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Inkscape Graphic Design Tutorial: How to Make Abstract Backgrounds with Stitch Sub-Paths LPE Tool

Inkscape 1.2 step-by-step beginner, intermediate tutorial showing how to create abtract backgrounds using the Live Path Effects, Stitch Sub-paths tool. Follow along this free course as I show you how to make dynamic designs for product backgrounds, web design, mobile apps and more using a simple technique with a complicated name.
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  • @HMaxTube11
    @HMaxTube112 жыл бұрын

    Endless design possibilities. Rabbit hole or not, I wouldn’t have figured these techniques out ever. Super vid.🌟👏👍🎉

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I never could figure out my original idea. Ha.

  • @RUSTICW0LF
    @RUSTICW0LF2 жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial Rick! It remined me of the 'pin and string' pictures my father use to make back in the 70s. 👍🐺👍

  • @staceyintexas304
    @staceyintexas3042 жыл бұрын

    So helpful! I'm learning lots from you and applying your lessons to making files for laser cutting. Can't wait to try this one.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Have fun with the laser cutting projects! These are pretty fun to do.

  • @WeQuiltStudio
    @WeQuiltStudio2 жыл бұрын

    Ty Rick! Now you got me thinking about making a bunch of these and arranging them into a Seamless pattern.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Seemless pattern with these would be really cool.

  • @mrmshifan
    @mrmshifan Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Easy to understand. Thank you 👍👍👍

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @trinitri9345
    @trinitri9345 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, this tutorial led me to something else I can do with ease!!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice! Thank you!!

  • @O-ne2my
    @O-ne2my4 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much! This is worth watching and keep growing the channel!! Greetings from Serbia!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much! I'll keep at it!

  • @editmarton5280
    @editmarton5280 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! this is amazing :) I was just playing, and I started not with straight lines, but with curved one (Bezier pen / create spiro path), it looks like 3D object!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice! Thanks so much, and that sounds cool. Will have to try it out!

  • @Granaldigirl
    @Granaldigirl2 жыл бұрын

    This is great! Thanks!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @barbarafidler910
    @barbarafidler910 Жыл бұрын

    thanks for sharing, the fact I got that to work :) was pretty awesome tool :)

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!

  • @user-pescatore99
    @user-pescatore9910 ай бұрын

    Afterr the cross blur i applied the clean edges filter ( i think that i s the name, i use Inkscape in another language). Just a bit of this filter in some versions of your coweb and it was improved.

  • @user-pescatore99

    @user-pescatore99

    10 ай бұрын

    *improved for my sense of design

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    10 ай бұрын

    Very cool. I'll try that too!

  • @donkeyschat5052
    @donkeyschat50522 жыл бұрын

    Great! Thasnks.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @patrickmclaughlin6013
    @patrickmclaughlin60132 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @arale1402
    @arale14022 жыл бұрын

    I too had to make these by hand with a ruler and pencil in art class at high school . It was fun yet also tedious 😂. This is so cool! Thanks for sharing this with us, Richard!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Wasn't it fun using rulers and pencils? I love the computer, of course, but there was something very tangible that felt good working on paper.

  • @arale1402

    @arale1402

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign 💯! Because of this tangibility I started sketching again. I think we all need a balance between the digital and the "real" (analogue?) world to keep us sane and compassionate. Have a splendid week, Richard.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true, and you too!!

  • @jg7525
    @jg75252 жыл бұрын

    Hey @IronEcho Design can you do a lofi album cover tutorial for us plz?

  • @mira987
    @mira9872 жыл бұрын

    Rick, what a nice tutorial again! 👍👍👍 But we have soon Autumn🍂🍁🕸☔ Let's get prepared und do some nice Fall design.... A misty rainy day and nice autumn leaves... Maybe water drops effect on a windowpane...

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!! I love rainy artwork. Rain, not so much, misty rain views are beautiful. I'll start playing around with some ideas. Thanks!

  • @Bea-LTC
    @Bea-LTC Жыл бұрын

    Hi Nick, it's just fantastic that you bring your design training here to Inskape and explain these difficult deposit effects so well. I can't speak English very well, so I'm also learning that on the side with the help of google. I'll watch many more of your videos, I've learned the basics in German. If I have a question, can I ask it here? I am a new fan of yours and subscribed to your channel. Greetings from the German Baltic Sea coast, the beautiful Darß with its beautiful beaches.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Vielen Dank! Thanks so much and any questions that come up, I'm happy to see if I can answer.

  • @vishmikaperera1613
    @vishmikaperera16132 жыл бұрын

    Have been waiting for a tutorial like this, Thank You so much. Hey, I have a question about Mandalas. It's about how to streamline mandala creation workflow with the way you showed to set up the file but with multiple pages. Do you have any idea to do that? The layers and guides get messy.

  • @zakaryaa7484
    @zakaryaa74842 жыл бұрын

    Interesting

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. I like this method.

  • @augustusomega4708
    @augustusomega4708 Жыл бұрын

    I've got one for you! Imagine a black ink brush stroke swirl thick and elegant with pointed ends. Now take various sized stars arranged within the stroke line of that brush stroke so it looks like the stars make up the brush stroke instead of the black ink. I tried to make this with the spray can but in the end spent hours arranging and re-sizing stars. Just wondering if theres a quick mechanical way to do it, but the arrangement is important, the stars cant be haphazardly overlapping each other.

  • @noel7083
    @noel70832 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a tutorial on how to make animation with Inkscape?

  • @mrmshifan
    @mrmshifan Жыл бұрын

    If InkScape had features to edit raster images, it would be massive. Gimp is very hard to use.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    I think about this a lot. Much of what I design personally, I end up finishing in Photoshop. I understand Inkscape is a vector program, but if there was a companion program like the way Illustrator and Photoshop go together- that would indeed be massive.

  • @willmfrank

    @willmfrank

    Жыл бұрын

    And now, somewhere out there in cyberspace, some open-source developers are working on something that they're gonna call "GIMP-Scape." ...We can hope...

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    That would be amazing. Seriously a game changer.

  • @angrybadger6761
    @angrybadger6761 Жыл бұрын

    I selected Stich Sub and a bar appears in the horizontal that allows you to bend the lines en-masse ..... only have the normal select tool in operation .... Spiro spline has appeared at the top of the PE window .... can send screen shot and svg if required. Next trick is to get them all emerging and entering the same point but a bit busy at the moment. ....... Edit!!! Bezier pen was set in Spiro spline mode, I was wondering why I could not give it a prefixed gradient before applying the manipulation. Stroke - colour - combine - PE = Bingo!

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice!! I've been revisiting this video and finally got the flight pattern bend. Love experimenting.

  • @therealgeesehoward
    @therealgeesehoward2 жыл бұрын

    hello i have a very simple question, every time i select 1 path effect and i use it works, but then after I just finish the line I draw, the path effect i selected disappear from the list i use, (always appear BSpline, i chose Taper Stroke ) then after i draw 1 line, the path effect disappear and bspline stays only, then after and i have select the path options again, to select again! the path effect for every single line i draw, question, how i save the path effect in the list that appear i use for every single time i open Inkscape, without re-select every time i draw 1 line, save for every use. thanks, and have good day👺

  • @flakybooger2464
    @flakybooger24642 жыл бұрын

    are you able to get one image to evolve into another....for example, like a pokemon evolving to its next form.... Charmander into Charmeleon into Charizard

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    That would be awesome. I was trying to do an evolving Spiderman design. It's hard!

  • @flakybooger2464

    @flakybooger2464

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign I made multiple copies edited each, and merged them into a gif, just takes long time

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nice work. That is next level. Good stuff.

  • @Aitimoney
    @Aitimoney2 жыл бұрын

    Do you have a course? Not sure if I have asked you before, I would definitely be interested or if we could create something for your videos.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much. I don't have a course, but I'm working on an exercise book. Not fitness, but practice excersises to work on Inkscape tools and techniques. I envision it to be a set of 30 or 40 mini projects that would take the reader step-by step, learning the method along the way. Ultimately I would have all 30-40 projects tutorials for free on the channel, and the book would be a supplement if people wanted a hard copy reference material. Does this idea have any potential? Any projects/ tools/ techniques you would want to see included? Thanks for any insight or thoughts!

  • @Aitimoney

    @Aitimoney

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign yes it has great potential. Let me think on the question you asked at end to put things on paper. Your videos are to the point and not to long. Maybe a 10 set step (beginner, intermediate, advanced) so person could master, kinda of like writing your spelling words in the old days, to see the word in your mind. Will get the other stuff down.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's so smart. The exercises could progressively get more complex. Like spelling books or piano exercises from back in the day. Thanks.

  • @Aitimoney

    @Aitimoney

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign will put down some more thoughts this weekend. Thank you for taking time and responding. Makes me feel like someone is listening. Have a Grand Weekend.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, you too!

  • @ShomeAvi
    @ShomeAvi2 жыл бұрын

    Can you tell me why I no longer have the same color wheel with a triangle instead I have a weird quadrilateral color wheel which is so difficult to control and understand. Is there a work around for this?

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you in Inkscape 1.2? If so, on the Fill and Stroke menu, you'll see a rectangle selection box near the top right. Click on that and change the drop down choice to HSL. Then you can change from the color sliders by selecting the Color Wheel choice. Hope this helps!

  • @ShomeAvi

    @ShomeAvi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign Thank you so much for replying and helping me out. I thought I had to relearn and come to terms with the new changes. Thanks very much. I see it is there like you said. Do you think the free scrolling of the page with two fingers on trackpad is also there?.. because I was able to scroll in only up down direction. I had to hold the shift key for side ways scrolling. Is there a work around for that too? I hope you have noticed that change too.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good point. I haven't tried Inkscape with a trackpad. Hopefully there is a setting that can be adjusted to bring the feature back.

  • @ShomeAvi

    @ShomeAvi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign I never used a mouse. Trackpad used to scroll freely in all directions with 2 fingers. It was very fun, easy and everything felt under control. Alas! Now it is gone..I couldn't find any settings. 😄I am not getting any solution of this anywhere not even in forum. Guess everyone uses mouse.

  • @ShomeAvi

    @ShomeAvi

    2 жыл бұрын

    Anyways love your videos. Keep making more

  • @claudenobles779
    @claudenobles7792 жыл бұрын

    This is not pertaining to this lesson, my apologies. My question, and many others have this issue. How to print an image, bigger than the paper available in your printer. How do you print, hypothetically, a 20" x 20" created in inkscape, then have your printer "tile" and print it. ?????? If it's not presently a feature it should be in the next upgrade. Your other tutorials have been excellent.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    What a great question!! I'm not sure all printers have a "tile" setting for splitting up large scale projects automatically into pages that would fit together to form the whole image. If anyone knows of one that does, please comment. However, the latest version of Inkscape now allows for Multi-Page designs. I haven't played around with it yet, but theoretically you could use this Multi-Page feature to choose how your design is split up, and then export all the pages for printing out on your printer with the specified paper size.

  • @claudenobles779

    @claudenobles779

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign Thanks for your prompt response. I am new to inkscape but will look for the multi-page feature. Thanks for the clue. We'll see who can figure it out first....ready, set go😁

  • @craigsomerton2359

    @craigsomerton2359

    2 жыл бұрын

    Either "Save As.." or "Export" the actual size image as a .PDF format. Open it in a PDF viewer and when you go to Print, there should be an option to tile the image across multiple pages.

  • @IronEchoDesign

    @IronEchoDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Craig.

  • @claudenobles779

    @claudenobles779

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IronEchoDesign will try that now and report back. Thanks I.E.D. and Craig 💪

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