8
Advanced Shading and Coloring
So far, we’ve been using simple flat colors and a bit of opacity here and there to get the colors and effects we want. Inkscape allows us to do much more than that, fortunately. In this chapter, we will discover many ways to blend colors together in our shapes for even more advanced, realistic coloring.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- The Gradient tool
- Gradient options in the Fill and Stroke dialog
- Mesh gradients
- Patterns
- Using blur for complex shading
- Color blending with blend modes
Technical requirements
You can download the practice files for this chapter from GitHub at
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Design-Made-Easy-with-Inkscape/tree/main/Chapter08 ...
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