Inkscape's Equivalent Of The Blend Tool In Illustrator

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This tutorial is for those of you who may be Illustrator users looking to transition over to Inkscape. Illustrator's Blend Tool allows you to make all kinds of creative drawings by duplicating copies of objects along a specified path. Inkscape doesn't have a blend tool, but it does come with a couple of extensions that, when used in tandem, will allow you to mimic the effects of the blend tool in Inkscape.
The extensions we'll be going over in this tutorial are the Scatter extension and the Interpolate extension.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:28 Using The Scatter Extension To Blend Objects
05:31 Using The Interpolate Extension To Blend Objects
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@cooleshaka Ай бұрын

I'm just starting out to using Inkscape. Your channel is a goldmine! Thank you for sharing.

@timetraveller6643 Жыл бұрын

Oh, this is GOLD! Thank you nick. There were ideas I gave up on because didn't know how "scatter" worked, what it actually did, or how to apply it. A thousand new projects just shot through my head! Who named it "scatter"? That's exactly what it's NOT doing. --Molly

@lanezz5832 Жыл бұрын

Sou brasileiro e seus vídeos estão me ajudando bastante com inkscape e assisto legendado obviamente, um salve do Brasil!!

@ayodejijomi4598 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Nick! This was amazing as always! May God bless you

@bazz1376 Жыл бұрын

Hey Nick, another outstanding tutorial for the NICK file. Thank you.

@Ilikewatchingstuff Жыл бұрын

Just started using inkscape and ur channel has helped me alot Thank you so much❤️👌

@sng1188 Жыл бұрын

YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME A LOT SINCE IV'E BEEN USING INKSCAPE FOR MY BUSINESS I TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND EFFORT TO EDUCATE OTHERS. THANK YOU

@frankkante7850 Жыл бұрын

Great work Nik ! Thx

@GraphicDesignStudio Жыл бұрын

Thank you nick. This is awesome

@michaelsalais7393 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nick. One day I hope you can critique a logo I made with Inkscape. Because of the many vids I've watched of yours. I've seen other authors on the subject, but clearly yours are superior.

@rajehfedili5715 Жыл бұрын

i love your tutorials 💪🏻

@fahimshahriar6576 Жыл бұрын

Your video always helpful for me...God Bless you..

@Sewing-Pattern-pixels. Жыл бұрын

Hi Nick, thanks for your tutorial video, very clear and usefully. For the first design, Extension > generate Path > scatter I have to used -70.00 instead of -21.00 in order to get a nice design, maybe it's depended on the size of the object.

@oneoranota Жыл бұрын

It absolutely is. What you are playing with, is a position of the copies relatively to each other.

@salu_mc3 Жыл бұрын

confused but now it all makes sense. Thank you.

@patch2329 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@cindyl3297 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video! Will you make a series of Illustrator tutorials?

@bonnieblue8421 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for the video tutorials. You explain very well. If it’s not difficult for you, can you make tutorials about photo editing in Krita? Thanks in advance.

@hamedrezayi5949 Жыл бұрын

Hi nick how can we make coloring book pages in inkscape ?

@mothilal6479 7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the video. I recently installed Inkscape 1.3. However, the Scatter option is not there under Extensions. Can you please guide how to install it? Thanks.

@glennreffin2568 6 ай бұрын

Alex, the Scatter extension has been renamed. It is now found under Extensions > Generate from path > Distribute along path. The Space between copies setting discussed in the video now has a minimum set to -10.5 after which you cannot go without causing the error message appearing. Hope this helps.

@easydosh73 Жыл бұрын

Ahh c'mon nick, you are truly hero!

@gd3132 Жыл бұрын

Amazing trip

@bawballs Жыл бұрын

Hey Nick. Signed up to your masterclass course last week. Looks great BTW. Nick, is there a way of moving a blended shape. For instance I created a circle like in your video and did a blend of 2 colours. But as soon as it try to move that circle to somewhere else on canvas it reverts back to the solid first colour and the nodes for the blend are back where the circle was before I moved it. I've tried to group and combine but can't figure it out. I was hoping I could blend colours to different shapes and then arrange those shapes to suit my project.

@LogosByNick Жыл бұрын

Hi Kieran, sounds like a setting you have disabled in the Select Tool that pins gradients to the canvas so that they do not move when you move an object. To enable it, grab the Select Tool and look at the tool settings menu bar at the top of the screen. All the way to the right you will see 4 icons/boxes. The third box in from the left will read "move gradients along with the object" when you hover your cursor over it. Make sure that's enabled and try again.

@bawballs Жыл бұрын

@@LogosByNick Thank you Nick. Really appreciate the quick response and help.

@noel7083 Жыл бұрын

Could you do a tutorial about painting in InkScape (If possible)

@BFett-Human Ай бұрын

Could we get this tutorial for version 3.1? I'm having difficulty replicating the results (specifically getting a gradient circle to follow a path). Any help would be greatly appreciated. @Logos By Nick

@kevinhouse7143 11 ай бұрын

What if you want to go back and add or adjust the blend after apply? Is this possible?

@computechtamil7218 Жыл бұрын

❤️

@ahmedzuraif4156 Жыл бұрын

While using the second function Why does some kind of warping occurred in the text that was generated....

@a2teach 11 ай бұрын

which version of inkscape are you using i am using version 1.3 and it keep crashing

@mjail Жыл бұрын

Te amo.

@ethangilham Жыл бұрын

Hi, I have a problem with this. I type out a word, convert it to a path and then duplicate it. Then while selecting both words I open the "Interpolate" menu and tick live preview, only to get "At least two paths need to be selected" even thought 2 paths are selected. Does anyone know how to fix this? When trying to do this on individual letters (which are also paths) it does work however. Thanks.

@Sewing-Pattern-pixels. Жыл бұрын

I got the same problem, but you have to do the follow steps. 1- convert the letters in a path, Path > Object to path. 2- Object > Ungroup. 3- Path > Union. and now you can duplicate the letters with the right click on the letters. 4 - Put appart the letters. 5- Select the two paths 6- Select Extension > generate path > interpolate > select the number of copies you need and the square of Previews. That's it

@ethangilham Жыл бұрын

@@Sewing-Pattern-pixels. Thanks. So basically it only works on individual letters that then you grouped/put into union. It's weird.

@vishal4nw Жыл бұрын

I'm getting an error when using that extension in the new versions of inkscape

@dennyskerb4992 Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@zakidz6716 Жыл бұрын

i got this error whatever the value is

@mitchel9051 Жыл бұрын

bro is inkscape CMYK available now????

@abdurrafayfarooqui907 Жыл бұрын

Yes Nick pls reply him. I also want to know about CMYK. How can we export pdf as printable PDF?

@ishaanparashar3277 Жыл бұрын

@@abdurrafayfarooqui907 YES FOR PDF WE CAN PRINT IT

@logickedmazimoon6001 Жыл бұрын

@@abdurrafayfarooqui907you can chnage the color space, yes

@behramcooper3691 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Affinity Designer does not have the Blend function yet. Thank you Nick for this tutorial.

@TayWm Ай бұрын

for new viewers who can't find "scatter" under extensions>generate from path, it has now been renamed to "distribute along path"

@vincebaker3384 Жыл бұрын

can any one tell me Why does Inkscape 1.2.1 runs considerably slower and is very laggy than previous versions on exactly the same hardware? And What are the system requirements for Inkcape 1.2.1 on windows 10

@softwarelivre2389 Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, but Inkscape is said to run better under GNU/Linux distros (and that's what I'm using currently, and it runs butter smooth on my machine).

@djmtype 11 ай бұрын

Illustrator has had something better for the past 5+ years now - gradient along a path. I don’t understand why Affinity Designer and Inkscape don’t.

@Vanshgamer776 Жыл бұрын

ball is life

@sergkaskalov3983 Жыл бұрын

What should be done if none of the extensions work?

@efrend.2361 Жыл бұрын

That is my problem too, and, some ikscape lovers get offended if you mention such a common problem in the program. I know it's free, and that you can't be demanding, but at least they check those bugs that so many people have, they simply send you to check your PC.

@logickedmazimoon6001 Жыл бұрын

@@efrend.2361because theres a lot of factors that can affect the functionality of something. Asking about your setup is simply the first step of troubleshooting.

@efrend.2361 Жыл бұрын

Inkscape it's terrible. Not a single extension works whit me. Not even one...

@pid1790 Жыл бұрын

depends on your pc

@CTRL_SMarcos Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it''s "terrible" that such a powerful software runs even on a dual core with 2 GB of Ram, extensions included. Take a good look at what's going on with your PC and ask in forums before talking nonsense.

@efrend.2361 Жыл бұрын

@@CTRL_SMarcos Is a software full of bugs, years ago. Sorry, but is ugly.

@Intervaloverdose Жыл бұрын

@@efrend.2361 You must be very beautiful if Inkscape seems this ugly to you.