The inkscape tutorials weblog. Tutorial: Tracing. Home One of the features in Inkscape is a tool for tracing a bitmap image into a <path> element for your SVG drawing.
These short notes should help you become acquainted with how it works. Currently Inkscape employs the Potrace bitmap tracing engine (potrace.sourceforge.net) by Peter Selinger. Drawing 3D objects in Inkscape. With this Inkscape tutorial you will learn to draw a 3D looking snowman, but ultimately you will get a grasp of creating shadows and reflections the right way.
Inkscape is a relatively young yet fast evolving generic vector graphics editor in the lines of Adobe Illustrator and Corel DRAW. The application can be run on Linux, Windows and Mac and it's freely distributable along with source code. Its main file format is SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, a W3C standard recommended for publishing vector graphics on the Web). I'm going to show you how to use this great application to create 3D looking images and I'll use my snowman postcard as an example. For a start let's create very basic shapes and play with them. Tutorial List « the inkscape tutorials weblog.