You can change the colour with the colour sliders. Under the fill tab, select the solid rectangle, which should now make the circle filled in with solid black. Now for the next step, create a smaller circle and then right click its outline (on Mac, use apple click). If you have a Pac-Man shape or an arc, simply click the 'make whole' button in the upper toolbar.Ĭhanging object fill colours using HSV sliders Now you should have a nice circle, with a solid black outline that is completely closed. Note that the circle tool is really an ellipse and elliptic arc tool, for which we are using a special case of the ellipse, i.e. The Ctrl key maintains an integer aspect ratio for the shape. Firstly select the circle icon from the left hand bar, then whilst holding down the Ctrl key (it's Ctrl for Apple machines as well, not the Apple key) drag out a circle. Intermediate users may wish to skip this sectionįirstly we will draw a very simple smiley face, to do so we will use the circle tool, the stroke and fill toolbox as well as the alignment toolbox.įirst we have a blank page upon which we shall emblazon our smiley face. This section covers basic object manipulation. app bundles are available, and all Inkscape versions require apple's X11.app to be installed. For Mac and Windows, you will have to manually download the software and install it instructions are available from the Inkscape website.

For Linux systems, it is most likely that it will be in a list of available packages from your package manager (e.g. Obtaining Inkscape and supported platforms Īs Inkscape is open-source software, it is maintained for a variety of platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Windows. This should become clear as one becomes more familiar with the relative difficulty of creating certain images under Inkscape. Images such as photographs and other high-information sources should not be considered. Vector graphics are the primary choice of image format for diagrams on Wikipedia, as they have a small file size and can be resized without any loss of quality. For a more thorough analysis of when to use vector graphics, see Wikipedia:Image use policy.

Tutorials for using inkscape software