Welcome to Our Inkscape Online Adventure Homeschool Curriculum

Course Outline for Our Inkscape Online Adventure Homeschool Curriculum

• Lesson 1: Download, install, and run Inkscape
• Lesson 2: Becoming familiar with the Inkscape interface: toolbars, panels, options, color palette, dialogs/panels (such as Layers, Fill & Stroke, and Undo History)
• Lesson 3: Handle documents in Inkscape (new, open, save), set page width and height, use the rectangle tool and fill with various colors
• Lesson 4: Use the selector tool; create polygons; Fill and Stroke dialog, fill, gradient fill, rotate, resize, skew, strokes, stacking order
• Lesson 5: Using layers: create, rename, hide/show, lock, change order, duplicate, delete, move objects, opacity, blending mode, select multiple objects
• Lesson 6: Grouping objects, Ctrl+click to select, ungrouping; zoom and panning, the Objects panel
• Lesson 7: Shape tools: ellipse, star, polygon; global preferences for shape settings
• Lesson 8: Save as pdf; export to png
• Lesson 9: Converting shapes to paths, and introduction to the node tool
• Lesson 10: The snapping toolbar, guides, and grids
• Lesson 11: Using the Align and Distribute dialog to arrange objects
• Lesson 12: Using the pencil tool, setting tool options, smoothing; Ctrl+click; the Tweak tool
• Lesson 13: Using the calligraphy tool, using the tool presets, the mass option, tracing lines to create a hatching effect
• Lesson 14: Using the Text Tool, select fonts, adjust spacing, rotation, convert text to path
• Lesson 15: Using the pen/path tool, straight line and curved paths, node types
• Lesson 16: Path geometry, operations to combine or split paths, Union, Difference, Intersection, Exclusion, Division, Cut, Combine
• Lesson 17: Auto bitmap trace, create a vector version of a bitmap image
• Lesson 18: Manual bitmap trace, manually trace a bitmap image using the pen tool
• Lesson 19: Clip an image to another object
• Lesson 20: Masking objects using white, black, shades of gray, and a gradient
• Lesson 21: Learn tools and/or features not previously covered
• Lesson 22: Using Inkscape’s predefined patterns, create custom pattern, create seamless pattern
• Lesson 23: Creating and using the four types of offsets
• Lesson 24: Learn how to create and manipulate clones of objects
• Lesson 25: Use the Tiled Clones panel to create a set of clones
• Lesson 26: Explore the Inkscape filters
• Lesson 27: Explore Inkscape’s Extensions
• Lesson 28: Practice applying several Live Path Effects
• Lesson 29: The Inkscape Adventure final project: Create the board game design