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Adding fills to your objects - Inkscape Tutorial
From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Adding fills to your objects
- [Narrator] Most of the paths you create in Inkscape will end up filled with a black color, a gradient or a pattern in them. So let's take a look at how to fill paths. I'll start here with an empty document and I'll just draw a rectangle by clicking and dragging with the rectangle tool and notice it comes in with the default fill color. This came from my Inkscape preferences and you can see the default fill and stroke values up in the tool controls. If I double click on the fill, it opens up preferences. And here's where I can set the default fill. As I've mentioned in other movies, here I can choose the last used style or a consistent style for all of the new rectangles that I draw and I can define that style by copying it from a selected object. To change the fill color of a selected object, I can click on a swatch at the bottom on the screen and I can pick different sets of swatches and apply them from this menu on the…
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Adding fills to your objects3m 8s
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Understanding fill rules3m 4s
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Adding strokes to your objects5m 13s
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Working with linear gradients3m 40s
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Working with radial gradients3m 34s
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Working with mesh gradients5m 55s
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Working with patterns4m 6s
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Working with swatches3m 18s
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Working with stroke styles3m 29s
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Working with dashed and dotted strokes2m 25s
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Using the Dropper tool to sample and apply colors2m 49s
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Creating blurs2m 16s
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