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Embedding and extracting images

Embedding and extracting images - Inkscape Tutorial

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Embedding and extracting images

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- [Instructor] Most of the work you'll do in Inkscape will involve vector objects but you can also include pixel based images too. In this movie, we'll see how to import images, keep them as links to an external file or actually embed them inside the Inkscape file. And we'll also see how to relink different versions of an image and extract images. I'll start with an empty document and I'll import a bitmap image by choosing file, import or use the keyboard shortcut control + I. And in the links folder inside the exercise files, let's select this file, Eiffel tower and click open. And we get a dialogue where we can decide whether to embed this image in the file or to link to it. The benefits of embedding are the, I don't have to worry about the external file becoming unavailable to me, either because it got renamed or moved or deleted. And I have everything that I need for my artwork in just one file. The downside of embedding…

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