How to Make Water Depth Contour Maps with Inkscape and Trace Bitmap

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11 ай бұрын

Inkscape tutorial showing easy design workflow by Rick Johanson in a step-by-step free course on how to make custom water depth map art. Follow along and learn the basics of Inkscape including Trace Bitmap, Drop Shadow, and custom page sizing. Two specials guests make a cameo in this beginner intermediate Inkscape 1.3 Tutorial.
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@zzziiii1111 11 ай бұрын

The stealth appearance, though! :D Really appreciate your detailed instructions. It's fun to learn a skill from someone who actually loves doing it.

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Haha- they snuck in there. I do love making these. Now its a family affair.

@WriterLady 11 ай бұрын

It's incredible, how much effort you put forth so we learn digital art skills & techniques we didn't even know we needed! So much gratitude for your expertise & your willingness to share it. 🙏

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Many many thanks! I'm grateful for the whole Inkscape community.

@graphguy 11 ай бұрын

Ok.. one of these is going up on my office wall!

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Nice! I may do the same!

@robp9129 11 ай бұрын

Another helpful guide Rick; best wishes to you and your family from the UK 🤗👍

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Thanks you!! Cheers!

@zfotoguy71 11 ай бұрын

This would also be handy for people using a CO2 laser to cut out topographical maps.

@ShafaqIftikhar-pw9ld 11 ай бұрын

What can i say another awesome tutorial from a great TUTOR!!!

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@CTRL_SMarcos 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful, thanks for the video 💯

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Was a quick one, but we have to use the time we have. Ha.

@WalidDingsdale 9 ай бұрын

thanks for this great tutorial, very lovely kids

@IronEchoDesign 9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@user-xd9sm8xl8g 2 ай бұрын

thank you!

@IronEchoDesign 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@ptredhead 11 ай бұрын

That looks so good! Thank you. I'm definitely gonna try this. I wonder, can you do that with a topographic map, like a mountain or something showing contour lines? That might be trickier though.

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! It’s a fun little design project. Great idea about trying this with topographic lines. I’ll test it out.

@sumitdadhwal7067 10 ай бұрын

Hi Rick, Thanks for these awesome vidoes. Could you please do a video combining water depth contour maps and land based artifacts (roads, highways, parks etc.)? - A fellow bostonian :) 😀

@NickGrayson15 4 ай бұрын

Awesome guide! I was just wondering if you had a way to do this with a lake?

@kumudumadhawa493 11 ай бұрын

Bro, Your videos are really helpful. I have a request. Can you please make a custom map like custom zoo map, or site map with cartoon illustrations ?

@talk2devid 11 ай бұрын

Can you please create a tutorial about how to recolor a old comics traced image?

@MentallyHellthy Ай бұрын

Can you explain how to get the different depths? What does shallow contour, safety contour, and deep contour mean relative to each other? I can't figure out how to get more than 2-layers. Thank you!

@Mariam-Mina 11 ай бұрын

Nice tutorial!! And your kids are so adorable!! I’m surprised how you managed to do this tutorial with the 2 little munchkins 😅 I lock the door or wait until they go to the school to record my tutorials 😂 I record in 10-15 mins then I take hours in editing, I need to get improved in this 😅

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!! They snuck in for the surprise appearance on this one. I know the feeling, and I usually do lock the door while recording too. And the editing… I need to get faster on that. Whats your channel? I’ll try clicking on your handle and see if it’s there.

@Mariam-Mina 11 ай бұрын

@@IronEchoDesign thanks Rick 👍 youtube.com/@MariomaArt I’m fan with cricut so I do tutorials for cricut design space & Inkscape software but more related to design projects to cut using cutting machine like cricut or silhouette not to design logos or graphics. It’s mainly to make cards, 3D projects like gift boxes, rolled flowers, using glyphs in fonts….etc I’m resin artist too, I don’t do resin tutorials but I use Inkscape to design mandala and cut it with vinyl then attach it to resin wooden boards. They are so cool! I enjoy watching your channel and have been following you for a while 👍

@justsandm 6 ай бұрын

Great video, but do you have a video that explains the what to do next? How to save the individual layers?

@IronEchoDesign 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! All the layers are preserved when saved as an SVG. Are you looking to export layers individually for a cutting machine?

@SOLS_umer 11 ай бұрын

loved it(the video) btw my princpal said can i make a logo for the school like it has a eagle and its a circle logo can you give me some tips or make a vid about it btw i've been using inkscape for not a long time i use it to make logos (can i get a shotout?)

@keyvanhasani1622 8 ай бұрын

Hi. Please do a tutorial on an area that has a concrete dam and a lake behind it in Blender Design.

@IronEchoDesign 8 ай бұрын

That would be cool. I haven't gotten too far in Blender. Still a complete beginner. BlenderGuru has an amazing channel that may help with that.

@stephenbishop85 6 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you! What's the font used at the end?

@IronEchoDesign 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’ll have to double check. I think it is Inter V. Free Google font. There are several weights you can download for free.

@fyxdesign 2 күн бұрын

do you have an alternative to this site? because in my country it does note show any information like the one you did in your project. only US has those information

@dhruvasankanur645 24 күн бұрын

i don't know what went wrong but i am not able to get those different colors / shades in depth. Rick can you please guide. cause when i search for "Crane beach" the result is right , but if i search for different location it doesn't show the depth.

@mathieubaker1548 4 ай бұрын

Is there any reason why i cant make the layers on the lake i want? thanks!

@graphguy 11 ай бұрын

NOAA needs to step up and add right mouse download! With that said Microsoft Edge users have the built in 'Web capture' that works very well and doesn't require another app.

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Seriously! Lets get the data, NOAA! Didn't know about the Edge web capture. Thanks!

@unityindiversity1708 11 ай бұрын

@@IronEchoDesign Firefox and Opera can do the same

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Where have I been? I use Firefox and didn’t realize it has screen capture. Thanks!

@davidhaskin6276 24 күн бұрын

Trying to follow this for lake maps but not getting any contour depth info/lines. Any advice?

@janehellwig6814 11 ай бұрын

Hi Rick! Thanks so much for this and for introducing Crew's Reviews! When we load the website, it says "the layer, ENC, cannot be added to the map" and then shows no detail for Crane Beach or Mentor Headlands, OH lol. We've tried Chrome and Microsoft Edge with no success... Any suggestions?

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, and thanks for checking out Crew's channel! Let's fix this ENC error. Is this message coming up from nauticalcharts dot noaa dot gov /enconline/enconline dot html? I'll try doing Mentor Headlands right now on my computer.

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

I've got it up and Mentor Headlands, OH is working and has really nice depth contours. Want to email me and we can figure it out? johanson.rick at Gmail.

@GalleryAvenueDesigns 10 ай бұрын

Hey Rick, so happy I came across your videos. I love Inkscape but I've noticed that since I did the 1.3 update I can't use the trace bitmap function. As soon as I open it Inkscape crashes every time. Have you come across this issue?

@IronEchoDesign 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! And yes. That happened to me when I moved from 1.1 to 1.2. Instant crash. The advice I got that worked was to do the good-old shut down, restart. Then test Trace Bitmap on a small file size image and do single scan. If that still crashes there might be something worse going on. Hope it can be fixed!

@IronEchoDesign 10 ай бұрын

Also, try it in a new Inkscape window BEFORE playing with any Path Effects. The bug could be in a Path Effect causing trouble to Trace Bitmap.

@GalleryAvenueDesigns 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do

@RahulSharma-mo1kr 6 ай бұрын

Rick, thank you for the most informative video. Can I ask what software you used to capture the screen capture? Thank you.

@1amiguita 6 ай бұрын

I need this answer also, I used the snap tool and don't think that's good lol

@RahulSharma-mo1kr 6 ай бұрын

@@1amiguita Your in the right place as Rick is definitely the one to ask. 🙏🏽

@IronEchoDesign 6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!🙏

@IronEchoDesign 6 ай бұрын

I’ve landed on Camtasia as the best screen recorder for making these tutorials. I can record my voiceover in-window video and the screen share at the same time. Plus the editor tool has all the built in effects I need. Here’s a link if you want to check it out:techsmith.z6rjha.net/ba9x0M

@RahulSharma-mo1kr 5 ай бұрын

@@IronEchoDesign Rick thank you so much. Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

@ninjaziggman Ай бұрын

I can't get it to show me the depths of the water. I'm trying to do Millinocket lake, is there something I'm missing?

@user-gi9nd2jn7d 11 ай бұрын

Hey Rick thanks for the vid. I try the same on NOAA and the ENC layers are not available. Any idea why it isn't there? When I go to the ENC Viewer, the pop up message states: "the layer, ENC, cannot be added to the map".

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Lets try to fix this. Is this message coming up from nauticalcharts dot noaa dot gov /enconline/enconline dot html? If so, what location are you trying to view. I'll try to repeat it on my computer. Thanks!

@user-gi9nd2jn7d 11 ай бұрын

Yes Rick. I checked your screen in the vid and everything looks exactly like your screen.@@IronEchoDesign

@user-gi9nd2jn7d 10 ай бұрын

Hi Rick, they fixed the issue. Things are back to normal. Thanks for looking into it.@@IronEchoDesign

@IronEchoDesign 10 ай бұрын

@user-gi9nd2jn7d Nice! So glad to hear!

@mssbass1 13 күн бұрын

I need lakes

@IronEchoDesign 11 күн бұрын

That makes 2 of us.

@The_Penguin_City 11 ай бұрын

Lo siento, pero eso se hace con un sistema de información geográfico como Grass Gis.

@IronEchoDesign 11 ай бұрын

Gracias! I just Googled Grass Gis and it looks amazing. Going to play with it today. Muchas gracias.

@The_Penguin_City 11 ай бұрын

@@IronEchoDesign It's not so easy my friend. Maybe you must start with QGis from start. This kind of studies, like the one that you are doing require other kind of tools because a map, even one that its purpose is to be informative, must meet some requirements. Datum, projection, scale, north, marginal data, reticule or gradicule, data legend, among many others. Part of my post gradiate research is to investigate ancient lake in Mexico city before Spaniards invade this city. Similar of what you are doing now, but based in sinthetic radar aperture digital terrain models. Greetings from México, congratulations about your beautiful channel.

@The_Penguin_City 11 ай бұрын

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