Welcome to Our Inkscape Online Adventure Homeschool Curriculum

Course Outline of Inkscape Online Adventure:

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