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Using the Tweak tool

Using the Tweak tool - Inkscape Tutorial

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Using the Tweak tool

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- [Instructor] Of all the ways Inkscape gives you to transform objects, the tweak tool might be the most interesting. It offers more than a dozen different modes for moving, reshaping and recoloring artwork and it can be the perfect tool when you need to introduce some randomness and variation onto a set of objects. To get the tweak tool, you can select it from the toolbox, or you can press the key W on your keyboard when you're not editing texts. Now with the tool, you see a circular area around your cursor. The effect of the tool is strongest near the center of this area and diminishes out towards its edge. You can control the overall strength of the effect with the controls in the tool controls bar, you can increase or decrease the width of the circle at your cursor. You can adjust the force value here to increase or decrease the effect. And you can also use keyboard shortcuts to adjust these values. As long…

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