I am referring to Inkscape Beginner Tutorial Reflecive Text Effect, by logosbynick.com. On page 6 he writes "...we’ll use the perspective live path effect to make the bottom half of the text take the shape of our rectangle." I am there but I cannot do that because there is no button to activate. I am looking at PATH EFFECTS: TYPE PERSPECTIVE but can't go further. What element seems to be missing? My little shape is poised in anticipation... Inkscape v. 92 Windows 10 The attachment shows where I am stuck.
Have done that many times. The SHIFT-CTRL-7 doesn't do anything. Only one selection is allowed; so I did a lone selection on the shape, and a selection on the text. Nothing works. Are some steps missisng?
You mean Nick has a non-video tutorial somewhere? I'd be interested to see it.
I've not used the Perspective LPE, but let's see what I can figure out....
Ok, I think I have something that works. (If you wanted to, you could contact Nick and tell him where you're confused. Maybe he would want to improve the tutorial?)
Select the text
Path menu > Path Effects > Perspective/Envelope
Switch to the Node tool. Now you will see some very faint blue lines around the bounding box. They are very hard to see. At the end of each blue line is a diamond shaped handle. You can either drag those handles manually, and snap them to the corners of the perspective path. Or you can use the 4 sets of X/Y coordinates in the LPE dialog, to position the handles that way.
Hhmm, although re-reading your message.... What I suggested will make the whole text take the shape of the box. If you want only part of the text to match the box....well I can't quite imagine what that woud look like....
Anyway, maybe that gives you enough to move on?
By the way, the fact Nick thinks any LPE is a beginner tool is a bit hard to understand. In my opinion, a beginner should not be trying this.
Thanks for this well documented comment. I did mail him a question about the problem but he has not responded. This written tutorial was written in haste; it is incomplete in the number of steps necessary to achieve the intended effect and should not be referred to as a tutorial' What IS a tutorial is the video; unfortunately, it is narrated so fast that I can't follow. Why don't you take a look at the one above to see what I want to be able to achieve?
Once I selected the node tool I detected the thin lines and tiny diamonds. But, I had already succeeded in placing those diamonds at the corners of the shape by using the node tool. Also, the 4 sets of coordinates, I don't know what to do with them, there is no instruction on anything. You see, the idea with reflective perspective text is for only the bottom half of the text to angle out to form a perspective, not the entire text. (I have no problem making a perspective of a whole word)
His videos have the same problem, after the first few of them.
Ooohhh, I see! It's supposed to look like the text is folded. I'd have to play around with it, to figure out how he did it. But as TD suggests, maybe the video will give more details?
If you still can't make it work, I'll be glad to see what I can come up with, and share it with you.
As a workaround, seems like it'd be easier to dup the text and fold the half you want, then mclip it, clip the original, and align them. If it's something you need now.
I can't imagine how to do it with only the orig. If you can, pls post your end result.
I'll have to try the video again; it is narrated at such fast clip that I can't follow. I looked for a way to do the BACK move but there isn't one, you have rto start all over again. I haven't seen a way to slow it down either but will go back and see. Thanks for your answers and suggestions.
Have come upon another solution, not using the rectangle but drawing my own perspective lines. I duplicate the word and flip it vertically. I do an Object to Path. Now I enclose the word in my drawn perspective shape. I fill the shape with a gradient to simulate reflection. I select text then shape. Finally I go to Extensions > Modify Path > Perspective. I find this to be a satisfying way to achieve the desired result! A note of caution: I thought that one could use either Clone or Duplicate; not so. Clone kept telling me that my first selection (or my second selection) was not a path. No matter how many times I re-did Object-to-Path I kept getting that notification.
You don't have to subscribe or join YouTube to see the video. I don't participate in social media either. (I've never joined facebook or twitter or any of that....umm, "stuff") But you can still watch the video. I just opened it, and it plays. And I have access to the settings.
(Hahaa, the audio sounds pretty weird at slower speed!)
I noticed it's putting some kind of popup window with some kind of offer to sign up for something. But you can just click "No Thanks" and get rid of it.
Edit
Oops, TD posted while I was typing and trying the video.
Beyond the Basics reflective perspective text
Inkscape.org
I am referring to Inkscape Beginner Tutorial Reflecive Text Effect, by logosbynick.com. On page 6 he writes "...we’ll use the perspective live path effect to make the bottom half of the text take the shape of our rectangle." I am there but I cannot do that because there is no button to activate. I am looking at PATH EFFECTS: TYPE PERSPECTIVE but can't go further. What element seems to be missing? My little shape is poised in anticipation...
Inkscape v. 92
Windows 10
The attachment shows where I am stuck.
I'd try applying Path>Union to the text to make it a single path, then use the perspective live effect.
TD
Have done that many times. The SHIFT-CTRL-7 doesn't do anything. Only one selection is allowed; so I did a lone selection on the shape, and a selection on the text. Nothing works. Are some steps missisng?
Welcome to the forum!
You mean Nick has a non-video tutorial somewhere? I'd be interested to see it.
I've not used the Perspective LPE, but let's see what I can figure out....
Ok, I think I have something that works. (If you wanted to, you could contact Nick and tell him where you're confused. Maybe he would want to improve the tutorial?)
Switch to the Node tool. Now you will see some very faint blue lines around the bounding box. They are very hard to see. At the end of each blue line is a diamond shaped handle. You can either drag those handles manually, and snap them to the corners of the perspective path. Or you can use the 4 sets of X/Y coordinates in the LPE dialog, to position the handles that way.
Hhmm, although re-reading your message.... What I suggested will make the whole text take the shape of the box. If you want only part of the text to match the box....well I can't quite imagine what that woud look like....
Anyway, maybe that gives you enough to move on?
By the way, the fact Nick thinks any LPE is a beginner tool is a bit hard to understand. In my opinion, a beginner should not be trying this.
Reflect is an interesting choice of description, considering the image is not duplicated, but whatever...
There's a video on that page that has much more info than the written descriptions.
TD
Yes, Nick Saporito has a written tutoral on the subject: https://logosbynick.com/inkscape-beginner-tutorial-reflective-text-effect/
Thanks for this well documented comment. I did mail him a question about the problem but he has not responded. This written tutorial was written in haste; it is incomplete in the number of steps necessary to achieve the intended effect and should not be referred to as a tutorial' What IS a tutorial is the video; unfortunately, it is narrated so fast that I can't follow. Why don't you take a look at the one above to see what I want to be able to achieve?
Once I selected the node tool I detected the thin lines and tiny diamonds. But, I had already succeeded in placing those diamonds at the corners of the shape by using the node tool. Also, the 4 sets of coordinates, I don't know what to do with them, there is no instruction on anything. You see, the idea with reflective perspective text is for only the bottom half of the text to angle out to form a perspective, not the entire text. (I have no problem making a perspective of a whole word)
His videos have the same problem, after the first few of them.
Ooohhh, I see! It's supposed to look like the text is folded. I'd have to play around with it, to figure out how he did it. But as TD suggests, maybe the video will give more details?
If you still can't make it work, I'll be glad to see what I can come up with, and share it with you.
You can watch Nick's videos on youtube and slow them down in the speed settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6cGrIgpt3k
TD
Havent seem the vid.
As a workaround, seems like it'd be easier to dup the text and fold the half you want, then mclip it, clip the original, and align them. If it's something you need now.
I can't imagine how to do it with only the orig. If you can, pls post your end result.
All the needed info is in the video.
I'll have to try the video again; it is narrated at such fast clip that I can't follow. I looked for a way to do the BACK move but there isn't one, you have rto start all over again. I haven't seen a way to slow it down either but will go back and see. Thanks for your answers and suggestions.
Have come upon another solution, not using the rectangle but drawing my own perspective lines. I duplicate the word and flip it vertically. I do an Object to Path. Now I enclose the word in my drawn perspective shape. I fill the shape with a gradient to simulate reflection. I select text then shape. Finally I go to Extensions > Modify Path > Perspective. I find this to be a satisfying way to achieve the desired result! A note of caution: I thought that one could use either Clone or Duplicate; not so. Clone kept telling me that my first selection (or my second selection) was not a path. No matter how many times I re-did Object-to-Path I kept getting that notification.
You can watch Nick's video on youtube and slow it down in the speed settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6cGrIgpt3k
TD
Yes Tyler but, I do not subscribe to social media. Thanks.
It may come as a surprise, but forums like these are social media - you need to be a register to post and engage with other people.
Nick's videos are hosted by Vimeo, another video hosting site like YouTube. The video on Nick's page also has speed control.
Have a nice day.
TD
You don't have to subscribe or join YouTube to see the video. I don't participate in social media either. (I've never joined facebook or twitter or any of that....umm, "stuff") But you can still watch the video. I just opened it, and it plays. And I have access to the settings.
(Hahaa, the audio sounds pretty weird at slower speed!)
I noticed it's putting some kind of popup window with some kind of offer to sign up for something. But you can just click "No Thanks" and get rid of it.
Edit
Oops, TD posted while I was typing and trying the video.