another, more serious, community effort relating to women's health and the early detection of one of the most prevalent health risks to women.

Inkscape has seen some enhancements over the past few releases which have been able to better equip artists with the tools necessary to create photorealistic vector work. This screenshot by maddrum is of his most dedicated and accurate attempt at photorealism, and he feels that this is probably his limit (we'll see about that). He used fairly conventional vector drawing methods for most of the work using the Bézier & node tools primarily. Filters were used quite liberally to achieve the subtle shading and coloring. The amazing job on her hair was drawn with the calligraphy tool using a graphics tablet.

One of the fundamental components in most design is typography. Inkscape has recently added base support for creating SVG Fonts in 0.47. This screenshot shows a font by QuicheLoraine that is being designed inside Inkscape. As of this time she plans to release it as a free font when it is completed.