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Inkscape — Open Source Vector Graphics Editor

When I started sell­ing vec­tor images I started out with Inkscape. Inkscape is easy to learn to use and best of all it’s free. A new ver­sion of the soft­ware will be released soon, but I’ve always used the nightly builds on Win­dows or com­piled the lat­est ver­sion on Ubuntu. You can find the latest […]

Inkscape resources

I’ve worked with both Pho­to­shop and Gimp for many years, but Inkscape and vec­tor graph­ics are new to me. I was look­ing for some tuto­ri­als on Inscape today and found these:

Pixel2Life’s Inkscape tuto­ri­als
hea­thenxyt tuto­ri­als on YouTube
a Quick Guide to Inkscape by ~microUgly on deviantART

This should be enough to get us started.

Free photos and fonts

I didn’t have any good pic­tures of roses myself so I used a really nice rose from the Freefoto.com web­site. The pic­tures at Freefoto.com are free for pri­vate non-commercial use, but remem­ber to read the rules before you down­load and use any of them. Another good resource for free stock pho­tos is stock.xchng. You need […]

Wysiwyg editors

It’s eas­ier to cre­ate a tem­plate if you have an xhtml and style sheet wysi­wyg edi­tor. I use Front­Page 2003 which isn’t the best tool for cre­at­ing a tem­plate, but that is what I’m stuck with from school. Front­Page doesn’t have any spe­cific xhtml fea­tures, but it does sup­port xhtml. You have to makes sure […]