by Angel135612 » September 4th, 2011, 7:50 am
Yep, I agree, the best way to learn Inkscape is to just try to learn how to do ONE thing. Then build on that. Get one of the tutorials from the BCUK forum, and read it for the basics. Then pick one thing you want to learn how to do, and figure out how. Either ask questions, find a tut or play around in the software to figure it out. Which ever way works for you. Then, learn something else.. and just keep building. That is what I did. I would try to do something, and could never get it to work, but just kept picking up bits and pieces of how to do things in the program when I had time. Then all of a sudden, a light bulb went off, and I figured out how to do traces that actually worked well. LOL
I know I got info from Penny, Gigi, and others, just in general conversations talking about it, that I didn't know how to do before. I was trying to do a trace, and I could never get mine to trace as well as Penny did in her tut. Then one day I was chatting with Gigi, and she mentioned something about viewing in outline mode, that I think Dawn told her about, and now that I learned how to do that, it makes things so much easier. Some times, I'm learning things about the program when I'm not even trying to.. just by reading questions that others have.
I'm sure you can learn the program Kathy, just don't try to learn it all at once... and you will be fine.. and soon you will wonder what took you so long to try it.
Diane in Colorado Springs
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.