Inkscape Tutorial: Colorful Infographic Template

[Music] this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and in today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can design this colorful circle-shaped infographic using Inkscape and I will put a link in the description to where you can download a vector copy of this design in case you'd rather just grab a copy of it instead of following along and creating it with ink escape so I'll go ahead and get started here with Inkscape by the way if you'd like to know how you could update ink scapes appearance with this dark theme and these new icons I'll have a link to that information in the description of the video as well so the first thing we're gonna do is set up our document so we'll go to file document properties you try that again document properties I want to set the display units to pixels and I want to turn off the visibility of the page border and we can close out of that and what we want to do is come up here to where it says enable snapping we want to make sure we have snap custom mode we want that turned on then we'll go to view we're gonna want custom selected you may have to go to view custom first before you'll be able to do that so go to view custom and then turn on snap the custom nodes and then it'll zoom in at 1 to 1 I'll open up the align and distribute menu with this button right here we're gonna want last selected chosen from that drop-down and then I'll open up the Edit objects colors gradients and Stroke menu with that button there so the first thing we're gonna do is create a circle so I'm gonna grab the circles and ellipses tool right here and hold ctrl + shift on the keyboard and click and drag on the canvas to create a perfectly round circle like that and I want to take the opacity of this and bring this down about in half that should be pretty good and then I'm gonna grab the Stars and polygons tool which is over here from this toolbar up here we want to have regular polygons selected we want six corners and rounded and randomized both set to zero and then I'll hold ctrl + shift on the keyboard and click and drag to create a polygon like this where we have the top and bottom edges sitting flat on the horizontal axis we don't want it sitting like this we want it like that with these flat edges going vertically and once we've done that I'll just make that red I'll grab this select tool and just click and drag this towards the middle of the circle and then just click and drag over both of those in the align panel I'll Center it up on the vertical and horizontal axis and then we can click off of that the deselect everything so what I want to do now is grab this polygon and just hold ctrl and shift and grab one of these arrows to scale it up or down whatever you may need to do just to adjust the size of it I don't make it about I'm gonna make mine about that big in relation to the circle because where this red polygon is that's going to be the negative space of the infographic and black area here this is where your text in your icons and all your contents are gonna go so you may want to make it small or large depending on how much content you want to put in this infographic for this tutorial I'll just leave it there like that and once we've done that we can click off the graphic that these select everything I want to grab the Bezier a pen now which is over here where you can press B on the keyboard for that and I want to start on this bottom left corner right here just snap the cursor onto that corner and then click to create a point there and then hold ctrl on your keyboard and just bring this line straight out here going parallel with the bottom left edge of this polygon just hold ctrl and bring it out like that then go ahead and click then we could let go of control and just finish this shape up going around the outside like that and what I want to do is I want to make that green and I want to get rid of that black outline by holding shift and clicking on the X and then I'll bring the opacity of that down in half as well and what I want to do now is create another shape going right through the bottom of this right here so I'm gonna start again at the same point on this polygon the bottom left corner click and hold ctrl and bring the line straight through horizontally like that and click now we collect oil control and just finish up the shape going around the outside like that we'll go back to the Select tool hold shift on the keyboard and click on that green shape that we just created so we have both of these shapes selected and go to path intersection no I'm sorry path difference and then with that new shape selected I'm gonna hold shift click on the circle and go to path intersections so we're left with that shape right there and I'm just gonna make that green for now and what I'll do now is I want to duplicate this shape by hitting ctrl T on the keyboard and I'll make that blue I'll just bring this over here I'll click on this again to get the rotation handles and I'm gonna hold ctrl on the keyboard and grab one of these corner arrows here and just rotate this around while holding ctrl rotate it around clockwise until this flat edge runs parallel with this edge right here and then we can take this shape and just snap it into that area right there and we're pretty much gonna do the same thing to create the rest of these these remaining four shapes so I'm gonna alternate the colors I'm gonna go back to the green shape hit ctrl D to duplicate that click on it again to get the rotation handles hold ctrl rotate it around until the flat edge is parallel with the edge you want to snap it to of the polygon and I'll just go ahead and do the same thing for the rest of these shapes right here you should pretty much be able to pretty much be able to get the idea from there and one more take that rotate it around and there we go so what we want to do now is take this polygon in the center and just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that and I'm going to click and drag over all of these shapes and bring the opacity of it all the way off and now we can start coloring these in individually I'm gonna click off the graphic to deselect everything I'm gonna start with this screen shape over here on the left I'm gonna make this a mid shade of blue we'll go with something like that they'll take this next blue shape right here I'll make this a lighter shade of blue maybe something like that maybe something a little more vibrant that's pretty good I'll take this shape I will make this yellow I'll take this one make this orange just going in accordance to the design I had in the thumbnail this is though similar to the color scheme I used for that design I'll take this one I will make this red and then I'll take this one down here and I will use a violet or purple shade maybe something like that looks and what we want to do now is let me click off of this to deselect everything we want to put some drop shadows to the right of these shapes right here or coming from the flat side of the shape in order to make it appear as if it's lifting off the page a little bit like these each of these segments are layered above each other so to do that I'm going to click and drag over all of these I'm going to duplicate them by hitting ctrl D on the keyboard let me come over here and make them black and I want to turn off snap cusp nodes we want to turn that off what we're gonna do next and over here where it says blur I'm gonna give that a little bit of a blur maybe 1.4% and then I'll click on this again to get the rotation handles and I'm just gonna grab this corner arrow I'm just going to rotate it over clockwise a little bit maybe something like that maybe I'll give this a little more of a blur I'll go with 3.3 that's pretty good click off the graphic to deselect everything and what I want to do now is I want to grab one of these colored shapes in there but in order to grab them I'm gonna have to click on the black shape first and then hold alt and click on it again an order for it to grab that shape down there and you'll know it's grabbed that shape when you look down to this little stripe in the bottom left corner where it selects the color it shows you the color of the object you have selected and once you have that object selected you can hit ctrl D to duplicate it and hold shift and click on the black shape before it in the order of the objects here and go to object clip and say and I want to do the same thing right here I want to take this blue object hit ctrl D to duplicate it hold shift click on the black object that precedes it object clip say and I'm gonna go through and do this to each shape in order object clip set same thing with the orange piece here and finally ctrl D to duplicate object clip set and what we want to do now is I want to click on this one object right here this black object this little drop shadow and I want to give this a grading so I'm going to under the fill tab on a click where it says linear gradient and I'll press G on the keyboard to get the gradient tool and I'm going to take the black stop and put this towards the corner right here snap it onto the corner you might want to turn the snap to custom nodes back on I'm gonna snap that onto the corner and then take the transparent stop and bring this out over here and I'm gonna go around and do the same thing I'm gonna click on this shape give it a linear gradient snap the black stop onto this corner and take the transparent and bring it out to about here and I'll do the same thing over here and you should pretty much get the idea I'm going to go through and do this to each of these shapes and once you've done that you might want to go to each different shape and adjust the degree of which its blurred because sometimes it doesn't like on the lighter shades here it shows through more on the lighter shades so you might want to increase or decrease it in order for it to look consistent all the way around so I'll go and adjust these a little bit I'll give this a little little actually that looks pretty good as it is and over here again I'm going to turn down the blur a little bit to make it more visible I'll do the same thing over here and that should pretty much do it for that segment all we have to do next is just fill in our content so to do that is pretty self-explanatory you just grab the the text tool click on the canvas to you get your looking text and I hit point 0 1 for the first segment I'm gonna change the font of that oops grab that I'm gonna change the font of that to wow that's incredibly big ok I change the font to that salado make that heavy apply grab the select tool and what I want to do now is I'm just gonna I'm just gonna generate some dummy text or lorem ipsum text to do that I'll go to extensions text and lorem ipsum and number of paragraphs one two and two go ahead and click apply and this is just pretty much placeholder text that you see on like a lot of stock photo sites and you know website templates and stuff like that it's gonna hold ctrl + shift to scale that down let me click and drag over both of those objects and I want to line I want to align the left edges like that just move this down to zoom in and out I'm holding ctrl and rolling up and down the mouse wheel to move the page I'm pressing down the mouse wheel and moving your mouse and let me grab the text tool I'll put this out here like that just press Enter just to get these all on different lines that's pretty good right there I'll take both of these and I'll put them in here let me scale that down a little bit you'll start this one right here make that white and I'll just hit control D to duplicate that put this over here control D to duplicate with this one over here and obviously they're not all number one I'm gonna go back and change them click off of that to deselect everything and now I could just grab the text tool and go back and change those numbers make that two make that three four what happen in there okay make that five and six I'll press one of the keyboard to zoom at to 100% that should pretty much give you an idea of how you can go about filling in the contents you could even go and put little icons and imagery in there and you can even put like little notes going around the outside here and pretty much do whatever do whatever you'd like with it from there so that's how you can go about creating this colorful circle infographic using Inkscape again if you'd like to download a copy of this file I will have a link to that in the description of the video so if you have any questions let me know and as always thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Logos By Nick

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Keywords: inkscape, inkscape tutorial, inkscape infographic, colorful infographic, inkscape infographic template, nick saporito, logos by nick, logosbynick

Id: WM2enc0pgls

Length: 13min 6sec (786 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 13 2018