Timeline for S-shaped(ish) Bezier curve control points? (GIMP)
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| Dec 21, 2020 at 23:02 | vote | accept | Amy de l'ABC | ||
| Dec 20, 2020 at 22:50 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | It's ok. You don't need to do @ to mention me in comments to an answer I posted. I can see them automatically. To be honest with you, although XD is quite nice, I still prefer Inkscape for drawing. Maybe just practice a bit more. It's worth the effort. | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 18:47 | comment | added | Amy de l'ABC | Thanks so much! That's really good to know! Sounds like I maybe should try Adobe XD and then export to Inkscape if I need to do fancier stuff? (Also, FYI, unsure what I'm doing wrong but the site doesn't seem to want to let me @ mention you--it just deletes that part of the comment...) | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 11:40 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @Amydel'ABC - if you want more of an Adobe Pen Tool experience, Adobe has free software called Adobe XD, which is used for mocking up apps/user interfaces/web pages. It's a simplified vector based editor. You can use it to export SVGs. Inkscape has way more features however, and is more similar to Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator doesn't have as good support for SVG standards as Inkscape, but Illustrator is better for print, since it supports CMYK colour. | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 11:24 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @Amydel'ABC Also note that the spiro option creates a Spiro Spline path effect, and although the underlying paths will have handles at nodes, these are ignored by the path effect. In essence, the effect produces the curves. | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 10:45 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | In Inkscape you can click and drag to pull out handles from the first node, without holding down shift, just as you can with any node. The difference holding down shift is it creates a corner node, from which you can pull out handles. Single clicks at a node also create a corner point. Having the spiro option enabled changes the behaviour of the tool entirely. The are no handles when using that option and Shift just creates corner nodes. | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 4:47 | comment | added | Amy de l'ABC | (Can't figure out how to/if it's possible to edit previous comment, so adding a new one. Hope that's okay!) Update: Welp, apparently I'm dumb XD Not only was my Inkscape version WAAAAAY out of date, but I think I may have somehow ended up with the Spiro curve tool selected instead of the normal Bezier one. Still may take a bit of getting used to, but much better! Thanks for your help; I'll give it a proper try now :) | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 4:08 | comment | added | Amy de l'ABC | Hmm...I wonder if somehow my Inkscape is wonky, then, because holding Shift seems to do absolutely nothing most of the time, and then occasionally I get a curve but with no handles that I can see... Also, in the Bezier game I'm pretty sure I was able to click-and-drag pull out handles on the first point I created, and that doesn't seem to happen in Inkscape either. I'm gonna see if there are any updates or anything, but if not, I'm not sure what might be the issue, or if there are free and decent alternatives to Inkscape? | |
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| Dec 19, 2020 at 2:55 | history | answered | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |