Inkscape Tutorial || How to Cut Out an Image in Inkscape

hello hardware thrift to you and today I'm gonna be going over how you can cut out objects in Inkscape and use it for some basic photoshopping and this this tutorial is going to be pretty simple pretty straightforward if you've never used Inkscape before it's actually a good starting point to learning some of the tools and different things you can do in Inkscape so today our main goal is we want to take this hat we want to cut it out from the border we got it pulled in with and we want to put it on top of this cat because if you notice right now if we zoom in that this hat has these white bars right here which makes it seem like it doesn't fit on the cat's head very well so we're going to cut that out so we just have the shape of this hat and we're going to put it on the cat's head so we can have a nice cat and a head so we're going to be using three main tools here we're going to be using our generic mouse to drag around and manipulate the objects so make them bigger and smaller same thing with our cat over here and then we're going to be using our edit pass by node tool and we're also going to be using our draw Bezier curves and straight lines tool so we're actually going to start out with that and so with this tool you can left-click and it'll put down a node and from there you can actually start putting down nodes and we want to make them the general shape of this hat and we're gonna put down nodes all the way across it it's gonna take a few seconds every time you place down a node you're going to place it with a right click and then release again and if you notice it'll keep on going I'm clicking some of the corner spots because you'll see why I do this a little later on you keep clicking these corner points and go they're there there and then to finish off this when you connect it to this node right here it'll give you a finished product so now we have a basic outline of the hat but if you notice there's portions of the hat when we zoom in that are kind of hanging out there so we want this line to completely cover that and that's where this nodes or node to path tool comes in so if you notice once we get over a line we can see the nodes so we can grab those nodes and we can move those around if we want as well as we can grab this line and by pushing and pulling and then using these scroll tools right here we can manipulate this line to better fit the shape of our hat so we're going to pull that up a bit over here we're gonna pull this around this corner and this is how you're going to get that general outline that you want for your hat for when you cut it out so we're gonna continue doing that all the way around just get it nice and bezel out there we go we're gonna pull this one in a little bit same with down here I'm gonna pull this out a little bit and then for these larger curves same thing as we did before we're just going to pull them out I'm actually going to pull this note in so that we can take these and round this corner by pulling these in and if you notice we got that corner nice and rounded now so this part is pretty straightforward if you if you don't want to actually mess with the nodes you can also come in and when you're putting down with your Bezier tool you can just follow the lines exactly instead of making these straight lines and then curving them out after you're done so it's another way you can do it it just takes a little bit longer on the initial building of your of your hat so we're gonna scroll in so we can pull this out a little bit better there so it kind of looks like that's getting dipped in perfect we're gonna pull that out pull that out we don't need it to be perfect for now we just want it to look like a hat there we go that one looks good and now we're gonna pull that out actually we're gonna keep that just like it is alright so now we have this shaped outlined we have the shape of the Hat that we want to pull out so what we're going to do we actually have two objects here we have the line we just made and we also have the Hat so we're going to go select both of those now you can see that there's two dotted lines indicating that we have both of those select we're going to go into our objects we're going to go into clip and we're going to set our clip and so now what that does if you notice we only have one object now and everything inside that bezel line or that Bezier line is now cut out so you notice we don't have that white border around the Hat anymore which means we can manipulate it a little bit to fit on our buddy here maybe maybe twist it a bit he's got a little bit of a crooked head so we're gonna double click and then twist pull down some more and there you go you have a cat and a hat and that's just a basic introduction of how we can do that but if you want to go more in depth you can cut out more complicated shapes so like if I wanted to I could cut out this cat and it's just a good start for if you want to start overlaying different shapes on to or overlaying things into other pictures and so on and so forth so I hope you found this short tutorial on cutting out objects in Inkscape useful please don't forget to Like and subscribe and if you have any questions or concerns make sure to leave them down in the comments and I'll do comments section I'll do my best to answer them until next time thank you you

Channel: Leviathan DIY

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Length: 6min 46sec (406 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 19 2018