Inkscape Lesson 4 - Groups, Levels, and Object Selection

[@9crimes3sirens]

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[@TJFREE]

Thanks Shana!

[@OwenIverson]

For grouping, it's not the "ESC" that re-groups them, you have to double-click outside to get out of single-entity-edit mode and go back to them as being a group.

[@TJFREE]

Good call! Thanks for the correction.

[@OwenIverson]

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[@6942pjka]

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[@TJFREE]

Thanks Jake, I appreciate the feedback!

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[@SusanLeger]

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[@nancymc8676]

Thank you so much for these tutorials! They are awesome. For those of us with Macs, instead of Ctrl , use Command. (Command+C instead of Ctrl+C to copy, for example) Instead of alt key, use option key (for example, to select an item that is beneath another item)

[@1980rlquinn]

Thank you! I was already in a bit of shock to see that Alt + drag wouldn't work, and that "Ctrl + D" was supposed to be used instead, and then I thought I was losing my mind when that wouldn't work either.

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[@ab8ug585]

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[@lashley370z]

Excellent tutorials. Very understandable. Good pace. Thank God you have an excellent microphone. Thank you.

[@TJFREE]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@darrellpidgeon6440]

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[@TJFREE]

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[@AwesomeMuslims]

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[@nicholasscaffetta896]

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[@TJFREE]

Thanks Nicholas! I appreciate the feedback.

[@Aye_Sid]

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[@lania9750]

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[@MicTosoni]

9:51: "select all this stuff, hit CTRL + G" and you got a Pacman-Venus Palaeolithic figurine eheheh! Very useful tutorials! Thanks!

[@KSaul-xb2rw]

Thanks for these tutorials! I'm using 0.92.2 on a MacBook and clicking Esc doesn't exit group editing to get the group selection back. However, Ctrl+Backspace(Delete on Mac) or clicking an object outside the group does. It might be because Inkscape is running inside of XQuartz but I'm not sure. While researching this I also learned that Ctrl+Enter is an alternate to double clicking to enter the group.

[@TJFREE]

That's good info, thanks for sharing! I don't use Mac much, so I can't offer a lot of insight. I appreciate users like you sharing these tips!

[@nadiakostina9919]

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[@zainabarshad]

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[@intentionalreps]

Exact Prob I was having. Thanx

[@stevem8ck]

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[@TJFREE]

Great!

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[@TJFREE]

You're welcome. Thanks for the kind words.

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Great videos!! I feel so much more confident with Inkscape!!!

[@TJFREE]

Glad to hear it!

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Awesome tutorials. 🤗. Clear Voice, Teaching by the way which beginneer needs to be taught. Simple And Straightforward.

[@robertsparks2705]

Again thanks. This is so helpful. I did not mind Illustrator until it became a subscription and now I want nothing to do with it. This is a big help.

[@zaugitude]

Great tips about cycling through objects with tab and alt 👍👊🏼🎉

[@debbiemankelow6996]

Great simple explaniations. Thank you.

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Great videos.. have helped me out and saved me a ton of time instead of trying to figure it out myself..

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I love that blur tool.

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[@TJFREE]

That's awesome! Happy to hear you're enjoying the videos!

[@arch523]

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Thank you. Just enough for my old brain to digest in one sitting!

[@PWijekoon]

These are very helpful. Thank you.

[@BELINDASPIRIT]

Thank you so much for this...!!! I have been trying to create patterns to no avail, almost gave up, only to find this video and realise that I was pressing the wrong tab...yep, still learning!!!

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[@shallowwaterwaysshippingpv3018]

Nice software, really loved it to learn. Suggestion: Kindly show KEY-BOARD KEY also on the screen on suitable place so that we can relate it, see it and easily remember the COMMAND.

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[@TJFREE]

I'm glad to hear that!

[@loriwilhelm1548]

I just downloaded this thank you so much great instructions

[@MarkMorgen]

could you go over what happens when you double-click on a group for editing it components and how it affects the group?

[@aykutyldz1538]

thank you very much for this nice tutorial

[@johndrichardson2talks733]

Thank you TJ Great tutorial

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Very nice, very helpful.

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You're welcome, Wesley!

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[@Book-Gnome]

These are awesome tutorials, Thank You

[@TJFREE]

You're welcome, Brian!

[@_tonerider]

The copy option is also in the right-click menu

[@phananhduc3821]

This work so well evem tho the new version is already out

[@TheKeenMechanic]

Thank you

[@EmrahUncu]

When I double-click an item in the group, it ungroups even if I hit the escape key.

[@174temporary]

Awesome tutorials. Question that I hope you see. At 6:58 you say hit escape to return to the group. This doesn't work on mine. I am using a Mac. Is there a key I'm missing or is it an update issue?

[@gopal178]

So good

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[@atiqure2000]

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[@ushaunnamalai4550]

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[@lovestobead]

Great tutorials! My computer doesn’t show all those colors at the bottom. How do you get that to happen? Thanks!

[@victoriamurphy3771]

I love your tutorials and am working on my computer as I watch them to see if I can do what you are teaching. In lesson 4, where you grouped the snowman and then show how to tab to see the shapes drawn and their order, my Inkscape is not showing all the shapes on my screen. I have a square and oval and it will tab thru them but it dies not include the snowman. This is the same as when I hid the oval under the snowman and tabbed to the oval with alt, I was not able to bring the oval to the top of the grouped snowman. There is something going on with the grouped snowman that is preventing these other functions working. Can you help explain what it might be?

[@houstonfirefox]

Excellent tutorial! I like the grouping for sure. Is there any way to apply an animation to all objects in a given named group (i.e. border color) - thank you!

[@cherten1]

Excellent video, I get some much from you

[@technologygeek8757]

you explain very well sir, Thank You!

[@joelecourtois7000]

What video have you maybe made a drawing for a funnel???

[@jonilo8792]

Great tutorials!

[@UkuleleAversion]

8:19 You don't have to keep holding alt. Just making sure you hold primary mouse button while the pointer is over the centre x while moving it out from behind the objects above it.

[@omarmomen701]

awesome tutorial, thank you

[@maddycamburn5104]

So ive been watching your videos and theyre very helpful, however I noticed your toolbars show a lot more options than mine & im trying to figure out how to have mine show more. For instance if I want to change the level of an object I have to go into the object menu and change it from there. I don't have the icon handy on one of my toolbars. Is there a way to change this? I've been trying but I can't figure it out

[@artemiogaming22vods98]

thank you very much!!!

[@TJFREE]

You're welcome!

[@tlhc4818]

good information.

[@afianarohmani1179]

How do you make a coloured object which is transparan with the other, so the object behind still can be seen ?

[@rafa_337]

Comeone Men, other waqy to duplicate an object is to press click-right on the object you want and click duplicate, minute 3:36

[@ji3230]

When there are many layers of groups, I have to click so many times to select one focal object. Is there a way to do the same thing without clicking indefinitely?

[@Geminiced]

How do you use divsion on 2 or more groups at the same time so it divides all at once in inkscape?

[@ABC-mu2xg]

Süper JOB ... Thanks

[@TJFREE]

Yoü're welcome!

[@eunhwajang2352]

This video is so~~ helpful~ Thanks a lot!!! lol

[@TJFREE]

You're welcome!

[@manojkumar-in5jt]

thank you so much

[@nuraxon360]

Bro you are awesome. Want to grow myself as u

[@kenwood7195]

I like Ctrl + C - Ctrl + V better than Ctrl + D because copy and paste is a skill that works across other programs and there is only so much storage capacity upstairs.

[@sinister4lyf]

How can I change my workspace like yours especially the one on the right?

[@giuseppe1912]

Hy TJ, a spend e few hours watching your tutorial on inkscape, but i did't find a way, to do what i want. i have 3 footprint of my dog, in a A4 sheet, so i have the perfect dimension. i would like to "take the best part" from each png, and merge in to one, potencially perfect. as you can image, the picture are not perfect, so they need some adjustment. Can you please, give me a hint?

[@ActorOnTheRoadOfSuccess]

Hi TJ, I'm on a Mac, I can't get my Control + D to duplicate an object. What could I be doing wrong ?

[@suzannefeldman976]

Is there a way to view the individual objects (like on the side panel) that are on each layer?

[@ThePrinceOfSloth]

Gracias muchacho.

[@sidney001]

You kept interchanging the words Level and Layer, so which is it, a Layer or a Level?

[@Kig_Ama]

Is there an option like in powerpoint to align objects?

[@TJFREE]

Yes, along the top menu, Object > Align and Distribute or 'Shift+Ctrl+A'

[@Kig_Ama]

@@TJFREE great, ty.

[@claridge8888]

How do you clear the previous format of shapes? I'm trying to draw a new star, but it comes out with the format of last star I drew, and I can't work out how to clear that formatting, so it can revert to drawing a normal default star. Please help.

[@fundadumlupinar684]

Hello. Thank you so much for your videos. I tried to copy and paste a curved line but it didn't work. So, when I curve a line and then copy and paste it, it paste it as a straight line (even I save the file, it saves as straight line). I couldn't work out the way around this or see it on help page, is there anyway to solve this problem? Thank you so much and appreciate in advance.🙏

[@fundadumlupinar684]

I think I may have worked it out thanks!😅

[@repairandcreate6192]

A couple questions... 1) when you are scaling the object bigger and smaller is it changing the dimensions that it is, or just the viewable size? 2)when you are scaling things up and down in size is there s setting available that keeps the stroke width the same instead of having it scale with the object?

[@kampkrieger]

Pressing ESC does not work for me to leave the group. I am still in the group an can edit the members directly instead of having the whole group selected. Help