Turn images into logos with Inkscape

In this tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can use Inkscape to turn an image into a logo design that can be printed on tee shirts or used in any other way.
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[@howtonothing3556]

only guy i ever needed to learn inkscape

[@Nitralans]

when we needed him the most, he returned, all hail the king of inkscape!

[@kevinfoo8031]

Where Nick aligned the first rectangle to bottom, I dupilcated another then aligned to bottom of the last shape. Made as many needed for the rest without care of spacing, used alt-click and drag to select all rectangles. Used align vertical evenly and they all aligned to bottom of each. Nick is the master of course, I'm only here to contribute.

[@thomasowens5824]

Thanks Nick....spot on.

[@michaelsalais7393]

Just beautiful. Thx Nick!!

[@andersonocardoso2524]

From the bottom of my heart nick, please, consider not move the image/'camera' too much the way this was done in this video if you can in next videos!

[@bernhard2269]

Great design! Printing on a shirt with transparency could be problematic though. Do you know a good compromise to get rid of the transparency but preserve some of the effect?

[@lisamack4492]

You’re wonderful! Thank you for the great inspo and use of pics!

[@witch-daisy]

Keep them coming Nick, always look forward to seeing your great ideas.

[@kevjuha1990]

I learned to make logo's within a couple of days with you video's. You are awesome! Thnx

[@omarbahaa233]

thanks for the guide, I was following along but couldn't find the image!

[@LogosByNick]

I must've forgot. Link has been added to the description.

[@jdrsant0s]

You are the master, Nick. Thanks again. 👍

[@DigitalAugur]

Thank you very much nick for all the past years making inkscape tutorials ! Can you please do a "Inkscape performance optimisation tutorial" please ? After all this years using inkscape i always lost projects because of crashes or freeze so i think its a good idea to have a must have guide for inkscape optimisation. And thank you again for all your videos :)

[@matthewhalo1799]

Saving this for later so I can abuse this power when I don’t feel lazy lol

[@cythree]

Awesome! Thanks Nick.

[@colinturner6628]

Great Video, Thanks

[@logundead]

What's the difference between union and combine ?

[@LogosByNick]

Union is for paths, combine is for merging strokes

[@adeolaojo4603]

Would it have made a difference if you used combine in places you used union? Thanks for your reply

[@Anomander64]

Another great video, but I'm finding the pan and zoom a little distracting.

[@doctormo]

What was the technical difficulty?

[@LogosByNick]

Personal error, nothing Inkscape did

[@krobbeldierschen]

Since you put it on a t-shirt: Not a good idea to use transparency on the gradient! The base layer of a shirt is usually printed in full white and on top of it the actual color is printed. This means that halftransparent pixels will be fully brigt because of the white below. Looks good though :)

[@gormangraphics]

Now in affinnity

[@Raad_Abderrahmane]

هل الألوان صالحة للطباعة أقصد أن هذا RGB

[@andersonocardoso2524]

CMYK are the prefered colours for printing.

[@supermario3460]

9:14 its locks different

[@yahyabawakedl9163]

why when i click on UNION to make all dark lines 1 path , all lines between the first line and the last disappear, THANK YOU🙏🏽

[@pahaahv]

ctrl + A

[@rauhesitten]

Great video. Thanks. One thing: please stop the pan n zoom. It makes watching very difficult. Thanks.

[@McFly_3]

Ummm I think my Inkscape is highly outdated cause it does not look like this

[@pahaahv]

That's definitely a macOS environment. There are also some skin options.

[@McFly_3]

@@pahaahv yea I got it on macOS. But I’ll research those skins

[@FilterYT]

Awesome, thanks Nick!